Example sentences of "secretary of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the Secretary of State tell me how local authorities will do what he describes ? |
| 2 | Can the Secretary of State tell us the real social cost to our country of the devastation of our manufacturing industry and our economy ? |
| 3 | Can the Secretary of State tell us something about the effect of the council tax on the agricultural community ? |
| 4 | Can the Secretary of State tell us , three years after Clapham , what the total cost is of implementing the Hidden recommendations to make our system safer ? |
| 5 | Can the Secretary of State tell us how many people might be involved in this so-called transfer fee racket , which seems to be difficult to administer ? |
| 6 | In all cases there are simple rights of appeal to the secretary of state to enable him to resolve any disputes between a district and a region . |
| 7 | Moreover , he is told that the date of the first review is related to the length of time the Secretary of State decides he must serve for retribution and deterrence , and that the judicial view as to this period is a factor taken into account in making the decision . |
| 8 | Will the Secretary of State take it from me that the people of Northern Ireland will appreciate his expressions of sympathy and those of the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) , directed to those who suffered in the terrible massacre that took place last night and to the relatives of the person who was murdered this morning ? |
| 9 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 10 | Given that it is only a few months since the Secretary of State appointed him under a two-year contract , will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement to the House next week on the matter ? |
| 11 | In that sense , if my logic is okay so far , and it is the amendment to the use classes order which has significantly shifted how we regard employment development for planning , I wondered if the justification for the forty three per hectare , on the grounds that the Secretary of State imposed it , actually holds water , these days ? |
| 12 | Yet that clear vision of Pius XI 's last years seems to have been lost when his Secretary of State succeeded him as pope . |
| 13 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 14 | TUC research officer Simon Jones said : ‘ We understood the Secretary of State to give us an assurance that the investment plans would continue . |
| 15 | ‘ The Secretary of State made it quite clear earlier in the year that he would not extend the deadline , ’ she said . |
| 16 | In further Parliamentary answers given in March and October 1985 , the Secretary of State made it clear : ( i ) that if the tariff was to be 20 years or more , there would be a local review committee review after 17 years ; and ( ii ) that the procedure announced by Mr. Brittan in November 1983 applied to discretionary as well as to mandatory life sentences . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State made it clear that after the first application to the local review committee there should , before he ordered release , be a further consultation with the judges ‘ to satisfy the requirements of the section . ’ |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Hornchurch ( Mr. Squire ) and the Secretary of State made it perfectly clear that the Government believe that the fairest and best means of raising local government finance is through a property tax . |
| 19 | In his ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter the Secretary of State tells us that the uprating of student grants in 1990-91 was over and above the extra money made available through student loans . |
| 20 | To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ? |
| 21 | Will the Secretary of State tell us how many ideas from the Liberals and others he has included in the Bill ? |
| 22 | Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating my constituent , Archie Heptinstall , on his 80th birthday this week ? |
| 23 | Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating the 200 people who will be sleeping out in Glasgow on Friday night to highlight the plight of the homeless ? |
| 24 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 25 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 26 | If district councils in Northern Ireland are to have a meaningful role in promoting tourism and job creation within their areas , can the Secretary of State give us an assurance that he will ask the planners to deal more sympathetically with applications that have district council approval for facilities to cater for the tourists who are coming now and the many more that we expect in the future ? |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman conceded that it was an idea worth considering , whereas the Secretary of State mocked it from the outset . |
| 28 | If that is not queue-jumping , what does the Secretary of State call it ? |
| 29 | We joined CCW in a successful appeal to the Secretary of State to get it ‘ called in ’ , following which it was withdrawn . |
| 30 | They are able to acquire land by compulsory purchase , by voluntary agreement or by the Secretary of State vesting it in them . |