Example sentences of "[vb past] to the house of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Russell appealed to the House of Lords ( see Russell v Northern Bank Development Corporation Ltd & Others [ 1992 ] Financial Times Law Reports , 18 June ) . |
| 2 | The union appealed to the House of Lords and the unofficial action was abandoned . |
| 3 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 4 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1915 Prime Minister Asquith declared to the House of Commons that the continued enlistment of British sailors , the internment of enemy aliens and the recall of allied seamen to their own countries had reduced the maritime labour force to 85 per cent of its pre-war strength . |
| 6 | As a result , it was defeated when the Bill returned to the House of Commons , despite the support of a number of Conservative MPs . |
| 7 | Approaches were then made to Brian Cubbon , the Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office responsible for criminal matters , with the result that within three weeks of publication the Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw announced to the House of Commons that because of continued unease about the case and after discussions with the Lord Chief Justice , he had ordered the release of Cooper and McMahon from prison . |
| 8 | Prime Minister John Major announced to the House of Commons on Dec. 9 that the Prince and Princess of Wales , who married in 1981 [ see p. 31116 ] , were to separate but that they had no plans to divorce and that their constitutional positions were unaffected , adding : " There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned queen in due course . " |
| 9 | Hall went to the House of Lords , and the new First Commissioner of Works was Henry Fitzroy , the MP for Lewes in Sussex and son of Lord Southampton . |
| 10 | There is a story in the Acts of the Apostles which describes how Peter , after he had escaped from prison , went to the house of Mary , the mother of John Mark ( Acts 12:12 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ No thanks , ’ he replied , his face as long as a landslide , ‘ I once went to the House of Commons to see how the country was run . |
| 12 | Flaubert went to the house of Kuchuk Hanem , a famous Cairene courtesan reduced to eking out a living in this provincial backwater . |
| 13 | When the Bill went to the House of Lords this system was rejected on the grounds that it was undemocratic . |
| 14 | We often went to the house of Don Cattabianchi , the priest of Santa Croce , a very eccentric but equally intelligent and learned man . |
| 15 | He disputed the design of the trick box produced by Stolley and Evans , and the case went to the House of Lords , who found against him . |
| 16 | The case went to the House of Lords , where Hill won the £1 damages for which he had asked , with costs . |
| 17 | Even though this case went to the House of Lords no disagreement with that statement of principle is found in the judgments there . |
| 18 | Indeed , a dispute over the oyster beds proceeded to the House of Lords in 1883 . |
| 19 | He took his gun and marched to the house of his best friend , Phil Lowe , where Miss Gibson was staying , and demanded to see her . |
| 20 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 21 | However , of the 34 trade and consumer bodies and enforcement authorities which responded to the House of Commons Select Committee , the majority said the differences between PGI and PDO categories were ‘ too ill-defined to be readily discernible and , moreover , failed to offer other benefits . ’ |
| 22 | I hurried to the house of the sick man , which was a bamboo hut with a palm leaf roof like the schoolroom in which I was sleeping . |