Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] secretary at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young man he found ungainful but instructive employment as assistant private secretary at the Colonial Office ( 1892–5 ) . |
| 2 | It was an untypically uncomfortable Foreign Secretary at the despatch box yesterday . |
| 3 | He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department of Energy in April 1985 , and PPS to Leon Brittan , then Trade and Industry Secretary in September the same year . |
| 4 | Certainly Sir Robert Morant , the powerful Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education , argued strongly that organizing a juvenile employment service was part of the education process and as such should be in the hands of his department . |
| 5 | Questioning of the effectiveness of the accepted methods , and the justification for them , was not confined to penal reformers , being shared by no less a figure than the all powerful Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , Sir Charles Cunningham . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , East ( Mr. Healey ) was one of the main authors of that doctrine in the 1960s and today it enjoys some credibility due to the efforts of the present Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence , who has argued clearly for the theory of flexible response in a series of public lectures and articles . |
| 7 | President Jawara dismissed Lamin Keba Saho , the Minister of Information and Tourism , on May 3 , 1990 , replacing him by James Alkali Gaye , a former parliamentary secretary at the External Affairs Ministry . |
| 8 | Sir David Serpell , a former permanent secretary at the Department of Transport , was asked by Transport secretary David Howell to study ways of running British Rail with ‘ improved financial results ’ . |