Example sentences of "learned member for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) gave us the benefit of his legal experience . |
| 2 | The hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) persisted in talking about the new harsher penalties that would be available under the Bill . |
| 3 | But that was not the burden of the case made by the hon. and learned Member for Burton , any more than it was the Home Secretary 's case when he spoke in commendation of the Bill . |
| 4 | I can see the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) in his place across the Chamber . |
| 5 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 6 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 7 | The Government must find an answer to that key point , which was made by the hon. and learned Member for Burton , who has long experience at the Bar , and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 8 | It was refreshing to hear the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) express his misgivings about this part of the Bill . |
| 9 | As the hon. and learned Member for Burton said , that reversal could easily lead to miscarriages of justice that we could sort out now . |
| 10 | The evidence is overwhelming ; we must address crime prevention far more successfully if we are to achieve the reductions referred to by the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West . |
| 11 | I congratulate the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West ( Mr. Archer ) , with whom I have debated closely during the past three or four years , on his good fortune in getting this debate at a rather fashionable hour — earlier than the watches of the night — during the Consolidated Fund debate . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North characteristically set the record straight about manpower allocations in the police force and about the critical role of Her Majesty 's chief inspector of constabulary in objectively advising the Home Secretary on correct force levels and on the identification of posts suitable for civilianisation — for that releases policemen and women from desk jobs and puts them back on the beat , which is what the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West wants . |
| 13 | The right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West first discussed the causes of crime . |
| 14 | Hon. and learned Member for Warrington South , Mr. Mark Carlisle Q.C. , on 1 March 1985 that no life sentence prisoner will be detained for more than 17 years without a formal review of his case even where the period thought necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence exceeds 20 years . |
| 15 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 16 | That is hardly surprising , because since I embarked upon this historical analysis I have been quoting virtually verbatim from a speech made on 16 December 1976 in this House by the now right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) , which can be found at columns 1832 and 1833 of the Official Report for that date . |
| 17 | Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member . |
| 18 | We want to know — The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) can leap up and tell me — the House would be delighted to hear from him — how he will cover the difference between the £10 billion of extra taxation to which his party has already committed itself and the £35 billion of extra spending to which it has also committed itself ? |
| 19 | Given that an extra £2.8 billion was found , has my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State received an apology from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , or have any of Labour 's Front-Bench spokesmen for health offered to withdraw that allegation ? |
| 20 | When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ? |
| 21 | The shadow Chancellor , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was a member of that Government . |
| 22 | I noted this morning that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) now at last admits that there is a world situation which is on a downturn . |
| 23 | I am sure that it will be interesting to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) to know that Labour Members advocate such tax increases . |
| 24 | We know that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) proposes a number of additions to existing taxation and a number of new taxes , including the reappearance of investment income surcharge . |
| 25 | Presumably the same principle would apply to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) and the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) . |
| 26 | I also note that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) — who said , when he took on the job that there would be ’ no more phoney shadow Cabinet Budgets ’ — has now promised that there will be a phoney shadow Cabinet Budget . |
| 27 | The fact is that the world is in an economic slow-down , as even the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) has now acknowledged . |
| 28 | That was the reduction of interest rates immediately on the back of the stock exchange crash , but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , we were urged to cut them even more by the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 29 | When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors . |
| 30 | However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league . |