Example sentences of "friend the [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley , West ( Mr. Archer ) on initiating the debate .
2 On that , I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley , West ( Mr. Archer ) .
3 I bow to the knowledge of people like my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley , West on the technicalities of the law , but the Attorney-General 's comments satisfied neither me nor my constituents .
4 This has been a most interesting debate , and I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Warley , West ( Mr. Archer ) on introducing it .
5 Will he undertake to support the Bill to be introduced by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) ?
6 My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) referred to the need to give prisoners some work .
7 As my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton said that the work should ideally enable prisoners to earn a remission on part of their sentence , or it could earn money to pay compensation to victims .
8 My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that .
9 I remind the right hon. Gentleman that , under Labour in the 1970s , the prison population grew by about 15 per cent. , while capital spending was cut by 20 per cent. , a fact to which my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) referred earlier .
10 My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton referred to the 1,000 members of the Prison Service Union , which is seeking recognition from the Home Office .
11 I agree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton and my hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale on that point .
12 We have heard speeches not only by my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West , who initiated the debate , and the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West but by the hon. Members for Leicester , East ( Mr. Vaz ) , for Rutland and Melton ( Mr. Latham ) , for Harborough ( Sir J. Farr ) , for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) , for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) , and for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) , my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) and the right hon. Members for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) and the hon. Members for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) , for Houghton and Washington ( Mr. Boyes ) , the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery ( Mr. Carlile ) , and the Opposition Chief Whip .
13 I say that because some lawyers have spoken — my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) and the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) .
14 My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton is a member of the council of Justice — an organisation for which I have great respect and which operates under the presidency of Lord Alexander of Weedon .
15 My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes .
16 The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so .
17 If he does not understand it , I guarantee that if my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) catches the eye of the Chair , even the hon. Gentleman will be fully educated on the matter .
18 The proposals for the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the Parliament should be part of the negotiating brief for United Kingdom Ministers at Maastricht , as should proposals on economic and monetary union , to which my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) hopes to refer later in the debate .
19 I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for .
20 In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do .
21 When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right .
22 My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) summed it up brilliantly — it is the state of the depression .
23 I agree with my right hon. Friend that the intervention of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N.
24 It was almost exactly a year ago that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) resigned , with momentous consequences for the politics of our country .
25 As my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) said , the Community is a living thing .
26 Indeed , my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) , in a speech right out of the defeatist book which is kept at the Foreign Office , seemed to declare that a nation with its own currency could not survive in the days of the ecu .
27 My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) , the former Foreign Secretary , advanced some curious concepts of constitutional independence .
28 May I join the hon. member for Rutland and Melton ( Mr. Latham ) in condemning the cowardly attacks made on the character of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) .
29 I rise to speak briefly — principally , like so many others , because of my high regard for my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) and his family , whom I know , including his father and mother .
30 My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West has had his name in all the newspapers , and in one newspaper in particular .
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