Example sentences of "the house of [noun prp] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 2 | Although limited by the Parliament Acts and the convention of non-involvement in financial matters , the House of Lords is the only such check . |
| 3 | In civil cases a precondition to any appeal from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords is the obtaining of leave from either the Court of Appeal or the Appeal Committee of the House of Lords , which consists of three Law Lords . |
| 4 | The House of Lords is the supreme English court . |
| 5 | The monarchy and the House of Lords are the two most significant British ‘ anomalies ’ . |
| 6 | The Lickbarrow v. Mason decisions by the House of Lords were the first ( at least in Anglo-American law ) to establish that a consignor 's right to stop the goods before they reached the consignee was subordinate to the rights of the consignee 's endorsee holding such a bill . |
| 7 | An appeal to the House of Lords was the only avenue left open to him after the High Court rejected his bid to overturn the decision and then , in December , the Court of Appeal refused his application for a judicial review . |
| 8 | The British experience was perceived by Michael Foot when in Opposition in the following way : ‘ I think one of the most serious threats to the power of the House of Commons is the notion which is growing up that you can have a meeting in Downing Street of the Executive and the CBI and the TUC who make an agreement that is binding and when it comes to the House of Commons the House of Commons has not the power … to tear that bargain apart ’ ( quoted in Grant 1977 , p. 169 ) . |
| 9 | Politically , and in practice , however , the House of Commons was the working guts of Parliament , and , in addition , it alone had the job of selecting ( and checking ) the Cabinet as the executive to govern the country . |
| 10 | His supporters , Baldwin said , thought that he should meet Parliament , ‘ and that former precedent did not apply in this instance , in which the question at issue was one concerning not two but three Parties , and that the House of Commons was the proper place for the choice of the Electorate to be made known ’ . |