Example sentences of "[verb] in the commons " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 1,400 civilian workers at the training station for naval recruits will be told the news at 3.30pm , and a statement is expected in the Commons shortly after . |
| 2 | An MP has claimed in the Commons that car boot sales are being used by thieves to get rid of stolen goods . |
| 3 | And they were stunned at how he allowed yesterday — the day of his biggest ever test in the Commons — to be dominated by phone calls and meetings about the future of his friend . |
| 4 | The outcome , however , was unchanged ; the compromise clause meeting the same fate as the amendment suspending the death penalty , being carried in the Commons , but again defeated in the Lords . |
| 5 | Not only would she be able to stand in the Commons bar and glare at Conservatives who betrayed her during the leadership contest , thus putting them off their ill-earned whiskies , but chastise those responsible for mishandling the Tory campaign . |
| 6 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 7 | Perhaps petitions could be presented in the Commons . |
| 8 | Langbaurgh and Middlesbrough councils were among ten councils named in the Commons by Environment Secretary Michael Howard . |
| 9 | Writing in the Commons Diary in the Arbroath Herald in January , 1982 , the MP Peter Fraser commented about a meeting with Eva Burrows . |
| 10 | In the event , no more than a single amendment was made in the Commons . |
| 11 | Protests were made in the Commons over the exclusion of Argyll and Bute and western parts of Moray from the regional grant earmarked by the European Commission for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 12 | Adding these to the other elements of the claim and demands for extra London weighting , Mr Clarke had said in the Commons that ambulance workers were looking for ‘ rather a lot more money ’ . |
| 13 | Labour 's John Smith has said in the Commons that the Prime Minister 's authority and that of his Government is in tatters . |
| 14 | Labour MP Don Dixon had said in the Commons on Tuesday that he believed Mr Fallon could have abused Parliament 's pre-paid mailing facilities . |
| 15 | In July 1985 the government was nearly defeated in the Commons over a vote to reduce the Lord Chancellor 's salary . |
| 16 | It is true that the Government is rarely defeated in the Commons , while the Lords can kick their heels by voting against them . |
| 17 | Suppose that within the five-year term the Government were defeated in the Commons on a topic so important that it regarded it as a matter of confidence in itself . |
| 18 | He made it clear that he thought a minority Labour government would have no right to a dissolution if it was rapidly defeated in the Commons . |
| 19 | Labour 's suspicions were immediately aroused that Asquith 's speech at the National Liberal Club was part of an ‘ Establishment ’ plot to deny Labour fair play , and that a Labour government defeated in the Commons would be denied the right which other governments had enjoyed , of an immediate dissolution . |
| 20 | The King was particularly anxious to dispel the view expressed by Campbell Stephen and Lansbury that he was hostile to Labour ; and he told J. C. C. Davidson , a confidant of Baldwin , on 21 January after the Conservatives had been defeated in the Commons , that ‘ it was essential that their rights under the Constitution should in no way be impaired ’ . |
| 21 | LORD TEBBIT vowed yesterday that the ‘ wretched ’ Maastricht treaty could still be defeated in the Commons , despite the setback to the Euro-rebels over the social chapter . |
| 22 | The Government was defeated in the Commons last week over a Labour move requiring Britain 's 24 full representatives and 24 alternate representatives on the committee of the regions , an EC advisory body , to be elected councillors . |
| 23 | THE Prime Minister was yesterday accused in the Commons of ‘ covering up the incompetence ’ of Chancellor Norman Lamont . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher confirmed in the Commons that ministers were reconsidering their opposition to a sustained campaign by an all-party group of MPs . |
| 25 | TWO ESSEX MPs clashed in the Commons yesterday over the likely impact on the south of the county of the proposed high speed Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher and Neil Kinnock have clashed in the Commons over the poll tax , but there 's still no word from the Government on how or when it might soften the tax . |
| 27 | Neil Kinnock and Mrs Thatcher have clashed in the Commons over Britain 's entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 28 | A decision on the knife-edge procedural wrangling is expected today when the committee stage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill resumes in the Commons . |
| 29 | THE BBC 's new director general John Birt should repay ‘ all the tax avoided ’ when he was paid as a freelance consultant , the Prime Minister was told in the Commons yesterday . |
| 30 | Bryan Davies ( Oldham Central and Royton ) and Dennis Skinner ( Bolsover ) claimed in the Commons that Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Agriculture Minister John Gummer chartered special flights to fly back from holiday in Normandy . |