Example sentences of "house of [noun prp] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords adverted to this problem in Kassim [ 1992 ] 1 AC 1 , a case on s.20 of the 1968 Act , procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception . |
| 2 | In discussing the meaning of s13 , the House of Lords focussed upon the question of identification so that , as Lord Hodson said ( at pp466-7 ) : " The language used [ s 13 of SGA 1979 ] is directed to the identification of goods … |
| 3 | Although their creation had the disadvantage of prolonging the existence of the House of Lords long beyond its natural term , it has had one beneficial effect in broadening the representation of women in parliament . |
| 4 | Two years after Petrofina the House of Lords laid down guidelines as to what did and what did not , fall within the doctrine in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 . |
| 5 | The House of Lords held in Lawrence that a person was guilty of theft even when the owner has consented to the taking of the property . |
| 6 | In the context of murder the House of Lords held in DPP v Smith [ 1961 ] AC 290 that GBH meant " really serious bodily harm " . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held by a majority of three to two that the annual payments were deductible in computing the taxpayer 's income . |
| 8 | This is what the House of Lords decided in two cases last April in spite of an attempt to get the valuers off the hook by a disclaimer which said : ‘ I accept that the valuer does not warrant anything stated in his report as being accurate … |
| 9 | When the Clause was debated in the House of Lords early in 1988 , one Labour peer ‘ came out ’ as having been brought up by a ‘ pretended family ’ . |
| 10 | The effect of the amendment which the House of Lords accepted on Monday , by making clear that promotion can not be unintentional , is to put the point beyond doubt . |
| 11 | Early on , however , the forerunner of the modern House of Lords emerged from the Council around the monarch and it is now over seven centuries since commoners of England ( albeit of no more lowly status than the county squirearchy ) were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 12 | These cases illustrate the importance which the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords attached to the need not to constrain the Commission and the Office of Fair Trading within narrow bounds and to emphasize the width of their discretionary powers . |
| 13 | The judgment of the House of Lords rested upon the principle that municipal courts are not competent to adjudicate upon transactions entered into by independent sovereign States on the international plane , and did not directly address the issues raised by Westland . |
| 14 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 15 | The House of Lords lost its powers of financial scrutiny in the 1911 Parliament Act , but the House of Commons continued to be jealous of its power to scrutinise ministers ' proposals for expenditure . |
| 16 | This deal was made acceptable to those provinces which would lose seats in the new Senate by increasing their representation in a House of Commons expanded from 295 to 337 members . |
| 17 | In 1940 Winston Churchill , as Prime Minister , told a crowded House of Commons stunned by the fall of France : ‘ My policy is victory ’ . |
| 18 | It is true that the House of Commons agreed on a resolution on 29 January that linked James 's abdication with his breaking of the original contract , but the Lords objected to this . |
| 19 | seven other members of the House of Commons appointed by the House , none of whom shall be a Minister of the Crown . |
| 20 | The final major aspect of the new constitutional settlement seen as desirable by the constitutional authorities embodies a concern to revive parliamentary government and the power of an independent House of Commons unchecked by outside interest and direct democratic pressures . |
| 21 | He also spoke eloquently in the House of Commons early in 1955 of the value of invulnerable thermo-nuclear systems to both East and West . |
| 22 | The House of Commons evolved from the summoning to council , in the latter half of the thirteenth century on a somewhat sporadic basis , of knights and burgesses as representatives of the counties and towns . |
| 23 | The efforts of the newly established coalition ministry in 1705 to secure the election of a moderate House of Commons balanced between the two extremes proved to be largely unsuccessful . |
| 24 | Even the House of Commons stepped in and denounced Middlesbrough for attempting to buy their way out of the relegation zone . |
| 25 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 26 | The most important effect of this degree of government control has been to render the House of Commons incapable of adapting its procedure to keep pace with altered administrative practices . |
| 27 | The Foreign Office reckons no veto will be needed on monetary union because the latest deal proposed by Jacques Delors , the present of the EC commission , would not commit Britain to adopt a European currency until the House of Commons wanted to . |
| 28 | The Government will not allow a free vote on the treaty in the House of Commons even on the referendum clause . |
| 29 | To emphasize his concern for his constituents he once appeared in the House of Commons dressed like a Cumberland labourer and carrying a loaf and a cheese under his arms . |
| 30 | In practice , it has been suggested that the C. and A.G. also has a close and effective working relationship with the Public Accounts Committee ; this is the committee of the House of Commons responsible for examining the public accounts it sees fit to examine and has the power to send for persons , papers and records . |