Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] friend [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What my noble and learned friends have said will , however , enable me to express myself quite shortly . |
| 2 | What one needs to recognise , as my noble and learned friends have done , is that the privilege against self-incrimination must prevail , unless it has been modified or abrogated by statute . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend remember that under the previous Labour Government , the International Monetary Fund came to the rescue ? |
| 4 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend take any action to shorten that period and clear up what is a highly unsatisfactory situation , whatever view one takes on Sunday opening ? |
| 5 | Will my hon. and learned Friend take the opportunity to pay tribute to the United Nations inspectors in Iraq who suffered harassment while carrying out a vital duty on behalf of us all ? |
| 6 | Following the visit of our hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , North ( Mr. Eggar ) to Basildon last Friday , will my right hon. and learned Friend endorse our hon. Friend 's statement that the independence that we are offering colleges of further education and sixth-form colleges such as Basildon 's will enable them to be more effective , efficient and flexible than they can be at present ? |
| 7 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend tell the House of any European Community country with a higher proportion of its adult population in work than the United Kingdom ? |
| 8 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend contrast the £500 million that he has added to his Department 's budget and last month 's fall in unemployment in Merseyside , Lancashire and Cheshire with the squabbling of the Opposition Front Bench , which can not decide whether employment and training are priorities in their programme ? |
| 9 | Will my hon. and learned Friend ensure that everything is done to enable food supplies to be extended to the Baltic states as well as to Russia ? |
| 10 | Does my hon. and learned Friend recognise that , whatever the concern in this country about the mess in Yugoslavia , there would be even more concern if we started sending in British troops , whether as part of a peace-keeping force or anything else ? |
| 11 | Does my hon. and learned Friend recognise that , in recent years , several hundred Arabs have been murdered by terrorists for co-operating with the Israelis ? |
| 12 | How does my hon. and learned Friend expect Palestinians to feel that they will get a fair crack of the whip while they are subjected to those double standards ? |
| 13 | Did my right hon. and learned Friend notice that last summer the independent report into Leeds primary schools showed clearly that the schools that had had enhanced resources and more teachers could not show a positive correlation between extra resources and higher standards and , moreover , that the report highlighted the problem of teaching methods ? |
| 14 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend give us any estimate of the time that will elapse before the European Court gives its judgment on the matter ? |
| 15 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way ? |
| 16 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way ? |
| 17 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way ? |
| 18 | Furthermore , both I and my right hon. and learned Friend have made it clear that we want more education provided locally for adults than is currently available . |
| 19 | What plans does my right hon. and learned Friend have to implement the report , and what is the time scale likely to be ? |
| 20 | As the subject of funds for British Rail has been mentioned , will my right hon. and learned Friend have a look at two points quickly — |
| 21 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend do everything that he can to complete that road as soon as possible ? |
| 22 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider advising local authorities — which still seem to be unaware of their present powers on which they can act and circulating information to them to tell them that if they want to come down on Sunday traders , the statute book in Britain already gives them that authority ? |
| 23 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend share my concern about the disproportionate impact of unemployment on the construction industry , which it is estimated will have lost 250,000 building operatives , some perhaps never to return ? |
| 24 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the whole purpose of the reforms is to increase the number of inspections in schools , not reduce them , and that the monitoring and regulation of the new system will be such that it would not be in the professional interest of any inspector to try to fiddle a report ? |
| 25 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Transport and General Workers Union has been wrong on all the major issues facing the country in the past 12 years ? |
| 26 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that Labour 's proposals for a national minimum wage may seem superficially attractive but would be deeply damaging to business , particularly small business , and to job prospects ? |
| 27 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that spending an extra £35 billion could be financed only by massive increases in taxation and higher interest rates , which would lead to a massive increase in the level of unemployment ? |
| 28 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that , although we can not protect the entire railway track throughout the country , a useful step may be to see whether cameras can be used at strategic points , not least at the busiest rail junction in the world ? |
| 29 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that in a variety of spheres such as banking , pensions and building societies , ombudsmen have been enormously successful ? |
| 30 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the level of investment is most of all decided by the real rate of interest ? |