Example sentences of "hon. and [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 If future arrangements were inadequate , my right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State would undoubtedly use those powers .
2 At that time the Hon. Gentleman expressed the hope that between then and Report his Hon. Friend the Minister would look into the matter , talk to his right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and decide that it was more logical to have one body looking after all transport issues in Scotland .
3 Can he assure me that , if he has not already done so , he will send a copy of that report to our right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment ?
4 I saw Mr. Faisal Husseini earlier in the year and the Minister of State , my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , has met other Palestinians .
5 My hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State visited the states in September immediately after we re-established diplomatic relations with them to underline our support .
6 The discussions that the Minister of State , my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) is now having with the Baltic states are taking place in a constructive atmosphere .
7 My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community .
8 That was certainly the view of the right hon. Gentleman in the debate last week , but it was flatly contradicted by his right hon. and learned Friend the shadow Chancellor on television at the weekend .
9 My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary has given them the figures on investment in this country and they are rather good .
10 As my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary pointed out , when the Labour party was in power the fastest-growing item of Government expenditure was debt interest .
11 I will draw my hon. Friend 's suggestions to the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport .
12 My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is doing all that he can within Europe to achieve the speedy adoption of a Europewide directive , on which Great Britain has been in the lead , to get our Western European car manufacturing colleagues to do exactly the same .
13 I shall draw his views to the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General .
14 The figure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment gave included those who might be affected in other ways by premature closure .
15 Will he undertake to support the Bill to be introduced by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) ?
16 Does my hon. Friend accept that the fears raised in some people 's mind by the White Paper have not been entirely quelled by the reassurances that he and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State have given ?
17 Will my right hon. Friend today find time to join my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science in condemning Labour and Liberal Democrat councils , such as Nottingham , Derbyshire and Richmond , which have blocked the distribution of the parents charter ?
18 The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement .
19 My right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General has made it clear that the law is not suspended and therefore it would remain a matter for local authorities if they wished to bring actions .
20 That is a matter on which I should be wise to seek the advice of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor .
21 The last discussion of Syria , apart from discussions in the peace process , was on 10 July at a meeting of EC Ministers , which my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State attended .
22 But as my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General explained in answer to a private notice question from my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington ( Mr. Stanbrook ) on 27 November 1991 , those provisions are not therefore suspended .
23 The report that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State published yesterday is extremely important .
24 As my right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary said with characteristic understatement : ’ Dogs bark , cats miaow and the Labour party puts up taxes . ’
25 I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will be happy to see the hon. Member concerned .
26 I am especially pleased to hear that he now supports the tests introduced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science .
27 My hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State who went to the conference on security and co-operation in Europe meeting in Prague last week was able to take an initiative and arrange for the CSCE to send a human rights team to the two republics to see whether it can help matters .
28 If my hon. Friend will be patient , I think that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment will shortly have some comments which will please him .
29 With regard to the example that the hon. Gentleman has given , if there is any question of the law of the land not being obeyed I shall ask my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment to look into it .
30 Does he think that his right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary was hinting that the Government might choose to extend VAT ?
  Next page