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

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1 However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government .
2 My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich , North ( Mr. Thompson ) is grateful for what has been done to help him with the preservation of his local Anglian Regiment .
3 A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ?
4 My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) must be right to say that pay should increasingly be linked to performance .
5 The first point was given by the hon. Gentleman 's hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) on 26 March in an interview on the ’ Today ’ programme .
6 The Secretary of State has consistently misrepresented the position of my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) and all the statements that the Labour party has made about the matter .
7 He talked about what my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said .
8 My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) corrects me : it is rather that Brian Walden will visit the Secretary of State for lunch and take the cameras with him .
9 If he looks at the dates of all those expressions , he will see that we published our statement in May , even after my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) had made his remarks .
10 That document was in response to that produced by my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) on devolution and democracy .
11 As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said , the spokesmen got themselves into an even bigger twist over the question whether cost should be the primary basis on which to judge a contract , or whether then to introduce another element so as to ensure that white collar services can be won by the private sector .
12 Clause 5 was commented on by the hon. Member for Sedgefield and by my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney ( Mr. Porter ) .
13 I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , North ( Mr. Jones ) .
14 The Minister will be aware of the valuable contribution that is made by members of the Somali community in this country and of the tremendous work that is done on their behalf by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) .
15 Like my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) , I support the redevelopment of Cardiff docks .
16 In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group .
17 I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette .
18 The notion that we do not have to have anything to do with those who want to smoke is odious , as my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) has said .
19 I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , North ( Mr. Jones ) on securing the debate , which is much prized .
20 Further to the point of order , Mr. Speaker , raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham ( Mr. Grant ) .
21 The debate has been marred only by the snide remarks of the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) about my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham ( Mr. Grant ) .
22 Although my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing ( Mr. Higgins ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham ( Sir P. Hordern ) mentioned in interventions yesterday a situation in my county of West Sussex which is replicated in many other local authority areas , there should be an opportunity — within order — to raise matters of concern and to obtain assurances from Ministers about them .
23 The answer that he gave my hon. Friend the Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) and the answer that he has just given have comprehensively shot a number of foxes , but one is still up and running .
24 We have supplied the answers that the Minister refused to give to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) this afternoon .
25 The fact that the alternative was a stretch version of the A330 would have meant , as my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) said , that both the wings and the aero engines would have been manufactured in Britain .
26 As my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgend ( Mr. Griffiths ) said , when Alaric the Goth attacked the Roman empire in 410 AD , he found that it was a piece of cake to sack Rome because the use of lead piping had softened the brains and determination of the Roman establishment .
27 I give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt and assume that he did not hear what I said , not once but twice , perhaps because of the noise coming from his hon. Friend the Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , seated beside him , who referred to 236 admissions .
28 The recent report of the National Foundation for Educational Research did not attribute any decline to the national curriculum ; the interpretation placed on it by the hon. Lady and her hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Southall ( Mr. Bidwell ) is based on a deliberate misreading of the report .
29 It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) .
30 On Second Reading on 8 May 1989 , at column 617 , my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) was asked why British Rail had changed its mind about the need for a high-speed rail link .
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