Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] of lords " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the successful pressing home of their attack owed much to the advice of the committee of lords established at the beginning of the parliament , and the council of nine nominated in parliament on 24 May . |
| 2 | In the end , Callaghan managed to remove such policies as unilateralism , abolition of the House of Lords , and nationalizing the ‘ big four ’ banks from Labour 's manifesto . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The decision of the House of Lords in Re W [ 1971 ] AC 682 was the leading authority by which all lower courts were bound . |
| 5 | It accorded with good sense and justice , and also properly reflected the important impact of the House of Lords ' decision in Shah v Barnet Borough Council [ 1983 ] 2 AC 309 upon the statutory definition of settlement for Immigration Act purposes . |
| 6 | Even the protection of the House of Lords is lacking , thanks to a spot of bother Lloyd George had in 1911 . |
| 7 | After our election victory , Willie Whitelaw moved from the Home Office to become Leader of the House of Lords and his place was taken by Leon Brittan , who in a notable promotion became the youngest Home Secretary since Robert Peel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the many reactions to the decision of the House of Lords in Caldwell ( 1982 ) was that it went against DPP v. |
| 10 | Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another . |
| 11 | So swollen did the self-confidence of the House of Lords become that in June 1990 it rejected a measure ( the War Crimes Bill ) already decisively passed by the House of Commons on a free vote , the first such confrontation since 1949 . |
| 12 | The author of these words , John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville Skeffington , the thirteenth Viscount Massereene and sixth Viscount Ferrard , became one of the great institutions of the House of Lords , an inveterate campaigner for field sports . |
| 13 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |
| 16 | Lord Waddington — former Home Secretary , until recently Leader of the House of Lords and eternal British bulldog of the Tory Right — gulps as he hears his fate in the post-election reshuffle . |
| 17 | While the Royal Commission has never been accused of acting as an arm of government , its inquiries are not conducted with the same open-eyed approach to political manipulation as are those of the Select Committees of the House of Lords or House of Commons . |
| 18 | Further constitutional reform will include those leading to the replacement of the House of Lords with a new elected Second Chamber which will have the power to delay , for the lifetime of a Parliament , change to designated legislation reducing individual or constitutional rights . |
| 19 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 20 | Note that the law relating to the last of these excuses , concerning distance to school from home and transport arrangements , has been amended following the decision of the House of Lords in Rogers v Essex County Council ( 1986 ) . |
| 21 | The post was established last year on the recommendation of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The two major attempts at reform in the ten years before Mrs Thatcher , the reform of the House of Lords in 1969 and Scottish and Welsh devolution in 1978 , were both conspicuous failures . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These are the main conclusions of the House of Lords ' select committee on science and technology in a report this week ( Engineering research and development , HMSO , £6. 10 ) . |
| 26 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones set up one of the first and best organised of them in Newcastle Wynne-Jones 's work for the Labour Party , added to his success as a chemist , made him a clear choice as a working member of the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Almost exactly a year ago , Enid Jones , an assistant secretary in the department , told a select committee of the House of Lords : ‘ We have done a big exercise on [ how to safeguard supplies ] but ministers have not reached a decision . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Lord Gregson , the chairmen of the House of Lords ' science and technology committee , says companies that deal with the DoI find the process of obtaining support ‘ demotivating ’ . |
| 30 | Three of the first Lord Glenconner 's sisters married Lords , another married Henry Asquith the Prime Minister , and the youngest , Katherine , the widow of Walter Elliot , a Secretary of State for Scotland , is still on the front bench of the House of Lords in her own right as the Life Peeress , Baroness Elliot of Harwood . |