Example sentences of "mr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The night before the protest rally Mr Baker pulled back on the destruction order he 'd originally announced , ’ Kevin explained . |
| 2 | According to Mr Baker , Thorn 's ground-based radar activities would dovetail with Ferranti 's airborne radar and result in a formidable force in European defence electronics . |
| 3 | Mr Baker said that Washington was prepared to use military force to oust General Manuel Noriega , but on America 's own terms and timetable . |
| 4 | You do n't do so on the basis of someone else 's plans , ’ Mr Baker told the US Senate finance committee . |
| 5 | Mr Baker 's comments yesterday implied that the US government would be prepared to use its troops to back a Panamanian coup , but not this coup . |
| 6 | Speaking to the Senate Finance Committee yesterday , Mr Baker said that a rouble convertible with other currencies was ‘ necessary ’ to generate market competition within the Soviet Union and to integrate the country 's economy with that of the rest of the world . |
| 7 | US officials said this did amount to a description of a rouble gold standard , but emphasised that Mr Baker was not prescribing or even recommending policy to Moscow . |
| 8 | They said Mr Baker was simply listing one possibility among a number of other courses open to Mikhail Gorbachev in his restructuring programme . |
| 9 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 10 | ' In his comments on the Soviet economy to the Senate Finance Committee yesterday , Mr Baker rejected the idea of early Soviet membership of international economic institutions such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank . |
| 11 | Mr Baker said it would be ‘ exceedingly difficult ’ for Mr Gorbachev to revitalise the Soviet economy but it was premature to predict failure . |
| 12 | Many in the US were keenly awaiting the outcome : Mr Baker had made several statements expressing Washington 's desire for Israel to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on elections . |
| 13 | So all the more thanks for Question Time ( BBC 1 ) , showing simultaneously on the other side , in which Mr Baker had no choice but to sit opposite Arthur Scargill and John Smith , all marshalled impartially by Peter Sissons , controversially and expensively replacing Sir Robin Day . |
| 14 | Mr Baker had said that industrial sponsors would pay ‘ all or a substantial part ’ of the capital costs . |
| 15 | Sir Cyril Taylor , the Government 's adviser on CTCs , who had earlier been successful in persuading Mr Baker to commit more government funds to the 20 schools , had been hoping to get more money for a new round of schools . |
| 16 | ‘ You do not commit American lives on somebody else 's time frame , somebody else 's plan and somebody else 's schedule , ’ said Mr Baker . |
| 17 | Replying to common criticism that Margaret Thatcher tended to be a one-woman band , Mr Baker said on BBC television 's On the Record : ‘ I think there will be a growing amount of Cabinet discussion . |
| 18 | Mr Baker also conceded ‘ there will be in the 1990s inescapable areas of expenditure where there has got to be increases , for example , in caring for the elderly ’ . |
| 19 | Mr Baker failed to end speculation about opposition from Sir Alan Walters , the Prime Minister 's economic adviser , to last week 's 1-point increase . |
| 20 | Last night , Mr Baker dismissed questions about the possibility that interest rates could be raised again and refused to be drawn on whether the pound 's dip below DM3 on the exchange markets during the day signalled a change in policy . |
| 21 | Mr Baker made it clear that the leadership was determined to use the conference — under the slogan ‘ The right team for Britain 's future ’ — to lift the flagging morale of supporters and raise the party in the opinion polls . |
| 22 | Mr Baker said Mr Lawson 's speech would be ‘ well received ’ because the party would understand the problems the Government was facing . |
| 23 | Mr Baker said : ‘ There is no black cloud over me . |
| 24 | Mr Baker proposed a meeting with Israel 's Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , and his Egyptian counterpart , Esmat Abdel-Maguid , after Israeli leaders last Friday rejected Egypt 's invitation to meet a Palestinian delegation in Cairo . |
| 25 | Sources close to the Prime Minister , Yitzhak Shamir , said while he welcomed greater US involvement , he had misgivings about the wording of Mr Baker 's proposals , presented orally , because they did not ensure a clear-cut Israeli veto power . |
| 26 | Mr Baker adopted the Henry V model for his official morale-boosting speech from the conference platform . |
| 27 | People were asking whether the Government had got the economy right , Mr Baker said . |
| 28 | When Mr Baker quoted Henry 's words before Agincourt — ‘ He which hath no stomach to this fight , let him depart ’ — it was seen , not as an attack on Labour , but a slight on the Chancellor who had decamped from the conference for Blaby . |
| 29 | Throughout his performance , Mr Baker allowed a carefully oiled strand of hair to fall over his forehead , clearly an attempt to steal the crown from the famous golden locks which thrilled successive Tory conferences . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher has a new party chairman , Mr Baker , who worked for Mr Heath , and in former days was a notorious wet . |