Example sentences of "member of the house of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chicago was reminded that defeating an incumbent member of the House of Representatives is not easy . |
| 2 | Schwarzenberg was bishop of Salzburg and archbishop of Prague , yet managed to combine this holy status with being a member of the House of Parliament and of the Reichsstaat . |
| 3 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones set up one of the first and best organised of them in Newcastle Wynne-Jones 's work for the Labour Party , added to his success as a chemist , made him a clear choice as a working member of the House of Lords . |
| 4 | One who inherits a title whilst a Member of the House of Commons or a candidate for a seat in it can remain or become a Member for only one month before disclaiming . |
| 5 | The House of Commons ( Clergy Disqualification ) Act 1801 provides that ‘ no person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon , or being a minister of the Church of Scotland , is or shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ whilst s.9 of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 states that ‘ No person in holy orders in the Church of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ . |
| 6 | The House of Commons ( Clergy Disqualification ) Act 1801 provides that ‘ no person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon , or being a minister of the Church of Scotland , is or shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ whilst s.9 of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 states that ‘ No person in holy orders in the Church of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ . |
| 7 | When a politician with an interest to maintain was a member of the House of Lords , the practice of taking appeals from the Scottish courts to the Upper House of Parliament afforded the politician further opportunities to oblige his friends . |
| 8 | John Beckett , formerly an ILP member of the House of Commons , was won for Fascism after hearing one of Joyce 's first addresses to a rally in 1933 at Paddington Baths . |
| 9 | One member of the House of Lords put it succinctly in 1884 : ‘ Very few of their Lordships … had not , when young men , been guilty of immorality . |
| 10 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 11 | the member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts ; |
| 12 | Since 1977 , no judge sitting in the High Court , or the Court of Appeal or the House of Lords ( as a Law Lord ) had formerly been a Member of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | It was possible , however , for a member of the House of Orange ( the descendants of William the Silent , the leader of the struggle for independence against Spain in the later sixteenth century ) to be elected Stadtholder of all or most of the provinces and thus attain the position of General Stadtholder of the federation . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is of course a great expert in hypocrisy , and in the Community too — because he served as a European Member of Parliament when he was last defeated as a Member of the House of Commons ; no doubt he will have to return there after the next general election . |
| 15 | Robert Garcia , a Democratic member of the House of Representatives for New York , resigned his seat on Jan. 7 shortly before being sentenced for his role in the Wedtech corruption case . |
| 16 | A federal Appeals Court of the Second Circuit on July 29 overturned the convictions against Robert Garcia , a former member of the House of Representatives , and his wife Jane Lee Garcia . |
| 17 | The loss of documents would prove a severe problem for officials in the short term , and ten days after the fire Lawrence Gibbs , a Grenada United Labour Party ( GULP ) member of the House of Representatives , joined the ruling NDC to show " national unity " , thus reducing GULP 's representation to two . |
| 18 | Edward R. Madigan , a member of the House of Representatives for 18 years , was nominated to replace Yeutter as Agriculture Secretary . |
| 19 | Chatichai , leader of the Chart Thai Party and a member of the House of Representatives , had served as Prime Minister since 1988 [ see pp. 36149-50 ] . |
| 20 | Koirala announced a new Cabinet on May 29 which included one woman ( Sailja Acharya ) and only one person who not been elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Basu Dev Risal ) . |
| 21 | His chief rival , Roniti Teiwaki , an independent member of the House of Assembly for South Tarawa , polled 41.9 per cent , with the remainder of the vote being shared by Beniamina Tinga and Boanareke Boanareke . |
| 22 | The only member of the House of Representatives representing the new party was Jim Anderton , leader and founder of the NLP in 1989 . |
| 23 | He was replaced by Edelmiro Amante , a member of the House of Representatives . |
| 24 | In primary elections held on Sept. 22 , Steven Solarz , a New York member of the House of Representatives and former leading member of the House foreign affairs committee , who was deeply involved in the House " rubbergate " scandal [ see p. 38807 ] , failed to secure his party 's nomination . |
| 25 | For this ballot the scrutineers will prepare a ballot paper listing the names of the candidates and give a copy for the purpose of balloting to each Member of the House of Commons in receipt of the Conservative whip . |
| 26 | the Leader ceasing to be a Member of the House of Commons ( other than a temporary cessation by reason of a dissolution ) ; |
| 27 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 28 | David as some colleagues will know is a member of the House of Lords and there is n't much radical thought in the House of Lords . |