Example sentences of "[art] foreign and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 26 the Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Minister Faris Buwayz , son-in-law of President Elias Hrawi , and the Phalangist leader Saadeh , who was Minister of Telecommunications and Posts , resigned from the Cabinet . |
| 2 | If the foreign and defence policy-makers may be accused of insufficient attention to the economic aspects of their policies , it is far from clear that the economic arguments were pressed in a manner most likely to bring about a re-assessment of overseas commitments . |
| 3 | One idea is that before or at the next French-British summit in late spring , the foreign and defence ministers on both sides will meet to review progress . |
| 4 | In particular , ‘ Interception may be necessary to protect our national security at international level to provide secret intelligence in the foreign and defence areas . |
| 5 | Over the years he had forged links with the Foreign and Home Offices , the crucial departments of Military Intelligence and the Government 's secret services . |
| 6 | Dr Mark Almond , lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College , Oxford , makes the point that the centre party , though only supported by 11 per cent of the vote , has controlled the foreign and economics ministries for the last generation . |
| 7 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 8 | If so , her utterances are covered by the advice of her UK ministers , notably the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 9 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office sees the gesture as ‘ one small but symbolic way of rebuilding some of the bridges destroyed after Tiananmen Square ’ , a diplomat said . |
| 10 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 11 | Government policy towards Argentina and the Falkland Islands was never formally discussed outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after January 1981 . |
| 12 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 13 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said yesterday that padlocks securing a barrier at Orford Ness , former home of a top secret defence establishment , had been severed with bolt cutters on at least two occasions during the past six months . |
| 14 | The National Trust is presently negotiating to buy the land from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) which runs a BBC World Service relay station sited on the ness . |
| 15 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office had rather greater concerns than Paul Fabian and his tiny High Commission and Residency on the seafront of Nuku'alofa . |
| 16 | From our side , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been very firm too . |
| 17 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
| 18 | In the United Kingdom , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is the Central Authority but ‘ other authorities ’ designated for England , Scotland and Northern Ireland discharge the practical functions , and all are more closely court-related officers ( e.g. in England , the Senior Master of the Supreme Court ) . |
| 19 | The request was addressed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which is the central authority of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Convention . |
| 20 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 21 | In relation to Somalia and the present litigation , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has on three occasions responded to inquiries by solicitors and Mr. Richards has also conveyed to the court a further communication . |
| 22 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 23 | On 20 February 1992 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote again to More Fisher Brown . |
| 24 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 25 | The statements of fact in the letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are confirmed by the other evidence that is before the court concerning the actual situation in Somalia . |
| 26 | This report , like the letter from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , refers to the various ‘ factions . ’ |
| 27 | " The Foreign and Commonwealth Office want us to take a Danish biologist for two or three days next month . |
| 28 | If this was not the primary motivation within the Treasury , then it certainly was amongst those in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who were keen not to be ‘ out of step ’ in Europe . |
| 29 | The answer given by Tristan Garel-Jones , a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , was instructive . |
| 30 | As early as 4 April 1990 there was the following exchange between him and Francis Maude , then Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office : |