Example sentences of "government department " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative government , through its Irish Office secretary , George Wyndham , then indicated its intention of reforming the Irish system and devolving power to local , lay control , working in partnership with a central government department . |
| 2 | It would be able to ‘ require each government department to review its policies , practices , and existing and proposed legislation ’ . |
| 3 | But Soderstrom , introducing the songs set by set , was good company ; the recital hall at Blackheath , rescued from years of abuse by the government department that used to inhabit it , had a good sound and an airy Victorian grace ; and Roger Vignoles , the accompanist , was as clear and gifted as ever ; so the capacity audience wound up feeling happy , especially when treated to confident versions of Lehar 's Vilja Song or My Lips They Kiss So Hot . |
| 4 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 5 | The setting is Room 133 : the stores branch of a vast government department in Wellington , New Zealand . |
| 6 | It remained an integral part of a government department but with an attempt to try to introduce accountable management and run it in a businesslike fashion . |
| 7 | ‘ No social services or Government department will deny that everyone is of equal value , ’ says Mencap , ‘ but the services do n't support that . |
| 8 | This was partly the result of good news such as winning the contract for the government department data network and a voice network for the department of social security . |
| 9 | The Lord Chancellor 's Department had twice the rate of resignations of any other government department , he said . |
| 10 | At the beginning of February , his organisation , formerly a government department , was turned into a nominally independent company . |
| 11 | John Bowis of Battersea would like to see London get its own government department , like Wales and Scotland . |
| 12 | Yet in spite of all this , a Treasury paper was circulated which sought further public spending cuts that would affect every government department . |
| 13 | Not that the other parties are n't full of the sweetest intentions — Mr Major 's determination to preserve the right of women to earn £2 an hour can not be doubted , nor can the sincerity of Mr Ashdown 's belief that women 's concerns should permeate every government department . |
| 14 | At the touch of a button , the metallic strip on an identity card will surrender every scrap of information about us stored by any government department , as well as whatever ‘ confidential ’ and uncheckable information may have been collected by secret means . |
| 15 | The Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force , meanwhile , will be turned into a civilian government department so it can continue operations , primarily air-sea rescue , after the handover . |
| 16 | The Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force , meanwhile , will be turned into a civilian government department so it can continue operations , primarily air-sea rescue , after the handover . |
| 17 | During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance . |
| 18 | In the federal parliament a Walloon deputé asks a parliamentary question about the nationality of staff in a government department , eager to establish that there is a fair balance . |
| 19 | Recently , the Treuhandanstalt , the government department responsible for selling off East German industry , was at the centre of a scandal as its officials were found to have been pocketing the proceeds . |
| 20 | University graduates are another obvious source and in Britain are headhunted , initially under another government department 's name , to sound out their loyalty and motivation . |
| 21 | No inquiry is to be carried out on behalf of any government department unless you are satisfied that an important public interest bearing on the Defence of the Realm , as defined in Paragraph 2 , is at stake . |
| 22 | I he particular definition of confidential information in this Act is information given by a central government department on terms forbidding disclosure to the public , or information , the disclosure of which , is forbidden by statute or court order . |
| 23 | By the end of the inquiry , he had cross-examined nearly every witness from either the nuclear industry or a government department and delivered vast reams of his own evidence on every subject covered , some amounting to several hundred pages of closely-typed script . |
| 24 | Support for this approach came from the government department responsible for assessing safety in the nuclear industry — the Health and Safety Executive , which incorporates the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 25 | Each transaction — of which the original owners remained in ignorance — had involved the transfer of money from one Israeli government department to another . |
| 26 | It was as if in some government department in Washington , Damascus , Paris , Jerusalem , Rome or London , there were people who understood the true meaning of this military involvement and were trying to square the adventure with history . |
| 27 | The selection criteria of children is laid down by the government department appropriate to education and health . |
| 28 | problems arise when an institution — particularly a government department or a hospital — is offered for sale with the carrot of planning permission to build in the grounds . |
| 29 | Britain does not have a national police force under the control and direction of a central government department , any such notion having been rejected by the Royal Commission on the Police in 1962 . |
| 30 | Confidential information is that supplied to the Council by a government department on terms which forbid the disclosure of that information to the public , or information which by statute or court order must not be disclosed to the public . |