Example sentences of "[vb -s] the prime " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE MISSING link reappears at Goodwood this afternoon in the shape of Ile De Nisky ( 2.45 ) , the horse who represents the prime piece of evidence in the argument over the comparative merits of Nashwan and Old Vic , writes John Karter . |
| 2 | In an interview with The Independent , he aligns himself with critics of the proposed timetable of change in the National Health Service , and he questions the Prime Minister 's ‘ sceptical ’ approach to the European Community . |
| 3 | Peter Mandelson , the Labour Party 's director of communications , said yesterday : ‘ Mr Kinnock neither has the Prime Minister 's folie de grandeur nor is he running scared of the British people . |
| 4 | Indeed , since the female has the prime investment in young , this is exactly what would be expected from Trivers 's elaboration of Darwin 's account of sexual selection ( p. 52 ) . |
| 5 | Ruritanian romance , like any other kind of adventure story , has the prime duty of making the artificial seem real , of establishing validity for a studied , carefully composed sequence of events . |
| 6 | Has the Prime Minister noticed that the major issue in the Kincardine and Deeside by-election is the widespread public opposition to the application by Foresterhill hospital in Aberdeen to become a self-governing trust ? |
| 7 | What has the Prime Minister to say about the comments of the last Conservative leader of Lambeth council , who in a letter published in The Guardian on Saturday said — I want to quote it , and he said , ’ The Government is failing in its treatment of the mentally ill ’ |
| 8 | — has the Prime Minister read the comment by police commander David Stevens that the police are not responsible for crime any more than doctors are responsible for disease , and that crime is an indicator of economic and social malaise ? |
| 9 | Has the Prime Minister one shred of sympathy for Britain 's beer drinkers ? |
| 10 | Has the Prime Minister had time to study the excellent article in the Glasgow Herald yesterday by the last Conservative leader of Glasgow district council , reflecting on the problems facing the Tory party in coming to terms with the need to give Scotland its own Parliament ? |
| 11 | Has the Prime Minister seen today 's Financial Times ? |
| 12 | What advice has the Prime Minister for one of my constituents , Mrs. Logan , who lives in Camlinton new town and is in great pain with an arthritic hip ? |
| 13 | Has the Prime Minister seen the prospectus from Pathfinders Repossessions plc , which is a company which proposes to buy repossessed homes at auction and then flog them off or rent them at a huge profit ? |
| 14 | Has the Prime Minister had time today to study the Department of Trade and Industry 's figures that were released on Tuesday , which showed that over the last five years Chinese quotas for the importation of cashmere garments into the European Community have been exceeded by 500,000 units and that in 1991 the actual importation exceeded the quotas by over 400 per cent ? |
| 15 | To revert to the Scottish question that was raised by the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan ( Mr. Salmond ) , has the Prime Minister noted the statement today by the leaders of the financial services industries north of the border that in the event of a measure of devolution or independence , to which the Opposition parties aspire , the likeliest result would be that many of the financial services companies would move south of the border ? |
| 16 | Has the Prime Minister seen the report from Mr. Graham Jackson , consultant cardiologist at Guy 's trust hospital , who says : ’ You put ’ — seriously ill heart — ’ patients on a list to come in but , by the time their turn comes , the contract has run out and the trust administrator says there are no funds till the next financial year ’ ? |
| 17 | Has the Prime Minister seen the report on ’ World in Action ’ last night , which showed that one of his Ministers has been involved in smearing a private citizen ? |
| 18 | The mass media , and the television in particular , places the Prime Minister in the public eye as the government , and general elections have increasingly become personalised contests between rival party leaders . |
| 19 | But a fear of mass urban unemployment grips the prime minister even more powerfully than that of inflation . |
| 20 | STEPHEN SILK meets the Prime Minister and follows his progress through Yarm . |
| 21 | Oh , excuse me , I 'm just wondering what does one do when one meets the Prime Minister ? |
| 22 | She appoints the Prime Minister and has the power to dissolve Parliament . |
| 23 | According to the 1959 Constitution executive power is held by the President , elected every five years , who appoints the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | The Governor-General appoints the Prime Minister ( currently Aneerood Jugnauth ) , and on the latter 's advice , the other members of the Council of Ministers , who are responsible to the Assembly . |
| 25 | The Governor-General appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's recommendation , the members of the Cabinet . |
| 26 | The President in turn appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's advice , the other members of the government . |
| 27 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and , upon the latter 's recommendation , the other members of the government . |
| 28 | The King appoints the Prime Minister on the advice of the National Assembly , and the Council of Ministers on the advice of the Prime Minister . |
| 29 | The President in turn appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's recommendation , the other members of the Council of Ministers . |
| 30 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |