Example sentences of "[verb] the secretary [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We last met the Secretary of State in May 1991 . |
| 2 | The Act of 1971 , empowered the Secretary of State to ‘ give guidance ’ to the Authority with respect to their statutory functions . |
| 3 | The Act empowered the Secretary of State to put a limit on the amount if in his opinion the amount proposed to be raised was ‘ excessive ’ according to principles he determined which were to be the same for all authorities falling within the same class . |
| 4 | It empowered the Secretary of State for Scotland to issue regulations governing the conduct and the responsibilities of local education authorities . |
| 5 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
| 6 | It empowered the Secretary of State to enter into long-term agreements to fund city technology colleges ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | The request which was made to me in Committee was to bring forward amendments to enable the Secretary of State to set up a funding council , on the clear understanding that no commitment was being given that we would wish to do such a thing . |
| 8 | In paragraph 78 , the report records the Secretary of State as saying : ’ the view that we took was that the technology that was involved was reasonably well proven We were perfectly satisfied that it would work . ’ |
| 9 | Some of these remain , but most of the Central Government grant to local authorities is now in the form of the rate support grant and a grant known as a block grant , which involves the Secretary of State deciding the total sum to be paid to all local authorities ( after consultation with the local authority associations , and approval of the House of Commons ) and its apportionment . |
| 10 | I shall answer the Secretary of State 's question . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the ERA has given the Secretary of State considerable powers . |
| 12 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 13 | The British government has backed down under pressure from the House of Lords over a controversial proposal that would have given the Secretary of State for Education formal responsibility for the way in which universities are run ( see Nature 362 , 275 ; 1993 ) . |
| 14 | The Minister said in Committee that he believed that if abuses were proven the Secretary of State would be able to act . |
| 15 | This plan was an impossibility from the outset , and after several months of confused meetings of everyone concerned at County Hall , I went with two or three others to see the Secretary of State to recommend strongly that one single statutory authority should be appointed to deal with the area . |
| 16 | The chamber of commerce , the local authority , the trade unions and the Members of Parliament came down to London to see the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | I am pleased to see the Secretary of State for Social Security in his place , because he has said that the decision in January 1991 to stop such payments was taken because ’ It has never been the intention , nor is it sensible , that in the generality of cases Housing Benefit should be available as an alternative to income support ’ . |
| 18 | Gladstone and Russell became Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary respectively , for the second time , and Sir Charles Wood , a former President of the Board of Control , became the Secretary of State for India . |
| 19 | When Harold Wilson was re-elected in September 1974 , she again became the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security . |
| 20 | It named the Minister of Education ( who became the Secretary of State for Education and Science in 1964 ) as the arbiter in disputes between LEAs , LEAs and governors , and LEAs and the public . |
| 21 | The LEA 's decision to allow the child 's admission to the school was challenged by the Commission for Racial Equality , which asked the Secretary of State to use his default powers in the 1944 Act and quash the LEA 's decision , on the ground that the decision was racist and would encourage other parents to pursue the same course as Mrs C and for the same reason . |
| 22 | She asked the Secretary of State to hold an inquiry at which parties could be heard and witnesses examined . |
| 23 | Our President , Lord Williams , asked the Secretary of State for Wales to prevent the discharge of contaminated rock and muds during Hamilton 's recent drilling operations . |
| 24 | About 12 months ago , I asked the Secretary of State a question about the safety of the lighting on the M6 . |
| 25 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 26 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |
| 27 | I was therefore interested to read the reply of the then NIO Security Minister , Michael Mates , to a Parliamentary written question by Ulster Unionist Home Affairs spokesman , David Trimble in Hansard earlier this year , when Mr Trimble asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he intends to end slopping-out at each of the province 's prisons . |
| 28 | The Home Secretary said , ’ Go , ’ the chairman of the Conservative party said , ’ No , ’ and , in a bold act of leadership , the Prime Minister got the Secretary of State for Energy to call a few favourite newspapers and leak the news that there would be no November election — government by seepage . |
| 29 | I have heard the Secretary of State for Scotland and some of his ministerial team say that local income tax would not benefit certain groups of people — teachers and hospital porters , for example . |
| 30 | Does the Minister recognise that the people of Wolverhampton do not regard the Secretary of State for the Environment as environmentally benign , certainly over the problems that they face with the new standard spending assessment announced in the past few days — |