Example sentences of "[was/were] secretary of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were Secretary of State for Energy in –79 were n't you , when the Government was first formed . |
| 2 | On this occasion , he said that if he were Secretary of State he would introduce compulsory competitive tendering only in extremis . |
| 3 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 4 | That was to read oddly ten years later when Crosland was Secretary of State for Education and Science . |
| 5 | He pinpoints the beginnings of the contemporary resurgence of this theme as Sir Keith Joseph 's speech to the pre-School Playgroups Association on 29 June 1972 , when he was Secretary of State for Social Services . |
| 6 | BACK in 1975 , when Reg Prentice was Secretary of State for Education and Science ( remember ? ) , |
| 7 | Who was secretary of state for trade in Mrs Thatcher 's first Cabinet ? |
| 8 | The first warning bell was sounded in July 1977 in Education in Schools : a Consultative Document issued when Shirley Williams was Secretary of State . |
| 9 | LEGA emphasised the need for an objective appraisal of a prospective co-operative 's commercial prospects : and was critical of the attempt made on Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn 's insistence when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , to rescue the Scottish Daily News , Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Ltd ( KME ) , and Meriden ; and to make the co-operative form the instrument of rescue . |
| 10 | When I was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry most of those Departments were in London . |
| 11 | Lord Ennals was Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976–86 , and Opposition Spokesperson on Health in the House of Lords from 1986–91 . |
| 12 | Given the comments of the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , when he was Secretary of State for the Environment , that national parks were the jewels in the crown , does the Minister not think it fair that that should apply to the entire United Kingdom , not least to my constituency which contains Loch Lomond which is facing ecological disaster as a result of the political intransigence of the blockheads in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh ? |
| 13 | When Mr. Millan was Secretary of State for Scotland he administered them in exactly the same way as that for which he criticises us . |
| 14 | When Mr. Millan was Secretary of State he was punctilious in operating a system that he now condemns . |
| 15 | I observed the way in which the Commissioner concerned applied the rules when he was Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 16 | It goes as far back as to when Lord Ennals was Secretary of State . |
| 17 | When I was Secretary of State for Education and Science I recall being concerned about the implications of some methods of teaching reading if they are followed too acutely — in other words , without a balance of reading methods . |
| 18 | If anyone needs to be convinced about the need to release the money for grants , it is the hon. Gentleman 's right hon. Friend , Commissioner Millan , who is now attacking the additionality rules that he defended when he was Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 19 | It is 20 years since the previous Prime Minister , when she was Secretary of State for Education , promised universal nursery education for all three to five-year-olds whose parents desired it . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State for Education and Science sits on the Treasury Bench , treating us over this Bill just as he did when he was Secretary of State for Health . |
| 21 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 22 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |