Example sentences of "bill [prep] [art] [noun sg] of lords " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governments do not exercise the same sway over the House of Lords ; notwithstanding that the House of Lords is sensitive of its constitutional vulnerability and hence wary of obstructing governments , it can be more troublesome for a government to negotiate the passage of a Bill through the House of Lords than through the House of Commons . |
| 2 | Occasionally , a Law Lord may introduce a Bill , as did Lord Templeman in 1987–8 when he took the Land Registration Bill through the House of Lords on behalf of the Law Commission . |
| 3 | LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder . |
| 4 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 5 | So Lord Campbell of Alloway is trying to go it alone with a private member 's bill in the House of Lords . |
| 6 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 7 | When in the spring of 1987 Lord Halsbury introduced a bill in the House of Lords to ban the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities , that too went unreported and undiscussed . |
| 8 | The final Unionist weapon would then be the army and the last political tactic was the scheme to amend the annual Army Bill in the House of Lords . |
| 9 | 664 Lord Nottingham took judicial notice of his own experience when introducing the Bill in the House of Lords . |
| 10 | He also issued a tough statement when changes were made to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill in the House of Lords which appeared to diminish the status of Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 11 | My colleague , Lord Houghton , introduced a bill in the House of Lords to make this illegal . |
| 12 | The publishing director of Burkes peerage says disinheriting his first born would be an unprecedented move and would involve introducing a new bill in the House of Lords … but he thinks the Duke may try . |
| 13 | The amendments to the Bill from the House of Lords were debated in only three hours as the Government guillotined the motion , and the Speaker of the House also ruled that a Lord 's amendment saying students should be entitled to Housing Benefit was invalid . |
| 14 | But the Euthanasia Lobby is bring a Bill before the House of Lords which goes much further . |
| 15 | This will go some way to draw the fire of the Government 's critics , but he can still expect a rough ride for the bill on the House of Lords . |