Example sentences of "of the [noun] house of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 11 , 1990 , Nouhak Phoumsavan met Charles Rangel , the Chairman of the Narcotics and Drugs Control Committee of the US House of Representatives , in Vientiane . |
| 2 | The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , which was ceded by Spain to the United States of America in 1898 , has since 1952 been a state in " free association " with the USA and has a Resident Commissioner who is a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives . |
| 3 | On April 23 the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives authorized $475,000,000 as emergency assistance for Iraqi refugees . |
| 4 | It has a Resident Commissioner , elected for a four-year term , who is a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives . |
| 5 | Stephen Solarz , chair of the subcommittee for Asian and Pacific affairs of the US House of Representatives , visited Vietnam on Jan. 3 for talks with , amongst others , Vo Van Kiet . |
| 6 | There were a number of foreign visitors to Cambodia during January including Nguyen Manh Cam , Foreign Minister of Vietnam , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , Foreign Minister of Laos , Ali Alatas , Foreign Minister of Indonesia , Gianni De Michelis , Foreign Minister of Italy , the Earl of Caithness , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Sadako Ogata , the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Stephen Solarz , chair of the subcommittee for Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US House of Representatives , and French and Japanese parliamentary delegations . |
| 7 | The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary . |
| 8 | The Washington Post of June 24 quoted the co-chair of the observer delegation , Donald Payne , a member of the US House of Representatives , as saying that the elections could not be described as " completely free and fair " , and that he hoped that new elections might be held in disputed areas . |
| 9 | US President George Bush signed on Oct. 23 the Cuban Democracy Act , more widely known as the " Torricelli Law " after its sponsor , a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives , Robert J. Torricelli . |
| 10 | Elections for the 56 Greek-Cypriot members of the Cyprus House of Representatives were held on May 18 , 1991 , when the DESY narrowly defeated the AKEL [ see pp. 38208-09 ] . |
| 11 | David Duke , 38 , a former imperial wizard in the Ku Klux Klan , was on Feb. 22 , 1989 , sworn in as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives . |
| 12 | Duke , 41 , a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and former leading figure within the Ku Klux Klan , stated that he would enter every Republican primary except the opening contest in New Hampshire on Feb. 18 . |