Example sentences of "member of [art] house [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of a House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology had criticised the quality of Commission research . |
| 2 | This includes : making written submissions to public bodies ; lobbying MPs and Members of the House of Lords when legislation on anything connected with music , like copyright , is being enacted ; representing musicians ' interests in national and international forums on issues such as the collection and payment of royalties on behalf of performers and composers . |
| 3 | On December 27th 110 of the 267 Democratic members of the House of Representatives signed a letter written by George Miller , a Californian Democrat who came into Congress in 1974 as part of the post-Vietnam wave of liberals . |
| 4 | The Founding Fathers declared that an ‘ enumeration ’ should take place every ten years so that members of the House of Representatives can be fairly apportioned among the states . |
| 5 | She reviewed possible officials who might be contacted with profit , various other relations including her Uncle Willie , and influential members of the House of Lords . |
| 6 | A government is produced by the members of the House of Commons , which is the chief reason voters cast their ballots in elections . |
| 7 | Friends of the Earth found itself fighting alongside left and right-wing members of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee to overturn the tax system which benefited investors in plantation forestry at the expense of wildlife and the taxpayer . |
| 8 | In 1963 the Peerage Bill became law and members of the House of Lords could now renounce their titles and preserve their political careers in the Commons . |
| 9 | However , Poor Law Boards were often controlled by the local squire , and members of the House of Lords and their families played important political and financial roles throughout the whole century . |
| 10 | EVERY WEEK , all members of the House of Lords receive a written call , or ‘ whip ’ from their party managers to attend certain meeting and to vote . |
| 11 | All other peers may now take a seat in the House of Lords and may not participate in the election of Members of the House of Commons . |
| 12 | Although a government which enjoys the confidence of a comfortable majority of Members of the House of Commons is very unlikely to encounter any difficulty in securing such sanction , the necessity for it remains the ultimate weapon in the hands of the House . |
| 13 | In the United States the vote for the President is cast separately to those for members of The House of Representatives ( lower house ) and The Senate ( upper house ) . |
| 14 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 15 | Passing new laws was not a common occurrence , and the Commons usually left the conduct of day-to-day policy , especially in foreign affairs , to the King and his council , with complete certainty that this small body was better informed than the Commons or even the average members of the House of Lords . |
| 16 | Tip O'Neill is instructive on the differences between the two administrations in these matters : Being ‘ helped out ’ in one 's district was a matter of the greatest importance to members of the House of Representatives , the forum where Reagan 's legislative strategists would face their severest test . |
| 17 | It may seem strange that such an important and renowned healing centre should have been given up so easily and so early , and this may reflect the despoliation and depredations by members of the House of Constantine . |
| 18 | Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament . |
| 19 | The New Party had been funded in January 1931 by a gift of 50,000 from the motor manufacturer William Morris , later Lord Nuffield , and encouraged by defections from the Labour party , including six members of the House of Commons . |
| 20 | Of direct interest only to the most rarefied of all constituencies of criminal justice was the abolition of the privilege of peers to be tried before a special court composed of members of the House of Lords if charged with the commission of certain crimes . |
| 21 | Members of the House of Commons were often important landowners , with considerable parliamentary experience and the ability to decide things for themselves . |
| 22 | The Cabinet did not , the party machine did not , the constituencies did not , at least three quarters of the Conservative members of the House of Commons did not . |
| 23 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 24 | This stems from the fact that members of the House of Lords make up the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . |
| 25 | seven other members of the House of Commons appointed by the House , none of whom shall be a Minister of the Crown . |
| 26 | In support of that argument he produced no less an authority than the speech of Lord Bridge of Harwich , with which the other members of the House of Lords agreed , in Cocks v. Thanet District Council [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 286 . |
| 27 | Parliament must be well aware of the great burden that is imposed on senior ministers , who not only take charge of their departments but also speak for them in Parliament , attend meetings of the Cabinet and its committees , and see to their constituency affairs if they are members of the House of Commons . |
| 28 | From this it will be seen that the most senior judges are Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ( or Law Lords ) who are members of the House of Lords and sit , in their judicial function , in the Appellate Committee of that House . |
| 29 | The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General ( the law officers of the Crown ) are ministers , not in the cabinet , appointed by the Prime Minister from the ranks of Members of the House of Commons who are barristers . |
| 30 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |