Example sentences of "[adj] secretary at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an untypically uncomfortable Foreign Secretary at the despatch box yesterday . |
| 2 | I despaired when I heard Sir Geoffrey Howe , who was Foreign Secretary at the time , speak at the Tory Party Conference in October and heard him repeat the same old stock phrase : Britain will never make a deal over its hostages in Lebanon . |
| 3 | Mr Sheppard , who qualified as a chartered secretary at the beginning of his career , believes their skills will become highly relevant during the 1990s . |
| 4 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 5 | During the years between 1901 and 1910 he served as commissioner in Nanking and Hangkow and as chief secretary at the inspectorate-general , Peking . |
| 6 | On arrival in Johannesburg , the first thing I noticed was a young , fresh , smiling face , who turned out to be the Second Secretary at the Consulate . |
| 7 | David Curry , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food , concluded that the balance of opinion was against the regulation and significant amendments would have to be made to the proposal to make it acceptable . |
| 8 | Changes to UK pesticides legislation to enable the retrieval of unapproved pesticides from farms have been announced by David Maclean , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 9 | Contributors include the Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , David Maclean , as well as experts who have been closely associated with the Survey over many years . |
| 10 | In David Lloyd George 's coalition government he was successively parliamentary secretary at the newly created Ministry of Labour ( 1916–19 ) and the Board of Trade ( 1919–20 ) , and first secretary of the mines department ( 1920–2 ) , acquiring experience of industrial relations which was again called upon during the renewed industrial unrest of 1925–6 . |
| 11 | President Jawara dismissed Lamin Keba Saho , the Minister of Information and Tourism , on May 3 , 1990 , replacing him by James Alkali Gaye , a former parliamentary secretary at the External Affairs Ministry . |
| 12 | Mr Anthony Nelson ( Chichester ) , a former merchant banker , also ends his exile on the backbenches by becoming Economic Secretary at the Treasury . |
| 13 | David Checketts , who was Prince Charles 's private secretary at the time , was also dubious . |
| 14 | He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department of Energy in April 1985 , and PPS to Leon Brittan , then Trade and Industry Secretary in September the same year . |
| 15 | As a young man he found ungainful but instructive employment as assistant private secretary at the Colonial Office ( 1892–5 ) . |
| 16 | In the ensuing Parliament he served as a private secretary at the Colonial Office . |
| 17 | The message was from his private secretary at the Ministry . |
| 18 | If any member wishes to nominate a candidate for election to the Council , please write to the Assistant Secretary at the above address for a nomination form and guidance note . |
| 19 | As a result , the DES set up a study group under the chairmanship of Stephen Jones , at that time an assistant secretary at the DES and now Assistant Provost of the City of London Polytechnic , both to suggest a fairer way of allocating the 1981–2 pool and also to come forward with longer-term recommendations , based on unit costs within the institutions . |
| 20 | The other linguists all retained lasting interest in their subject without building careers on it : Lorna Bottomley joined the temporary Civil Service ( Ministry of Education ) after the war , enjoyed educational administration and in 1947 moved to become Assistant Secretary at the Westminster Medical School where she remained contentedly until retirement in 1982 . |
| 21 | Evans was arrested in August , 1990 , when he was First secretary at the London passport centre . |
| 22 | In 1915 Scott became honorary first secretary at the British embassy in Rome , and in 1918 married Lady Sybil Marjorie Cutting ( 1879–1943 ) , daughter of Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe , fifth Earl of Dorset , bencher of the Inner Temple , and widow of William Bayard Cutting , secretary to the United States embassy . |
| 23 | A first secretary at the Netherlands embassy in Tunis , Robert-Jan Ackerman , was killed outside his home on Feb. 27 by shots fired from a waiting car . |
| 24 | According to the report , details of the " blacklist " had been passed to British intelligence officials by the former first secretary at the Chinese embassy in London , Feng Baosheng , who had defected to the UK in mid-March . |
| 25 | Ali Rajavi , a first secretary at the Iranian embassy in London , was ordered to leave the United Kingdom by Aug. 25 , as announced on Aug. 14 , in retaliation for the expulsion in July of Geoffrey Brammer , a UK diplomat in Tehran [ see also p. 39027 ] ; on Aug. 15 the Iranian government ordered an Indian national employed as an accountant at the UK embassy in Tehran and two UK citizens to leave the country within one week , accusing them of involvement in " illegal activities " . |
| 26 | Michael Clark , first secretary at the Canadian High Commission in London , admits to being " horrified " by some of the logging practices he has seen and says that the dispute between his government and the campaigners is not about the importance of conserving ancient forest but about how much of it should be conserved . |
| 27 | On , former secretary at the maltings , gave birth to a 7lb 8oz baby boy named . |
| 28 | Dennis 's last years as general secretary at the BMC — already personally unhappy for him because of his divorce — were made professionally difficult by the unprincipled , sustained and often personal vendetta conducted against him by the man termed , in this book 's account of the period , as ‘ the BMC 's tame Rottweiler ’ . |
| 29 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 30 | Brigadier Scott , 52 next month , is depute military secretary at the MoD and also Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Scots Guards . |