Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] the secretary " in BNC.

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1 If future arrangements were inadequate , my right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State would undoubtedly use those powers .
2 At that time the Hon. Gentleman expressed the hope that between then and Report his Hon. Friend the Minister would look into the matter , talk to his right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and decide that it was more logical to have one body looking after all transport issues in Scotland .
3 Can he assure me that , if he has not already done so , he will send a copy of that report to our right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment ?
4 My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community .
5 I will draw my hon. Friend 's suggestions to the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport .
6 My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is doing all that he can within Europe to achieve the speedy adoption of a Europewide directive , on which Great Britain has been in the lead , to get our Western European car manufacturing colleagues to do exactly the same .
7 The figure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment gave included those who might be affected in other ways by premature closure .
8 Does my hon. Friend accept that the fears raised in some people 's mind by the White Paper have not been entirely quelled by the reassurances that he and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State have given ?
9 Will my right hon. Friend today find time to join my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science in condemning Labour and Liberal Democrat councils , such as Nottingham , Derbyshire and Richmond , which have blocked the distribution of the parents charter ?
10 The report that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State published yesterday is extremely important .
11 I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will be happy to see the hon. Member concerned .
12 I am especially pleased to hear that he now supports the tests introduced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science .
13 If my hon. Friend will be patient , I think that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment will shortly have some comments which will please him .
14 With regard to the example that the hon. Gentleman has given , if there is any question of the law of the land not being obeyed I shall ask my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment to look into it .
15 I will certainly pass it on to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport .
16 I emphasise that we believe , as my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State has said , that top-up fees should be unnecessary because we have planned , and continue to plan , to provide sufficient public funding to support the expansion of high-quality teaching in our universities .
17 Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he or my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment had a meeting with business leaders to discuss the policy of the minimum wage , they would tell both the House and the country what business leaders had to say about the damaging effect on jobs that such a minimum wage would have ?
18 The roads between Swindon and Gloucester , however , are the responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State .
19 I welcome the efforts that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science is making to improve the quality of education in this country .
20 As my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science will no doubt point out in due course , Lambeth spends less than its standard spending assessment on education .
21 In our schools , the reforms introduced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and his predecessors are bringing results .
22 I have no doubt that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science will have more to say about those matters later in the debate .
23 My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State 's tackling of the vested interests in education and the Government 's push to put children first — individual children , which means putting parents alongside them — is to be applauded .
24 But my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science and I were aware of some uncertainty about the place of adults within the new policy framework and the arrangements that would apply to them .
25 My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science made clear on 24
26 I have dealt at some length with the arrangements for mandatory support because they have been in the limelight recently and because they are the direct responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State .
27 Concern has been expressed about the letter sent to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport by Senor Carlo Ripa di Meana .
28 From the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State , it is clear that he regards it as vital that King 's Cross should go ahead as an essential part of the entire project .
29 On 20 September , my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science asked the review body to submit its first report in January 1992 , making recommendations on teachers ' pay and conditions in the year commencing 1 April 1992 .
30 Before my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State makes the order giving statutory force to the 1992 schoolteachers ' pay and conditions document , he is required under the 1991 Act to consult interested parties on the review body 's recommendations on the Government 's proposals for implementation .
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