Example sentences of "[adj] hon. [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 I have had help from the right hon. Members for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) and for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) in advocating that my right hon. and learned Friend should tackle the problem of dyslexia .
2 I appreciate that the hon. Member for Bolsover and the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) believe that that would be a good day 's work .
3 In a short speech , I shall not attempt to make again the points made so tellingly by others , not least my right hon. Friends the Members for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Plymouth , Devonport ( Dr. Owen ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford ( Mr. Cash ) .
4 We have heard speeches not only by my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West , who initiated the debate , and the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West but by the hon. Members for Leicester , East ( Mr. Vaz ) , for Rutland and Melton ( Mr. Latham ) , for Harborough ( Sir J. Farr ) , for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) , for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) , and for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) , my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) and the right hon. Members for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) and the hon. Members for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) , for Houghton and Washington ( Mr. Boyes ) , the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery ( Mr. Carlile ) , and the Opposition Chief Whip .
5 As chairman of the Labour party , I thank the right hon. Lady for her tribute to my good friend Dame Judith Hart .
6 Mr. John Marshall : To ask the right Hon. Member for Selby , as representing the Church Commissioners , what publications the Church Commissioners plan during 1989 .
7 Mr. Gow : To ask the right Hon. Member for Selby , as representing the Church Commissioners , when he next intends to be present at a meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England .
8 Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the right Hon. Member for Selby , as representing the Church Commissioners , how many churches within the commissioners ' care were damaged by fire or by vandalism in the past year ; what were the comparable figures five , 10 and 15 years ago ; and if he will make a statement .
9 Four English Tory Members were members of the Committee considering the Bill and we look forward with interest to see whether that number will rise to seven when we consider the Scottish education Bill because the fidelity of the Hon. Member for Dumfries and the right Hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Buchanan-Smith ) can not be relied upon .
10 It will be within the memory of the House — although the memories of Conservative Members are probably as blank as Conservative Benches — that about five and a half years ago the right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport implemented a very novel idea .
11 The right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury made clear that British Rail did what it was told .
12 The second three-year letter of intent was provided by the right Hon. Member for Croydon , Central ( Mr. Moore ) who is now the Secretary for Social Security .
13 I suspect that a number of Conservative Members support the establishment of such a committee most likely the right Hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Buchanan-Smith ) and the Hon. Members for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale ( Mr. Lang ) .
14 As the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) and his Front-Bench team are so singularly ill-informed , why does not my right hon. Friend invite them to the Department for a teach-in , when they could be given the true facts and figures ?
15 The words of the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) , ’ If we change to win , we could change when we have won ’ , show that British people will not trust the Opposition with defence policy .
16 The principal Opposition party is committed to cutting defence expenditure by a quarter , and the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) is committed to cutting it by a half .
17 Will he confirm that he was not detained or locked up and was widely recognised as the leader of this party — unlike the experience of the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) after four years as Leader of the Opposition ?
18 Since 1979 , there has been an increase of 15,000 uniformed officers , whereas their numbers were cut under the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) .
19 Does the Home Secretary share the view of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) in her letter to the outgoing chairman of TV-am ?
20 However , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Small Heath ( Mr. Howell ) , who is supposed to be the shadow spokesman on this subject , suggested that Labour would encourage a greater ministerial role in the Sports Council .
21 There is no sign from either the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) or the Leader of the Opposition that they would draw the line anywhere on transfer of authority to Brussels .
22 Does my right hon. Friend agree that , in sharp contrast to the open-door policy apparently espoused by the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and his party , the measures contained in the Asylum Bill will be fair and of great benefit to genuine asylum seekers ?
23 He voted for the Bill , as did two of the Liberals here , the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) and the hon. Member for Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber ( Sir R. Johnston ) .
24 The Secretary of State will know that it was one of his predecessors , Lord Carrington , who was instructed by the former Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , not to have formal contacts with the PLO in 1980 .
25 We also know from the honest remarks of the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) that around two fifths of the Labour party opposed its Front Bench 's policy on Europe .
26 Will my right hon. Friend contrast the judicious , prudent and honourable way in which he and his right hon. Friends are negotiating in the European talks with the cynical sell-out proposed by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) ?
27 when the right hon. Member for Huntingdon ( Mr. Major ) became Chancellor , and that it is now 7.3 per cent ?
28 Gross investment in plant and machinery in the last year in which the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) had stewardship of these matters , at constant 1985 prices , was just over £17 billion .
29 His predecessor , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , crept into Liverpool and crept out again without letting people know that she was coming .
30 Given the comments of the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , when he was Secretary of State for the Environment , that national parks were the jewels in the crown , does the Minister not think it fair that that should apply to the entire United Kingdom , not least to my constituency which contains Loch Lomond which is facing ecological disaster as a result of the political intransigence of the blockheads in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh ?
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