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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Anthony Nelson ( Chichester ) , a former merchant banker , also ends his exile on the backbenches by becoming Economic Secretary at the Treasury . |
| 12 | David Checketts , who was Prince Charles 's private secretary at the time , was also dubious . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a young man he found ungainful but instructive employment as assistant private secretary at the Colonial Office ( 1892–5 ) . |
| 15 | In the ensuing Parliament he served as a private secretary at the Colonial Office . |
| 16 | The message was from his private secretary at the Ministry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | Brigadier Scott , 52 next month , is depute military secretary at the MoD and also Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Scots Guards . |
| 23 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 24 | Lord Young declined to comment on the revelations contained in the memorandum or the confirmation by Sir Peter Gregson , permanent secretary at the DTI , that Britain has kept the deal secret because ‘ it would severely damage our relations with the European Commission ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Robert Sheldon , chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee , said yesterday he was seeking more documents from the Department of Trade after Monday 's hearing when he cross-examined Sir Peter Gregson , the permanent secretary at the ministry . |
| 26 | MPs have decided to call Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , chief executive of the Universities Funding Council , and Mr John Caines , permanent secretary at the DoE , to a hearing on February 28 . |
| 27 | MPs are also to summon Sir Clive Whitmore , Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , to explain repeated failures by his ministry to curb TV licence evasion . |
| 28 | AND THERE goes Terence Heiser , Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ( KCB ) , Permanent Secretary at the Environment Department , appearing before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 29 | For some , that means macroeconomics : hence the promotion of Sir Terence Burns to be permanent secretary at the Treasury , after 11 years as the government 's chief economic adviser . |
| 30 | Mr Richard Wilson , a deputy secretary in the Treasury , is to succeed Sir Terence Heiser as Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment in June . |