Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] at [art] [adj] office " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a Mr Carpenter at the Foreign Office , we deal with him … ’ |
| 2 | He had been Liberal Unionist Chief Whip , with Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office , First Lord of the Admiralty , Milner 's successor in South Africa , and a ditcher over the House of Lords . |
| 3 | A new Secretary of State , Ian Lang , had replaced Malcolm Rifkind at the Scottish Office . |
| 4 | For two years , Clark , William Waldegrave at the Foreign Office and Nicholas Ridley at the Department of Trade and Industry wrangled in secret memos over the morality of turning a blind eye in exchange for information . |
| 5 | Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 . |
| 6 | The man on the Belgium desk at the Foreign Office was being driven to despair by what was coming out of Brussels at the moment but Henry saw no reason to say so . |
| 7 | Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 . |
| 8 | In this way Pope John circumvented the nineteenth-century thesis , still defended by Cardinal Ottaviani at the Holy Office , that ‘ error has no rights ’ . |
| 9 | The replacement of Geoffrey Howe by the little-known John Major at the Foreign Office in July 1989 added to the uncertainty , as did Major 's replacement by Douglas Hurd three months later . |