Example sentences of "by a house " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature . |
| 2 | Certainly the Home Office was unable to come up with a convincing case against such scrutiny by a House which is ‘ elected to protect the democratic rights of [ the ] people ’ . |
| 3 | A particularly scathing review of urban initiatives in Merseyside ( undertaken by a House of Commons environment committee ) makes this clear ( House of Commons Environment Committee , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Although Jonadab did not believe in the old country superstition that an elder bush planted by a house kept away witches , he was a firm believer that it deflected lightning during a storm . |
| 5 | Not far from there , at 7 rue Delta , he had hired a pavilion due for demolition for these artists ( it has long since gone and been replaced by a house ) . |
| 6 | Sixteen years later Clive was asked by a House of Commons committee about the way this had happened . |
| 7 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |
| 8 | Not for the tsetse fly the hundreds deposited as eggs by a house fly . |
| 9 | An infant suspected of having pyloric stenosis would usually be assessed by a house officer in the casualty department and then referred for a surgical consultation . |
| 10 | Growing criticism was once more reflected in a report by a House of Commons committee , this time the General Subcommittee of the Expenditure Committee ( HC 718,1975–6 ) , and the economic crisis of 1976 brought another set of important changes . |