Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [art] commons " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without question , these select committees constitute a major development of the work of the Commons . |
| 2 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 3 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 4 | On 27 May 1685 , only a week after Parliament had convened , a grand committee of the House of the Commons ( comprising some 330 members ) agreed to address the King calling for the enforcement of the laws against " all Dissenters whatsoever from the Church of England " , including Catholics . |
| 5 | Some Bills have their committee stage on the floor of the House in the Commons . |
| 6 | ‘ You have to strike a happy medium between looking like royalty and looking like a housewife , ’ a helpful Mrs Tony Newton , wife of the Leader of the Commons explained after she and four Cabinet Minsters ' wives for being lip-glossed and back-combed into shape by the Mail on Sunday . |
| 7 | ‘ The use of impeachment at law is a method of control of the Executive by the Commons has been replaced by the convention of ministerial responsibility to Parliament . ’ |
| 8 | A limited view of the role of the Commons has been put forward by Mr Henry Fairlie in his book The Life of Politics . |
| 9 | In the past the controversy about the nature of the role of the Commons has been reflected in arguments about the proper level of MPs ' pay . |