Example sentences of "[vb pp] office [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came to office unsullied by royal service or political intrigue , and with the political principles and ideas of the schools fresh in their minds , but Stratford had won office by his service to the crown ; he was one of those who managed the early wool loans and spent the opening months of the French war recruiting allies and spies on the continent ; he may have resisted and condemned the malpractices of tax collectors , but he did not protest against royal taxation , burdensome as it was , before these crisis years . |
| 2 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 3 | What you 're looking at is a representation of a purpose built office of some twenty one thousand square feet , near King 's Cross . |
| 4 | HOSPICE staff are still appealing for furniture for their newly opened office at Harewood House , Harewood Hill , Darlington . |
| 5 | ‘ It was gone , Eric , ’ he had explained , his eyes fidgeting to every part of Colonel Windsor 's crammed office as if seeking some corner which would not awaken images of once familiar surroundings . |
| 6 | In October 1961 Macmillan appointed him to the newly invented office of chief secretary to the Treasury , whose unenviable task was to play the role of Scrooge towards popular proposals for public expenditure . |
| 7 | The People 's National Party ( PNP ) was returned to power in a general election on Feb. 9 , 1989 , winning 45 seats and defeating the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) , which had gained office in 1980 . |
| 8 | It was reported on Jan. 3 that Luis Adolfo Portugal Rondón had assumed office as the new president of the Supreme Court . |
| 9 | Hugh Desmond Hoyte , who had assumed office on Aug. 6 , 1985 [ see p. 33977 ] , was sworn in as elected President on Dec. 12 [ see p. 34162 ] . |
| 10 | The Faulkner administration , complete with its Irish republican members , had assumed office at the end of the previous month and the sense of humiliation and indignation among the public meant easy UUUC canvassing . |
| 11 | Every Labour Government has left office with longer waiting lists . |
| 12 | Hickel had been elected governor of the state in 1966 , as a Republican , but had left office in 1969 to become President Nixon 's first Interior Secretary . |
| 13 | On Monday 30 September 1991 troops overthrew the elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , who had taken office on 7 February 1991 . |
| 14 | Mrs Mita Harris , ladies captain of Lee Park in 1968 and 1977 , has taken office as captain of the Society of Liverpool Lady Golf Captains . |
| 15 | Even before Bao Dai 's abdication , his nominal government which had taken office after the Japanese coup , had resigned . |
| 16 | A short ( eleven pages of text ) and inexpensive ( 1s. 3d. ) , but resoundingly entitled , White Paper , The War Against Crime in England and Wales 1959–64 , was published in April 1964 in the dying days of the Conservative Administration which had taken office in 1959 . |
| 17 | Phan Boi Chau ended his life wondering whether the Vietnamese people understood communism any more than he did himself ; but even if , in the 1920s , they did not , and if international communism at least did not understand the Vietnamese people all that well either , one could argue that at a time when the prospects for Vietnam were still fairly evenly balanced between peaceful reform and revolution and even though , in 1924 , a government of the Left had taken office in France , the failure of a constitutional Party helped to turn political forces in Vietnam in the direction of a radical nationalism . |
| 18 | Having taken office in May 1979 , the Conservative government made an early decision to amend the long-standing arrangements for meeting the increasing costs of public sector higher education by limiting the size of the ‘ pool ’ for the financial year of 1980–1 , and an Education Bill was placed before Parliament giving the Secretary of State for Education the necessary power to predetermine the size of , or in the phrase that has crept into common usage , to ‘ cap ’ the pool . |
| 19 | Popularly known as the " White Book " , it expanded on the programme announced when the government of Premier Jozsef Antall had taken office in May . |
| 20 | All other death sentences ( with the exception of one other convicted murderer ) had been commuted since Ben Ali had taken office in 1987 . |
| 21 | ( a ) January 1910 Party Seats Liberal 275 Conservative 273 Irish Nationalist 82 Labour 40 ( b ) December 1910 Party Seats Conservative 272 Liberal 272 Irish Nationalist 84 Labour 42 The Liberal government which had taken office in 1905 won the 1906 general election by a landslide , and remained in office after the two inconclusive general elections of 1910 with tacit support from the small parties . |
| 22 | His departure also meant that only two of the country 's six state leaders — Wayne Goss in Queensland and Ray Groom in Tasmania — had achieved office as a result of state elections . |
| 23 | A Shadow Cabinet containing senior figures like Lord Carrington , Whitelaw , Prior , Maudling , and Pym — most of whom had already achieved office under Mr Heath , were associated with his policies , and owed little to her — was hardly right-wing . |
| 24 | Larry Ellison has decided he can no longer do it all itself , and the Oracle Corp chairman , president and chief executive has brought in James Abrahamson , a former Hughes Aircraft Co executive as co-chair man : Abrahamson will join Ellison in the newly created Office of the Chairman , and the company has also formed a new executive committee to formulate the company 's strategic direction and oversee its worldwide operations ; the committee consists of Abrahamson , Ellison , Ray Lane , president , Oracle USA , Geoff Squire , chief executive , international operations , and Jeff Henley , Oracle 's chief financial officer . |
| 25 | The following year his position at the tents was formally united with the newly created office of master of the revels . |
| 26 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 27 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 28 | Active in committees and a frequent speaker , he was given office as a commissioner of the Ordnance Office in May 1664 . |
| 29 | Robert Ratcliffe , who was given office in Sheen ( Surrey ) by the queen , can be identified with the Woodville interest . |
| 30 | Robert Ratcliffe , who was given office in Sheen ( Surrey ) by the queen , can be identified with the Woodville interest . |