Example sentences of "mp for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Graham Riddick , MP for Colne Valley , said he was reminding the chairmen ‘ of their duty to political impartiality ’ . |
| 2 | Riddick , MP for Colne Valley and a rugby fan , said : ‘ The rugby authorities are being spineless . ’ |
| 3 | Paisley had to be in Ulster that day , but Kevin McNamara , MP for Kingston-upon-Hull , realised that the Black issue was being avoided and intervened to say that MPs were concerned about the serious allegations which had been made . |
| 4 | Julian Critchley is Conservative MP for Aldershot . |
| 5 | The major bastion of Welsh Jacobitism was the north-east , where Watkin Williams Wynn ( who was to be MP for Denbighshire from 1716 to 1749 ) established a Jacobite club called the " Cycle of the White Rose " on 10 June 1710 . |
| 6 | Mr David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , last year a staunch supporter on the Commons committee examining the tax , is now so alarmed at how it works that this week he asked ministers to scrap the ‘ monstrously unfair ’ community charge . |
| 7 | David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning . |
| 8 | He had meantime become a JP , and was elected in 1690 MP for Malmesbury , and subsequently knight of the shire for Buckinghamshire , sitting till his death . |
| 9 | He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1529 , and again in 1547 , and may well have served in intervening Parliaments for which the names of the members for Malmesbury are unknown . |
| 10 | Ron Brown , Labour MP for Edinburgh Leith , was reselected last night as his local party 's parliamentary candidate . |
| 11 | There was strong criticism amongst black Labour Party members last year when no black was appointed to the front bench in that year 's reshuffle and again when Mr Alistair Darling , the MP for Edinburgh Central , was given the race relations brief . |
| 12 | Responsibility for financial services has gone to another lawyer , solicitor Alistair Darling , MP for Edinburgh Central . |
| 13 | Alistair Darling , Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , said : ‘ I think Scotland 's future should be decided by people who live in Scotland , pay taxes in Scotland and have a personal stake in the nation 's future . ’ |
| 14 | Alistair Darling , the Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , said that the Leyland DAF crisis was the latest damage done to Scotland 's manufacturing base , adding : ‘ Even the financial services sector , crucial to Scotland 's economy and an area in which we are world leaders , is predicting job losses . ’ |
| 15 | Alistair Darling , Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , said last night : ‘ It is ironic that the Scottish Office is ordering its office supplies from south London . |
| 16 | Labour 's Treasury spokesman , Alistair Darling , MP for Edinburgh Central , said : ‘ The select committee has produced a damning indictment of the Bank of England supervision of BCCI . |
| 17 | Opposition MPs , including Labour 's City spokesman , Alistair Darling , MP for Edinburgh Central , accused the Government of pressing Tory members of the committee into deleting the compensation recommendation . |
| 18 | Yesterday 's announcement was made by the defence procurement minister , Jonathan Aitken , in a written answer to a parliamentary question from the Labour MP for Edinburgh East , Gavin Strang . |
| 19 | MICHAEL Clark Hutchison , who was Conservative MP for Edinburgh South for more than 22 years , has died aged 79 . |
| 20 | Alistair Darling , Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , singled out for particular criticism the general manager of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children , who was provided with a BMW saloon . |
| 21 | The former ferry steward , who rose through the National Union of Seaman before being elected MP for Hull , wears every thought and feeling on his sleeve . |
| 22 | He has been MP for Hull East since 1970 . |
| 23 | Liberal MP for Hull for twenty-five years , was elevated to the peerage in 1904 as first Baron Nunburnholme . |
| 24 | MP for Hull , during the course of the Hull Dock Act of 1774 . |
| 25 | John Prescott , MP for Hull East was approached . |
| 26 | The MP for Norfolk South West , which she won in 1987 , she was a key member of Mr Major 's leadership team , working under the Chancellor Norman Lamont , and was rewarded for her efforts by being promoted from parliamentary under secretary for Social Security to Minister of State at the Treasury responsible for VAT , Customs and Excise , and harmonisation of EC taxes . |
| 27 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 28 | Ralph Howell , MP for Norfolk North which includes the royal home of Sandringham , said on the suggestion that Princess Diana could still be crowned queen in Westminster Abbey : ‘ There was some surprise in the Commons . |
| 29 | Transport Secretary John MacGregor , MP for Norfolk South , has been approached by the family of Bondone of his constituents and is believed to be making his own contact with Sir Nicholas . |
| 30 | Mr Michael Latham , Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton , went to see Mr Michael Howard , the minister responsible for water , on behalf of his constituents . |