Example sentences of "[adj] secretary at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an untypically uncomfortable Foreign Secretary at the despatch box yesterday . |
| 2 | I despaired when I heard Sir Geoffrey Howe , who was Foreign Secretary at the time , speak at the Tory Party Conference in October and heard him repeat the same old stock phrase : Britain will never make a deal over its hostages in Lebanon . |
| 3 | Mr Sheppard , who qualified as a chartered secretary at the beginning of his career , believes their skills will become highly relevant during the 1990s . |
| 4 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 5 | During the years between 1901 and 1910 he served as commissioner in Nanking and Hangkow and as chief secretary at the inspectorate-general , Peking . |
| 6 | David Curry , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food , concluded that the balance of opinion was against the regulation and significant amendments would have to be made to the proposal to make it acceptable . |
| 7 | Changes to UK pesticides legislation to enable the retrieval of unapproved pesticides from farms have been announced by David Maclean , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 8 | Contributors include the Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , David Maclean , as well as experts who have been closely associated with the Survey over many years . |
| 9 | Mr Anthony Nelson ( Chichester ) , a former merchant banker , also ends his exile on the backbenches by becoming Economic Secretary at the Treasury . |
| 10 | The message was from his private secretary at the Ministry . |
| 11 | David Checketts , who was Prince Charles 's private secretary at the time , was also dubious . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As a result , the DES set up a study group under the chairmanship of Stephen Jones , at that time an assistant secretary at the DES and now Assistant Provost of the City of London Polytechnic , both to suggest a fairer way of allocating the 1981–2 pool and also to come forward with longer-term recommendations , based on unit costs within the institutions . |
| 14 | The other linguists all retained lasting interest in their subject without building careers on it : Lorna Bottomley joined the temporary Civil Service ( Ministry of Education ) after the war , enjoyed educational administration and in 1947 moved to become Assistant Secretary at the Westminster Medical School where she remained contentedly until retirement in 1982 . |
| 15 | Dennis 's last years as general secretary at the BMC — already personally unhappy for him because of his divorce — were made professionally difficult by the unprincipled , sustained and often personal vendetta conducted against him by the man termed , in this book 's account of the period , as ‘ the BMC 's tame Rottweiler ’ . |
| 16 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 17 | Brigadier Scott , 52 next month , is depute military secretary at the MoD and also Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Scots Guards . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In February 1940 the Chief Medical Officer at the Board of Education , Sir Arthur MacNalty , outlined to Sir Maurice Holmes ( Permanent Secretary at the Board ) his response to such criticisms . |
| 20 | Lord Young declined to comment on the revelations contained in the memorandum or the confirmation by Sir Peter Gregson , permanent secretary at the DTI , that Britain has kept the deal secret because ‘ it would severely damage our relations with the European Commission ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Robert Sheldon , chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee , said yesterday he was seeking more documents from the Department of Trade after Monday 's hearing when he cross-examined Sir Peter Gregson , the permanent secretary at the ministry . |
| 22 | Sir Frank Cooper was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence during the Falklands crisis . |
| 23 | The rest included such experienced practitioners as Dr A H Marshall , a former treasurer of the city of Coventry , and T Dan Smith , a former leader of the city council of Newcastle upon Tyne — as well as Dame Evelyn ( Baroness from 1966 ) Sharp who had been Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government when Crossman arrived in 1964 ( Wood 1976:40 — 1 ) . |
| 24 | The matter had a rather startling consequence : Crossman 's senior civil servant , the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing , was a lady , Dame Evelyn Sharp . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The key post of Minister of Finance was given to businessman Emmanuel Kasonde , a permanent secretary at the Ministry during the 1970s . |
| 27 | MPs are also to summon Sir Clive Whitmore , Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , to explain repeated failures by his ministry to curb TV licence evasion . |
| 28 | In the words of Sir Frank Newsam , Cunningham 's predecessor as Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , the Directors stood : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For some , that means macroeconomics : hence the promotion of Sir Terence Burns to be permanent secretary at the Treasury , after 11 years as the government 's chief economic adviser . |