Example sentences of "the ministry [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restrictions by the Ministry on grant made available for new appointments also meant that vacancies between the resignation of one tutor-organiser and the arrival of a successor could be prolonged . |
| 2 | The Board resolved to refuse the suggestion from the Ministry on behalf of the electors , and on the grounds that it was necessary to exercise tight control of expenditure in the public services ! |
| 3 | I have never known a Member of Parliament so unwilling to accept the work that has been done by the Ministry on behalf of his constituents . |
| 4 | Although some progress had been made by January 1990 in dissolving the Ministry for State Security ( the " Stasi " ) [ see pp. 37107-08 ; 37170 ] , the extent to which prominent people had been involved with the Stasi remained a contentious issue [ ibid . ] . |
| 5 | On March 19 the federal Cabinet decided not to implement a planned amnesty for former East German agents of the Ministry for State Security ( " Stasi " ) [ see p. 37828 ] . |
| 6 | As well as taking remedial measures , the Broads Authority will be monitoring the situation together with the National Rivers Authority and the Ministry for Agriculture , Food and Fisheries . |
| 7 | A series of underground nuclear tests has left groundwater in several regions of Kazakhstan contaminated by strontium-90 and caesium-137 , according to the Ministry for Ecology and Biological Resources . |
| 8 | First , the fragmentation of the political authorities means that the unions may be negotiating separately with a number of different state agencies : for example , with the sponsoring ministry and the ministry for labour or employment . |
| 9 | George Kiejman became Minister-Delegate attached to the Ministry of Justice , and Bruno Durieux , a member of the Centre of Social Democrats ( CDS ) , became Minister-Delegate for Health attached to the Ministry for Solidarity and Social Protection . |
| 10 | For this purpose , new institutions were created , such as the Ministry for Information and the War Museum , and special administrative officers appointed , like John Buchan and Lord Rothermere in the First World War , Sir Kenneth Clark in the Second . |
| 11 | For this purpose , new institutions were created , such as the Ministry for Information and the War Museum , and special administrative officers appointed , like John Buchan and Lord Rothermere in the First World War , Sir Kenneth Clark in the Second . |
| 12 | Proposals for the licensing system will now go forward to the ministry for approval . |
| 13 | On Jan. 19 the Ministry for Research , Technology and the Environment confirmed that two inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , at the invitation of the Algerian government , had visited the nuclear reactor at Ain Oussera , 140 km south of Algiers , which had been under construction since 1986 with technical assistance from China . |
| 14 | The officials dismissed were : Zdzislaw Miedziarek , Secretary of State , Jozef Lochowski , Franciszek Gajik and Jerzy Modrzewski , Under-Secretaries of State , and Krzysztof Szewczak , Director-General , all at the Ministry of Industry , and Janusz Padlowski , Plenipotentiary in the Ministry for Co-operation with Trade Unions and Self Management Organisations . |
| 15 | Among those the delegates met were the Adviser to the President on International Affairs , the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence , the Inspector General of Police , and the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation . |
| 16 | However , the Ministry of Defence decided to prosecute Hamadi Jebali . |
| 17 | There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner . |
| 18 | The Ferranti source said : ‘ Lord Weinstock ( GEC 's managing director ) would like to be in the position where he was able to say to the Ministry of Defence , ‘ Look , I am the only person who can rescue Ferranti from collapse . ’ |
| 19 | British Aerospace , the lead British contender , may have the backing of the Department of Trade and Industry but it is almost certain to face fierce opposition from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 20 | Sir Colin is the former head of export services at the Ministry of Defence , having been seconded in 1985 from British Aerospace |
| 21 | The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems . |
| 22 | His time in the Ministry of Defence was one of constant retrenchment — the withdrawal from East of Suez , the aircraft carrier decision , the scrapping first of the TSR2 aircraft project , to be replaced by American F111s , themselves then also cancelled . |
| 23 | The British vessel , Endurance , an ice-patrol ship reinforced with helicopters and missiles , was kept in Falklands waters despite pressure from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 24 | Government ministers tried to stem the tide of mounting public expenditure : John Nott 's replacing Francis Pym at the Ministry of Defence in January 1981 was thought to be a pointer in this direction . |
| 25 | Information to the public was carefully processed and censored by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 26 | In the course of their researches , Les and Pam discovered that the Ministry of Defence ( Air ) had no list of Far East survivors nor even a complete list of those captured by the Japanese . |
| 27 | The monument is fortuitously under the windows of the Ministry of Defence and under the gaze of Lord Trenchard whose statue was placed in Whitehall Gardens in 1956 . |
| 28 | In fact no permanent institutional reform came from the moves , and soon after the 1983 election Parsons and Jackling left , the latter returning to the Ministry of Defence . |
| 29 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 30 | At one level the Ministry of Defence argument about the dollar costs of overseas expenditure was not absurd . |