Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the hon. [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I do not think that it is right for the hon. Lady to knock the national health service in that way .
2 It is rich for the hon. Member for Dagenham to claim that he is worried about the complexity of our proposal ; that from the hon. Gentleman who suggests that there should be property valuations on four different bases and annual rolling revaluations on a banded basis — although he keeps rather quiet about it .
3 I am sure that it is perfectly possible for the hon. Gentleman to make a trip to Barrow-in-Furness and explain to the work force there what useful work is available for them .
4 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's kind personal comment and for his continuing support over many years for the policy of integrated education .
5 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's opening comments , but not very grateful for his latter comments .
6 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's first remark .
7 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support .
8 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support which I take to be absolutely unequivocal support for the Trident programme .
9 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's words about Her Majesty the Queen .
10 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support .
11 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man .
12 I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about the overall agreement that we have reached .
13 Neither I nor my colleagues are afraid of the hon. Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) or his hon. Friends who represent Ayrshire , however much they may frighten each other .
14 One thing is clear from the hon. Gentleman 's attitude : were there ever a Labour Government , there would be no review of programmes and there would be no assessment of the way in which help is given to ensure that it is cost effective or of how Government resources are deployed to ensure that the taxpayer gets the best value for money .
15 As I have made clear to the hon. Member on the many previous occasions on which he has asked this question , we have no plans to introduce free or concessionary television licences for all pensioners .
16 I am very generous to the hon. Gentleman .
17 There must have been some error in the Conservative Central Office word processor as it churned out yet another brief for the hon. Gentleman to repeat .
18 We have just heard the usual mixture of muddle , confusion and gloom to which we have become accustomed from the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) , who tries every year to prove that more equals less .
19 It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman to make such comments .
20 It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman to say that .
21 It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman to say that the Government have given an undertaking not to turn away volunteers , but 102 Royal Artillery in Northern Ireland is at a strength of 103 per cent .
22 It is extraordinary for the hon. Gentleman to say that he is worried also about the administrative complexity of our proposal .
23 I am puzzled by the hon. Gentleman 's comment that we are unsuccessful in getting inflation down .
24 I am puzzled by the hon. Gentleman 's perception of a reserve of unemployed , a sort of Dad 's Army pool of people waiting to be employed .
25 I am a little puzzled by the hon. Lady 's question .
26 I am grateful to the hon. Member for his kind personal remarks , although I enter a caveat in regard to what he said about my predecessors .
27 I am grateful to the hon. Member for Eccles ( Miss Lestor ) for having tabled the question , which otherwise the Opposition might have accused me of having planted .
28 I am grateful to the hon. Member for the manner in which his question was posed .
29 I am grateful to the hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) for his intervention .
30 I am grateful to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) for allowing me to intervene briefly in this debate .
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