Example sentences of "secretary of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I begin by repeating the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North on 14 January , that in an organisation the size of the health service , which deals with so many patient contacts , it should not be surprising — indeed , it should be welcomed — that we do not seek to impose total uniformity on every single decision that is made about the treatment of patients across the country . |
| 2 | As this is likely to be the last Scottish Question Time before the general election , will the Secretary of State indulge in a deathbed conversion and recognise the frustrations and hopes of the Scottish people about the present constitutional set-up ? |
| 3 | Given the Government 's stress on education selectivity and exclusivity in the national curriculum and in the league tests , did the Secretary of State insist on a special emphasis on educational special needs when he commissioned his report into primary education last week ? |
| 4 | Will the Secretary of State respond to a question that I have put several times since the Select Committee on Science and Technology in another place produced its recommendations for the Government ? |
| 5 | Meredith ( 1984 ) had not been alone in calling for the Secretary of State to reply within a specified length of time . |
| 6 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunninghan ) said , the Secretary of State spoke for a long time — until about 6 o'clock . |
| 7 | Will the Secretary of State think for a moment about the effects of NHS trusts on the low-paid hospital staff , who are just as essential as medical staff in the running of the hospital ? |
| 8 | We expressed our reservations about the conditions attached to the pay review body — both the preconditions and the ability of the Minister or the Secretary of State to interfere at a later date . |
| 9 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) . |