Example sentences of "secretary [prep] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been in constant contact with the Home Secretary as negotiations have become increasingly difficult but he welcomes the announcement of a Judicial Inquiry . |
| 2 | The US Deputy Secretary for Energy has described the Passamaquoddy scrubber as " creative and innovative . |
| 3 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 4 | Prison Channing Wood was informed that , following consultations with the trial judge and Lord Lane C.J. , the Secretary of State had decided that the first review of his case by the local review committee would be in April 1995 at the nine-year point of his sentence . |
| 5 | A company spokesman emerged to insist the Secretary of State had heard ‘ no new compelling arguments for changing the status quo . ’ |
| 6 | For a moment I thought that the Secretary of State had reached his peroration . |
| 7 | And the Secretary of State had declared what might otherwise be regarded as a powerful if not irresistible force would be met by the immovable object of US resolution . |
| 8 | I wish to add that , even if it had been suggested that the Secretary of State had erred in law in this respect in the present case ( and no such suggestion was made ) , any such submission would have had to be founded upon evidence of the relevant provisions of Swedish law , and no such evidence was before the Divisional Court in the present case . |
| 9 | A letter from the Secretary of State had arrived withdrawing his approval for the closure in order to allow him to consider views brought to his attention by a Regional Councillor and by the local MP . |
| 10 | Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination . |
| 11 | This reserved money was offered in the form of education support grants ( ESGs ) of up to 75% of the cost of each project , in areas of education that the Secretary of State had deemed to be important . |
| 12 | To enable the Chief Executive to meet the performance requirements contained in this Agreement , a gross total of £1,392.8 million will be made available to the Agency , being the sum for which the Secretary of State has gained the approval of Parliament under Vote 2 of the 1993–94 Supply Estimates for the Employment Department Group . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has ensured that that is not the case , and that we will have an establishment of 63,500 , because that figure is more in line with the actual number of people available , willing and able to serve . |
| 14 | The new Secretary of State has recognised what we said all along should be the right and reasonable level of development in Hampshire . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman appears not to understand the vast opportunities that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced today and the profits that Scotland is getting . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State has noted the panels suggestion that the boundaries of the Greater York area should be outside the York greenbelt area . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State has argued today that at least part of the money saved has been spent on other benefits and he has implied that on balance , people are no worse off — a familiar argument . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State has argued that this is nearly a four percent increase . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State has toed his party 's line but undermined confidence in the health service . |
| 20 | The secretary of state has given the Joint Consultants Committee ( JCC ) an assurance that the Department of Health will deal firmly with specific cases of abuse that are notified to the department , and , indeed , certain trusts have already been made to reverse inappropriate appointments . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State has given nothing today but bland generalities , and the situation will continue as it is until there is a change of Government policy . |
| 22 | These include land designated for compulsory purchase , or allocated or defined by a development plan for any functions of a government department , local authority , statutory undertaker , or the National Coal Board , and land on which the secretary of state has given written notice of his intention to provide a trunk road or a ‘ special road ’ ( that is , a motorway ) . |
| 23 | In the exercise of that power , the Secretary of State has transferred many such functions to Securities and Investments Board Ltd . |
| 24 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 25 | Certainly the Secretary of State has indicated that , so there 's going to be quite a lot of time for legislation and , and more importantly , time for discussion about the correct legislation . |
| 26 | British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out . |
| 27 | Since November 1983 , the Secretary of State has sought the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge on the period necessary for retribution and deterrence . |
| 28 | The Act of 1967 does not specify at what stage , or how often or in what form the consultation is to take place , but the subsection implies that it should be after the Secretary of State has received the recommendation of the Parole Board . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State has asked it to advise specifically on the whole curriculum context within which work on individual foundation subjects should be carried forward . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State has asked the Employment Service to continue to improve the standard of service it offers in accordance with Citizen 's Charter principles and the expectations of its clients . |