Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the house of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 2 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 3 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |
| 4 | The last sentence was the cue for Miss Horsbrugh to announce to the House of Commons in April that the 10% Cut would be withdrawn and a Committee of Enquiry into adult education established instead . |
| 5 | After an optimistic report on May 30 that an official announcement would be made soon by Brooke stating that formal talks would be forthcoming between the principal constitutional parties about the political future of the province , Brook was on July 5 able to give to the House of Commons only an abridged version of the statement he had hope to make . |
| 6 | He would be unlikely to give the Archangel Gabriel a run for his money and he should not be allowed to run to the House of Lords . ’ |
| 7 | WHILE Michael Foot makes it plain he does not wish to go to the House of Lords after the election , at least one senior Tory leaving the Lower House may also remain a commoner . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Mrs Thatcher — shortly to go to the House of Lords — welcomed the election outcome : she said : ‘ It was a famous victory with a clear majority . |
| 9 | Mrs Chalker , who is to go to the House of Lords , resumes ministerial responsibilities tomorrow when she travels to Budapest for a meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 10 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 11 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 12 | The judges awarded the Home Office costs , but granted leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 13 | He hoped the Medical Defence Union would support a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords and the European Court . |
| 14 | The Revenue was granted leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 15 | Refusing leave to appeal to the House of Lords , Lord Justice Bingham said the sums claimed by Lloyd 's represented money out of which Mr Cameron-Webb had tried to cheat syndicates for which he acted . |
| 16 | The local authority was refused leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 17 | Mr Anthony Scrivener , QC , for the defendants , said he would be seeking leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 18 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals , but granted leave to appeal to the House of Lords on the grounds that points of law of general public importance were involved . |
| 20 | Gavin Drewry 's analysis of the grant and refusal of leave to appeal to the House of Lords in 1971 demonstrated that leave was routinely refused in cases where the second appeal raised issues of review , that leave was granted in cases involving issues of supervision , and that there was a mixture of refusals and grants in cases falling in the grey area of reconsideration of authority without critical re-appraisal of the cases ( Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 21 | The discretionary nature of the grant of leave to appeal to the House of Lords avoids any suggestion that there might be abuse of such an approach . |
| 22 | The court certified the following point of law of general public importance but refused leave to appeal to the House of Lords : |
| 23 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 24 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 25 | ( Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was granted but not pursued . ) |
| 26 | But the Aga Khan 's solicitor , Matthew McCloy , said yesterday : ‘ You can take it that it is not His Highness 's present intention to appeal to the House of Lords . ’ |
| 27 | The government was ordered to pay all legal costs and the Court refused the Environment Secretary leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 28 | Paragraph 8. 10 ( c ) of the PAC 's 1981 report , The Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General , stated that the present arrangements for the financial audit of nationalized industries should continue but that the C & AG should have access to the books and records of these bodies in order to enable him to report to the House of Commons ( paragraph 4.16 — 4.19 ) . |
| 29 | In Canada , for example , the Auditor General Act of 1977 requires the Auditor General to report to the House of Commons when : ‘ money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency , or satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report the effectiveness of programs , where such procedures could appropriately and reasonably be implemented ’ . |
| 30 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |