Example sentences of "[prep] the house of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh aye , it was a bad day for the house of Bolfracks — no doubt about it — very bad — oh aye . |
| 2 | For the House of Commons , proportional reprentation would in consequence be a reduction , not an extension of democracy . ’ |
| 3 | It also approved the Democracy and the Individual review , proposing : To replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber ; Devolved assemblies for Scotland , Wales , and the regions of England ; Unification of Ireland only by consent of the majority in the North ; A Freedom of Information Act ; A Ministry for Women ; A Department of Legal Administration to run the courts ; Extend legal aid ; A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives ; A Children 's Commissioner to act as an ombudsman on childrens ' rights ; Firm opposition to reform of the voting system for the House of Commons . |
| 4 | But advocates of PR said afterwards that the issue would not go away : Labour has yet to decide its preferred method of electing its proposed regional assemblies and its replacement for the House of Lords . |
| 5 | From the purchasers ' point of view , auctions can also be attractive — if slightly nerve-racking as you wait for bidding to start for the house of your dreams . |
| 6 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 7 | Apologists for the House of Lords argue that it ceased to be the exclusive preserve of the upper classes with the creation of Life Peerages in 1958 . |
| 8 | The only excuse for the House of Lords is that it exists . |
| 9 | THE RESULTS of Labour 's inquiry into electoral reform for the House of Commons will be complete within a year of taking office , Mr Kinnock promised yesterday . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock appears to have been preparing the ground for a possible arrangement with the Liberal Democrats by stressing his party 's commitment to proportional representation in a Scottish assembly , and to involve other parties in a review of alternative voting systems for the House of Commons . |
| 11 | As for the House of Mattli , it might have been in a different world to the hostel , with its air of being a cross between a workhouse and a boarding school . |
| 12 | This case is , as is readily appreciated , a case merely for the existence of some sort of second chamber , and not for the House of Lords as at present composed . |
| 13 | The Parliament Act 1911 still recites that ‘ it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ’ and explains the Act itself as a temporary measure pending such a substitution . |
| 14 | In exceptional cases , under the ‘ Parliament Act ’ procedure ( considered below , pp.98–9 ) , it may not even be necessary for the House of Lords to pass the Bill . |
| 15 | It is rare , today , for the House of Commons to bring a government down , but there is no escape from the quinquennial test of a general election , and in an election the constant exposure of the weakness of a government in the course of debates and questions in Parliament can be a powerful influence as , indeed , can the converse — government spokesmen consistently and persistently surviving the attacks of a hostile House . |
| 16 | It is extremely rare for the House of Lords to reject outright a Bill passed by the Commons , slightly less rare for the Commons to reject outright a Bill passed by the Lords — odd or controversial Bills are occasionally passed by the House of Lords , sometimes , one suspects , in the confident expectation that they will be rejected by the Commons . |
| 17 | The fact that consciousness is able to operate independently of the physical vehicle has been proved throughout vast research , and that an ‘ interconnectiveness ’ exists between mind and matter was brought clearly into focus in a study prepared for the House of Representatives Science and Technology Commission in the United States , back in 1981 . |
| 18 | Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed . |
| 19 | Anna felt , with a sudden pain , huge affection for her mother , for the house of her childhood , at last for her dead father . |
| 20 | A castle , a mansion and an inn in Austria provide a more directly Ruritanian setting for The House of the Four Winds but the coincidental meetings and puzzles of identity which engage Dickson McCunn and other characters from Castle Gay are worked out with a somewhat mechanical expertise . |
| 21 | It is fair to say that 1988 was typical year for the House of Lords . |
| 22 | Blom-Cooper and Drewry concluded that there was a role for the House of Lords and argued that the House of Lords was neither unfitted to retain its present judicial role nor prohibitively expensive to use . |
| 23 | Prior to this he had painted The Death of Nelson ( Colour Plate XIX ) , again on a big format and based on a reproduction of the central group in Daniel Maclise 's mural of the same subject for the House of Lords . |
| 24 | It concerns the reaction of the Whig politician , Lord Brougham , to the Prince Regent 's sympathy for the House of Stewart . |
| 25 | ‘ It is , of course , a matter of discretion for the House of Lords how far , if at all , it will allow points other than that certified to be developed … ’ . |
| 26 | Accordingly , if the nature of the privilege going beyond the Bill of Rights had been identified , your Lordships could have determined whether or not such privilege exists , although it would be for the House of Commons to determine whether or not there was an infringement of any privilege found to exist . |
| 27 | [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ] |
| 28 | If the last son of an old family dies , how do you make new lords for the House of Lords ? |
| 29 | But this did not mean that it was impossible for the House of Commons to exercise some influence . |
| 30 | Trade unions had for some time been supporting candidates for the House of Commons and spending union funds for this purpose . |