Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [conj] ministers " in BNC.

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1 It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland .
2 Turning to the final point of the 1952 directive , it is noteworthy that ministers are to be given only the information MI5 decides they need .
3 It is notorious that ministers are overworked .
4 In such circumstances it is natural that Ministers should want to implement without undue delay policies for changes in the legal framework of the criminal law and for dealing with offenders which they may have espoused before coming to power .
5 It is clear that Ministers are intent on a campaign of vilification and attack on Mr. Bruce Millan , the European Commissioner responsible for regional development .
6 It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice .
7 Again , what is a civil servant to do if he is satisfied that ministers are misleading Parliament , not because of national security , but in order to evade political embarrassment ?
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