Example sentences of "then [noun] [prep] state " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have mounted because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , stopped any new deals and Hammersmith 's portfolio was largely weighted to the expectation that interest rates would be low , preventing the council from improving its position in the market . |
| 2 | Earlier this year , Paul Channon , then Secretary of State for Transport , agreed to a wide-ranging study of London 's traffic problems . |
| 3 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 4 | At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , produced a computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ : the list was so long because he had counted every programme over £1m , whereas schemes had previously had to cost over £5m in order to qualify . |
| 5 | Norman Fowler ( then Secretary of State for Employment ) was quoted as saying , ‘ We are challenging the whole concept that retirement ages should get earlier and earlier . |
| 6 | For example , Mrs Thatcher convened a meeting of ministers to consider the now legendary minute entitled ‘ It Took a Riot ’ prepared for her by Michael Heseltine , then Secretary of State for the Environment , based on his experiences in Merseyside following the inner-city riots of July 1981 . |
| 7 | Sir Geoffrey was referring to the decision to ban trade unions at GCHQ , a decision taken by a small group of ministers ( himself , the Prime Minister , Lord Whitelaw , Mr Heseltine , then Secretary of State for Defence , with a bit of advice on likely union reactions from Tom King , then Secretary of State for Employment ) . |
| 8 | Sir Geoffrey was referring to the decision to ban trade unions at GCHQ , a decision taken by a small group of ministers ( himself , the Prime Minister , Lord Whitelaw , Mr Heseltine , then Secretary of State for Defence , with a bit of advice on likely union reactions from Tom King , then Secretary of State for Employment ) . |
| 9 | A considerable step forward came , in August 1980 , when Michael Heseltine , then Secretary of State for the Environment , announced that things would be done differently , at least in the parks and certain other designated areas . |
| 10 | Typically , in one of the first debates about inner cities of the third Thatcher term , Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , justified his aggressively business led strategy , introducing more Urban Development Corporations : |
| 11 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 12 | In 1715 , for example , when the collectorship of Stirlingshire was being made an issue by interests unfriendly to the Administration , the friends of the Duke of Montrose , who was then Secretary of State , arranged for John Stirling , a brother of the Laird of Herbertshire , to become collector jointly with the previous holder of the office , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet . |
| 13 | Under the Social Security Pensions Act there was an attempt to change what Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State to the Department of Health and Social Security , described as a situation in which women were ‘ Second class citizens entitled to third class benefits ’ ( House of Commons Debates , 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Lord Young , then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , addressed the Group in May 1989 , Norman Tebbit followed in January 1990 , Nicholas Ridley and Peter Shore ( a veteran Labour critic of the EC ) spoke in the summer of 1990 . |
| 15 | This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement . |
| 16 | So it was a happy coincidence that the Rev Alan Mackenzie at the same Congress was able to announce that he had recently attended a meeting between Sir Keith Joseph , then Secretary of State for Social Services , and representatives of other national voluntary organisations concerned with the deaf and the hard of hearing , where the Minister 's intention of setting up a permanent committee to help and advise him had been discussed . |
| 17 | Despite this obstacle , Sturt was determined to press ahead with the expedition , and on 19 May he appealed to Gould to exert any pressure he could on Lord Derby to encourage his son , Lord Stanley — who was then Secretary of State for the Colonies — to back the proposal . |
| 18 | Mr Norman Tebbit , then secretary of state at the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , asked few questions and waved through the Al Fayed bid in ten days flat . |
| 19 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 20 | In Hansard ( 17 December 1991 , vol 201 , No 25 , col 119 ) Gillian Shephard ( then Minister of State at the Treasury ) stated that Customs ' long-standing policy is that ‘ rent-free periods are outside the scope of VAT unless services are performed by the tenant for the landlord ’ . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |