Example sentences of "secretary [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary for State for Education can not withhold permission to publish and this is seen as an important sign of the independence of HMI . |
| 2 | The two resource persons are Dr Musimbi Kanyoro , Executive Secretary for Women in Church and Society with the Lutheran World Federation , and Dr Tobe Levin , founder of the Frankfurt-based group Women 's International Studies Europe . |
| 3 | Other main recommendations were that : ( i ) Congress should create the post of assistant secretary for transport in charge of security and intelligence ; ( ii ) the US government should directly manage security at domestic airports and conduct a study to assess the safety of US airports ; ( iii ) the State Department rather than the airlines should conduct negotiations with foreign governments to meet security standards at airports used by US carriers ; ( iv ) victims of terrorist attacks aimed against the US government should qualify for special financial compensation ; and ( v ) the State Department should take steps to ensure that relatives of victims were given " prompt , humane and courteous treatment and services in overseas disasters " . |
| 4 | I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Fees determined by the Secretary of State under subsection ( 1 ) above shall , on being paid by any applicant to the board , be paid over by the clerk of that board to the council which defray the expenses of that board . |
| 6 | Lastly , the power vested in the Secretary of State under section 14(4) of the Act of 1988 to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of one ( or more ) individuals in view of the length of time he has ( or they have ) resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry there , is not such as to make the nationality requirements compatible with the E.E.C . |
| 7 | The Funding Council shall not borrow money from any source , give any guarantee or indemnity or create any trust or security over or in respect of any of their property which was acquired , improved or maintained wholly or partly , directly or indirectly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State under section Payment of grants , etc. to Funding Council of this Act or from the proceeds of or any consideration for the disposal of any property so acquired , improved or maintained . |
| 8 | This was a visit arranged before John Patten knew whether he 'd still be an MP , never mind Secretary of State of Education . |
| 9 | Where a bankrupt has been discharged , whether automatically or as a result of an application to the court , the court must on the request of the bankrupt issue him with a certificate of discharge , and the bankrupt may also require the Secretary of State to gazette and/or advertise in any newspaper in which the bankruptcy was advertised a notice of the discharge ( r 6.220 ) . |
| 10 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 11 | We have in the Conservative group always taken the view that Oxfordshire has erm contributed to its own problems to a very great extend by going , in its projected spending for this year , beyond the level set by the Secretary of State for capping . |
| 12 | The 11th round had been scheduled to begin on Feb. 15 , 1989 , but the change-over in the US administration caused it to be postponed until June 19 , five days after the US Senate confirmed the appointment of Richard Burt ( a former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs ) as the new NST delegation leader . |
| 13 | She then applied to the Secretary of State for payment under section 106 . |
| 14 | Michael Heseltine , the former Secretary of State for Defence , is the voters ' favourite to succeed Mrs Thatcher , according to an opinion poll published in The Daily Telegraph today . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State for Defence roused his audience with a fierce attack on Labour over its Brighton conference decisions on defence and the appearance at a fringe meeting there of Gerry Adams , the Sinn Fein leader . |
| 16 | Are we to assume that he is to be honoured for his illustrious career as US Secretary of State for Defence ? |
| 17 | After appointing Thorneycroft as Secretary of State for Defence in July 1962 , Macmillan decided that the time was ripe to take a further step in the gradual process of integrating the management of the Services . |
| 18 | In their places came a unified Ministry under the Secretary of State for Defence , who was given two Ministers of State with functional responsibilities to assist him . |
| 19 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 20 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 21 | SENIOR officers in the Scottish regiments are delighted with the news that one of the most urbane Scotsmen in the House of Commons , Malcolm Rifkind , has been appointed Secretary of State for Defence . |
| 22 | For example , it was quite a story in December 1985 when Mrs Thatcher briefly appeared to have allowed Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for Defence , to campaign publicly against the Cabinet 's position that the Westland helicopter company could do a deal with the American firm Sikorsky if its shareholders so wished . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | One reason why she brought Michael Heseltine in as Secretary of State for Defence is said to be his ability as a public-relations man . |
| 25 | Last July , a month after the Argentinian surrender at Port Stanley , Geoffrey Pattie , Under Secretary of State for Defence , issued the MoD 's first report on the war : Falkland Island Operations — Interim Commentary on Equipment Matters . |
| 26 | Even now Michael Heseltine , Britain 's Secretary of State for Defence , is at pains to point out that the installation of cruise need not go ahead ( see p 885 ) . |
| 27 | On Tuesday , 5th February , Duffy 's question came up and was answered by Ian Gilmore , secretary of state for Defence . |
| 28 | motor vehicles owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for the purposes of the disposal of bombs or explosives |
| 29 | motor vehicles owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used by the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service for the purposes of rescue operations in connection with crashed aircraft or any other emergencies ; and |
| 30 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |