Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] service " in BNC.

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1 The ex-Labour PM , now 77 , joined the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh for the traditional service .
2 Rebecca West referred in 1913 to health visitors as an ‘ inadequate and slightly offensive substitute offered to the poor woman for the skilled service the rich can command ’ .
3 The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time .
4 About 30 close friends and family were present for the 40-minute service at Putney Vale Crematorium , south-west London .
5 They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA .
6 For the Colonial Service , this was something entirely new .
7 Selection procedures in general were rough and ready , perhaps because selection was scarcely the mot juste : oversupply of suitable candidates was not a problem for the Colonial Service until the 1930s , when years of misleading propaganda about difficulty of entry , combined with economic depression , had done their work .
8 All this was to change with the advent of Sir Ralph Furse , who from 1919 to 1948 was in sole charge of recruitment for the Colonial Service .
9 We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury .
10 The Pay Research Unit for the civil service was abolished , as was pay bargaining for schoolteachers , and the role of Wage Councils was reduced .
11 I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s .
12 The father 's preparation for the Civil Service Examination — probably as rigorous an academic test as the external London matriculation examinations of the first forty years of this century — had given him command of three languages , Latin , French , and German , and a powerful interest in political and philosophical topics .
13 Edward was still living at home , preparing without a coach for the Civil Service examination .
14 Edward returned to his ‘ little study at home ’ and , with her encouragement , began serious study for the Civil Service examination .
15 The pioneering general pension scheme was , however , for the Civil Service : first established in 1810 , by , 1859 a full pension scheme allowed retirement at sixty .
16 My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 .
17 They were used to store such items as candles , dustbins and ashtrays for the Civil Service .
18 ‘ A cheap and cheerful service at one moment in the day for typists , and perhaps a more luxurious service for the civil service and businessmen who might travel … earlier or later than the typists ’ — Transport minister Roger Freeman 's blueprint for the rail service of the future , January 1992 .
19 They both started by declaring a moratorium on building for the civil service , so time went by and little advance was made .
20 This development is , I believe , traceable to the seminal case of Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service .
21 In Council for Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service ( H. L. , 1984 ) the House of Lords went some way towards the view that they could control the way the prerogative was exercised .
22 This enables the Court to review the decisions of government ministers , inferior courts , tribunals and other administrative bodies to ensure that they do not act illegally , irrationally , or commit some procedural impropriety ( per Lord Diplock in C. C.S. U. v. The Minister for the Civil Service ( H.L. , 1984 ) .
23 In Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service ( H.
24 See also C. C.S. U. v. Minister for the Civil Service ( N.L. , 1985 ) .
25 The dominance of the Treasury in the determination of public sector spending priorities looks set to continue until better management information systems are available for the civil service .
26 Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 ; [ 1984 ] 3 W.L.R. 1174 ; [ 1984 ] 3 All E.R.
27 Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 ; [ 1984 ] 3 W.L.R. 1174 ; [ 1984 ] 3 All E.R.
28 see Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410G .
29 ( 2 ) If a decision-maker establishes a procedure or practice for the making of decisions , which gives advantages to those affected by them , he creates a legitimate expectation that he will follow that procedure or practice in relation to any particular case , unless or until he gives notice of intention to change the procedure and an opportunity for those affected to make representations : see again Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 408G. ( 3 ) A decision-maker is required to adopt a procedure for decision-making which is fair in all the circumstances .
30 Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 ; [ 1984 ] 3 W.L.R. 1174 ; [ 1984 ] 3 All E.R.
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