Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] the [adj] gentleman " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
2 | But I can tell the Hon. Gentleman that sufficient time will be given to take all such considerations properly into account . |
3 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman about the review , which was commissioned in 1989 . |
4 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that his local authority of Dumbarton will benefit . |
5 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
6 | At present , other matters are proceeding , but I can tell the hon. Gentleman — I am grateful to him for seeking clarification — that in respect of a further order for type 23s , I expect that to be at a broadly similar interval comparing this with the previous order that was placed . |
7 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the offshore safety division is a separate , discrete , independent division of the Health and Safety Executive . |
8 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that that will continue . |
9 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that , to use the time-honoured phrase , we have no present plans to undertake such an exercise . |
10 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that the terms and conditions of junior doctors will continue to be negotiated nationally . |
11 | I can confirm the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about the protocol . |
12 | I think that I can satisfy the hon. Gentleman . |
13 | However , I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there was a substantial increase in funding for each training and enterprise council this year on the year before . |
14 | I do not have the figure to hand , although I can assure the hon. Gentleman that it is a great many more than in 1979 . |
15 | I can assure the hon. Gentleman that his concerns are well reflected in all the discussions between operators and Ministers . |
16 | Bearing in mind the £45 million which this country has given since April , I can assure the hon. Gentleman that we will continue to play our part . |
17 | I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales . |
18 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
19 | The most comforting assurance that I can give the hon. Gentleman , which I am sure that he will welcome , is that the results of the study will be made public . |
20 | I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested . |
21 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
22 | I have already explained that the most important change that we have made is to shift the balance between what is paid centrally and what is paid locally , so I can answer the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
23 | I can offer the hon. Gentleman the reassurance that he seeks . |
24 | Mr. Walker : I can understand the Hon. Gentleman expressing his concern about the opting out of hospitals in rural Wales , having looked at some of the press comments on the proposals . |
25 | I can help the hon. Gentleman by saying that we believe that we are on schedule for the introduction of the council tax in April 1993 . |
26 | Perhaps I can help the hon. Gentleman . |