Example sentences of "in the house of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the December 1989 elections the UDI , the party closest to Pinochet , had emerged as the weaker of the two right-wing opposition parties , winning 11 seats in the House of Deputies and five in the Senate . |
| 2 | His literary theories were trenchantly expressed in Hieroglyphics ( 1902 ) , and his supernatural tales collected in The House of Souls ( 1906 ) . |
| 3 | The Japan Socialist Party ( JSP ) , the country 's leading opposition grouping , comfortably retained a seat in the House of Councillors ( the upper chamber of the Diet ) at a by-election in Fukuoka Prefecture , in southern Japan , on June 10 . |
| 4 | However , plans to send members of the Japanese armed forces to the Gulf in a non-combat role had collapsed in November after Kaifu failed to secure the necessary bipartisan support for the measure 's approval in the House of Councillors — the upper chamber of the Diet — where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 5 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 6 | Philip , understandably , selects those passages revealing his uneasy situation in the house of Cis and Elfed . |
| 7 | The Institute 's Bank Watch initiative is to be championed in the House of commons amid continued concern about the attitude of banks towards the construction industry . |
| 8 | I remember Mr Alan Clarke who was then minister of responsibility saying rather elliptically in the house of commons that the removal of blood hound did nothing to degrade Britain 's air defence . |
| 9 | A bill to grant posthumous pardons to all three hundred and seven British soldiers who were executed in the first world war , has gained a formal first reading in the house of commons . |
| 10 | A hung parlian A hung parliament To get into parliament in the house of commons you 've got to have a thirty percent majority . |
| 11 | Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies . |
| 12 | There 's certainly a lot of passion about this in the house of lords . |
| 13 | I do n't think that I could ever support the Peyton amendment , the amendment in the house of lords , which if I get it right , would permit B R as an organization to bid for franchises . |
| 14 | Although the LDP 's overall majority in the House of Representatives ensured that the proposal would have been approved by the lower chamber , the party 's minority position in the House of Counsellors ( where it controlled 113 of the 252 seats ) made approval in the upper house unlikely . |
| 15 | Voting was 30 to 17 in favour in the House of Bishops , 149 to 85 in the House of Clergy and 144 to 78 in the House of Laity . |
| 16 | A survey by BBC Radio Four 's Today programme says it is still very uncertain that the majority will be reached in the House of Clergy and the House of Laity . |
| 17 | I have to acquaint the House that this House has this day attended Her Majesty in the House of Peers , and that Her Majesty was pleased to make a Most Gracious Speech from the Throne to both Houses of Parliament , of which I have , for greater accuracy , obtained a copy . |
| 18 | The Democratic leadership in the Senate is anxious to reverse the handsome victory by Mr Bush in the House of Representatives last week , when 64 Democrats voted with the Republicans to sweep through a two-year cut in capital gains taxes . |
| 19 | Gains made this week by abortion-rights groups in the Florida legislature , in governors ' races in New Jersey and Virginia , and in the House of Representatives have weighted the balance markedly toward the pro-abortion forces . |
| 20 | The Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act , which would require canned tuna to be labelled as to whether it is ‘ dolphin-safe' ’ , received 126 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives , and is to be debated early in 1990 . |
| 21 | Ramon Mitra has proved to be a competent Speaker in the House of Representatives . |
| 22 | When he visited Parliament he was shown to a seat beside the Speaker in the House of Representatives . |
| 23 | cf. American Notes , 17 : ‘ hear the public opinion of the free South , as expressed by its own members in the House of Representatives at Washington … |
| 24 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 25 | Last year , surfing on a wave of resentment against Texas , they managed to cancel the SSC in the House of Representatives , though it was saved in the Senate . |
| 26 | His economic plan was made to be tougher on the deficit in the House of Representatives , and may be made tougher still in the Senate . |
| 27 | Some say that this is still a ‘ jobless ’ recovery ; or at least , as Dick Gephardt , the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives , argued on May 11th , a recovery with no good jobs . |
| 28 | Richard Gephardt , the majority leader in the House of Representatives , warned him that if he introduced health-care reform on the coat-tails of his budget , it would be seen as a tax issue rather than a health issue . |
| 29 | After some of the most tense days in the capital in recent years , a vote on Bill Clinton 's economic plan was scheduled to take place in the House of Representatives on May 27th . |
| 30 | Particularly in the House of Representatives , constituency service is regarded as the key to re-election and arguably , as a consequence of their single-minded pursuit of this strategy , almost all incumbents seeking re-election to the House are successful . |