Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] of lords " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Environmental Change Network ( ECN ) is the direct result of recommendations contained in the 1984 report of the House of Lords ' Select Committee on Science and Technology , Agriculture and Environmental Research , chaired by Lord Adrian . |
| 32 | Who is the speaker of the House of Lords ? |
| 33 | Parliament did not finally merge bankruptcy and insolvency until 1861 ( 24 & 25 Victoria cap 134 ) following the report of the House of Lords ' Select Committee . |
| 34 | ( 2 ) The composition of the House of Lords |
| 35 | Unless a matter were extraordinarily urgent , the only occasion for its use would be in relation to the passage of a Bill to extend the life of Parliament and even here , the abolition of the House of Lords might be a preferred course . |
| 36 | Although most of them rarely attend , hereditary peers could still , if they so wished , dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords , and it occasionally happens , when a matter of vital and controversial national concern , such as the abolition of hanging , galvanises them , that many more than usual attend . |
| 37 | Reform of the House of Lords |
| 38 | In the case of the House of Lords , no difficulty arises . |
| 39 | They assemble initially in their own chamber from where they are eventually summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to attend at the Bar of the House of Lords where a Commission for the Opening of Parliament is read , usually by the Lord Chancellor , on behalf of the monarch . |
| 40 | The next day , the Speaker leads the Commons back to the Bar of the House of Lords where his election is duly confirmed by the Lord Chancellor on behalf of the monarch and the Speaker then claims from the monarch all the ancient privileges of the House of Commons . |
| 41 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 42 | It did , however , push through a temporary measure ( in which the impending reform of the Lords is recited ) curbing the powers of the House of Lords — the Parliament Act 1911 . |
| 43 | The main thrust of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 is to restrict the blocking power of the House of Lords of a Public Bill passed by the Commons . |
| 44 | If , however , the Commons passes the Bill in the next session , and the Lords again fail to pass it , it can proceed to the Royal Assent , and thus become law , without the concurrence of the House of Lords . |
| 45 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 46 | Paradoxically , the Parliament Act procedure ( designed to operate only pending the reform of the Lords ) has been the salvation of the House of Lords . |
| 47 | ( vii ) Lords amendments The critical examination and , if necessary , revision of Commons Bills is now the chief legislative function of the House of Lords . |
| 48 | It is used in a narrow sense in the context of the Parliament Act procedure as requiring certification by the Speaker with the consequence that the delaying power of the House of Lords is restricted to one month . |
| 49 | This is so particularly in the case of the House of Lords where the whipping system is less effective and where the cross-bench element is more important . |
| 50 | Each House has its privileges ( though many are identical ) and whilst the modus vivendi above referred to may inveigh against interference by the ordinary courts into the affairs of the House of Commons , it is not at all clear that it precludes comment by the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords on the affairs of the House of Lords . |
| 51 | Each House has its privileges ( though many are identical ) and whilst the modus vivendi above referred to may inveigh against interference by the ordinary courts into the affairs of the House of Commons , it is not at all clear that it precludes comment by the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords on the affairs of the House of Lords . |
| 52 | The recommendation of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology 1986 , that ‘ legislation should be introduced to require companies to disclose their R&D expenditure in their annual accounts ’ led to the prompt revision of SSAP 13 , Accounting for Research and Development . |
| 53 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 54 | This interpretation of trust law is founded on well established authorities and could probably be overturned only by a decision of the House of Lords . |
| 55 | As a consequence of the House of Lords ' decision in Gallic Leasing v Coburn ( STC 1991 699 ) the Revenue has now exercised its power of determination under s 42(5) , TMA 1970 . |
| 56 | Although the decision has caused controversy , it is not so much because of the principles underlying the determination of a duty of care but mostly because of the House of Lords ' interpretation of the Companies Act responsibilities of auditors . |
| 57 | In 1834 reforming zealots destroyed a vast collection of Exchequer tallies in the furnaces of the House of Lords , and through the centuries they have been thoughtlessly thrown out and destroyed in the same way that , after a period , we ourselves dump old bills and receipts . |
| 58 | Menu of the historic dinner given to General Jan Christiaan Smuts in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords , 15 May I 917 . |
| 59 | Later , though he was member of a committee of the House of Lords which obtained a confession from Lord Chancellor Bacon of accepting bribes , he remained Bacon 's friend . |
| 60 | Laud was arrested by Parliament , as were ten other bishops who had protested that the sessions of the House of Lords were illegal because the bishops had been excluded by the mob . |