Example sentences of "[art] foreign [conj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He joined Scott and Moffatt as an assistant in 1841 , but by the time of the Foreign and India Office commission , he was probably working on a freelance basis , as he was not mentioned by Jackson , nor was he included in a list of members of the office sketch club in 1866 . |
| 2 | If so , her utterances are covered by the advice of her UK ministers , notably the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 3 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 4 | To ask the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary if he will make a statement about the diplomatic bags which have been lost in Wandsworth prison . |
| 5 | I was accompanied to New York by my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 6 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom House of Commons on April 4 , and approved at its second reading on April 19 , following the announcement in December 1989 by Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , that full British citizenship would be given to some 225,000 people in the colony in order to restore confidence there in the wake of the military repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in China in May-June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ; 37122 ] . |
| 7 | In early January the Prime Minister and the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary ( Douglas Hurd ) had each visited the Gulf and surrounding areas : Major on Jan. 6-9 to meet members of the British armed forces and to hold discussions with the Amir of Kuwait , King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and Mubarak , and Hurd on Jan. 10-14 for talks in Bahrain , Qatar , the United Arab Emirates , Jordan and Turkey . |
| 8 | Qian Qichen , the Chinese Foreign Minister , held talks in London on March 9 with John Major , the United Kingdom Prime Minister , and Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 9 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office sees the gesture as ‘ one small but symbolic way of rebuilding some of the bridges destroyed after Tiananmen Square ’ , a diplomat said . |
| 10 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 11 | Government policy towards Argentina and the Falkland Islands was never formally discussed outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after January 1981 . |
| 12 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 13 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said yesterday that padlocks securing a barrier at Orford Ness , former home of a top secret defence establishment , had been severed with bolt cutters on at least two occasions during the past six months . |
| 14 | The National Trust is presently negotiating to buy the land from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) which runs a BBC World Service relay station sited on the ness . |
| 15 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office had rather greater concerns than Paul Fabian and his tiny High Commission and Residency on the seafront of Nuku'alofa . |
| 16 | From our side , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been very firm too . |
| 17 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
| 18 | In the United Kingdom , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is the Central Authority but ‘ other authorities ’ designated for England , Scotland and Northern Ireland discharge the practical functions , and all are more closely court-related officers ( e.g. in England , the Senior Master of the Supreme Court ) . |
| 19 | The request was addressed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which is the central authority of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Convention . |
| 20 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 21 | In relation to Somalia and the present litigation , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has on three occasions responded to inquiries by solicitors and Mr. Richards has also conveyed to the court a further communication . |
| 22 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 23 | On 20 February 1992 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote again to More Fisher Brown . |
| 24 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 25 | The statements of fact in the letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are confirmed by the other evidence that is before the court concerning the actual situation in Somalia . |
| 26 | This report , like the letter from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , refers to the various ‘ factions . ’ |
| 27 | " The Foreign and Commonwealth Office want us to take a Danish biologist for two or three days next month . |
| 28 | If this was not the primary motivation within the Treasury , then it certainly was amongst those in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who were keen not to be ‘ out of step ’ in Europe . |
| 29 | The answer given by Tristan Garel-Jones , a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , was instructive . |
| 30 | As early as 4 April 1990 there was the following exchange between him and Francis Maude , then Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office : |