Example sentences of "[art] [noun] foreign [conj] [noun sg] office " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 2 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office responded by " deploring " the remark and calling on the international community " to reject , in the firmest possible way , Iran 's outrageous behaviour " . |
| 3 | Mark Lennox-Boyd , Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , told the UK Parliament on June 11 that the expulsion , linked to complaints that Gladstone had interfered in the elections by entering a polling booth and by registering a complaint with police alleging malpractice and multiple voting , was apparently intended to stifle Gladstone 's criticism of Sri Lanka 's " unsatisfactory human rights record " . |
| 4 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 5 | In April the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd visited both Hong Kong and China [ see p. 38147 ] and in July Francis Maude , Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited China for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 6 | His remarks , downplayed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , provoked an uproar among UK right-wing Conservative politicians . |
| 7 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on July 3 said that further information would be requested from the Libyan government , following a meeting between the Libyan ambassador to Tunisia , Abd al-Atti Obeidi , and other Libyan officials and United Kingdom representatives at the Geneva headquarters of the UN on June 9 . |
| 8 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office rejected the threat , saying that it was contrary to the Basic Law . |