Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the [adj] office " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last October Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , minister of state for health and social work at the Scottish Office , announced what was described as ‘ the last of the major building blocks for full implementation of the government 's community care policy ’ — the finance for provision of community care by local authorities in the coming year . |
| 2 | Simon 's burgeoning career at the Medical Office in the 1860s coincided with the consolidation of the status of the medical profession , both as a privileged domain of expertise and as a distinctive cultural grouping within the middle-class . |
| 3 | With the exception of a brief sojourn at the Foreign Office , Major 's other posts have been economic ( chief secretary to the Treasury from 1987–89 and chancellor of the exchequer from 1989–90 ) . |
| 4 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
| 5 | The fruit of his labours for the RIIA was a volume of nearly 2,000 pages ( An African Survey , 1938 ) which immediately became the basis of intensive discussion at the Colonial Office and which secured for Hailey , until 1943 , an unrivalled position of influence in the Office 's debate on the future of Africa , which he himself had been instrumental in bringing into being . |
| 6 | There is a childlike belief at the Foreign Office that if it does not admit to the existence of MI6 , foreign governments will believe Britain does not spy on them . |
| 7 | As a young man he found ungainful but instructive employment as assistant private secretary at the Colonial Office ( 1892–5 ) . |
| 8 | In the ensuing Parliament he served as a private secretary at the Colonial Office . |
| 9 | Francis Pym , who had given a somewhat hesitant performance at the Foreign Office in the Prime Minister 's view , was removed from his post immediately after the election . |
| 10 | Maclean , a Cambridge contemporary of Burgess , fellow Apostle , and fellow communist , had recently been made head of the American department at the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Eden was probably referring to the unfortunate statement from Henry Hopkinson , junior minister at the Colonial Office , that Cyprus would ‘ never ’ be granted full independence , and a domestic slip-up : an announcement that the manufacture of heroin would cease entirely in the UK ( the medical profession subtly pointed out its legitimate uses as a drug ) . |
| 12 | The junior minister at the Scottish Office , Allan Stewart , tells me that his role in matters such as mink in Shetland is no more than that ‘ essentially of a confirming authority ’ . |
| 13 | Donald Mackay , a former junior minister at the Scottish Office , who was secretary of the Wheatley Commission which planned the 1975 council reforms , said it was far too early to undertake another reorganisation . |
| 14 | He was replaced , not by the senior figure of Denis Healey , who was chained to his oar at the Treasury in the aftermath of the IMF cuts , but by the youthful and little-known figure of David Owen , Crosland 's junior minister at the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | And Douglas will retire soon , I think , so we can have new blood at the foreign office . |
| 16 | My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office . |
| 17 | A senior researcher at the Meteorological Office said in January 1991 that " we can not prove that the rise was caused by the greenhouse effect , but it is likely " . |
| 18 | He dined regularly with Sir Robert ( later Baron ) Vansittart [ q.v. ] , permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1937 ; Vansittart described the political intelligence from SIS in 1936 as ‘ invaluable ’ ( then probably a somewhat exaggerated estimate of its real significance ) . |
| 19 | Vansittart 's successor as permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office , Sir Alexander Cadogan [ q.v. ] , complained that ‘ we had no means of evaluating their reliability . ’ |
| 20 | CIVIL servants are to hand a 3500-signature petition to their employers when they stage an anti-privatisation protest at the Scottish Office tomorrow . |