Example sentences of "[prep] private [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABILL improving guarantees on cars and household goods has a good chance of becoming law because it is being introduced by the MP who topped the ballot for private members ' bills . |
| 2 | The top seven , all Tories apart from Mr Jones , have the most chance of success , since business managers have set aside seven Fridays for private members ' bills . |
| 3 | Governments acquiesce in the House allotting the 20 Fridays mentioned above for Private Members ' motions ( 10 days ) and Bills ( 10 days ) . |
| 4 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 5 | The subsequent stages are again the same as in the case of Government Bills except that there is a special standing committee for Private Members ' Bills . |
| 6 | ( ii ) The ‘ 10 minute ’ rule This is a development of the method of introducing a Bill by motion now rarely used in the case of Government Bills and it is extremely rare for legislation to result from its use for Private Members ' Bill purposes . |
| 7 | The Keep Sunday Special Campaign has been fortunate in getting its proposals for reform of the legislation for Sunday trading drawn out in the ballot for Private Members ' Bills . |
| 8 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 9 | ( b ) Ten Fridays and four half days are given for private members ' motions . |
| 10 | The whips agree to give a certain amount of time for private members ' bills and private members ' motions , but they then encourage all their own backbenchers to ballot for these opportunities . |
| 11 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 12 | As an OECD study notes the borderline between public and private enterprises is difficult to draw … some enterprises are more public than others , some are only nominally public and have all the essential characteristics of private organizations ' ( 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 13 | All MPs with private members ' bills scheduled for this session have already got their bills under way following normal procedures . |
| 14 | In a re-run Senate by-election in Lublin on June 11 , the Citizens ' Committee candidate won almost 51 per cent of the vote against his opponent from Private Farmers ' Solidarity who took just over 48 per cent . |
| 15 | It was potentially a valuable and interesting debate , but , as happened during the debate on constitutional reform on 17 May , which was also held in private Members ' time , time has become rather squeezed , mainly because the Conservatives seem keen to spin out the debate through their speeches and interventions instead of allowing a proper debate . |
| 16 | Barbara Conway , the former Daily Telegraph journalist , who was until recently publicity officer of the new watchdog over the financial services industry , The Securities and Investment Board ( SIB ) , has criticised the practices of Harvard Securities over a period of years in her reporting based on private investors ' comments . |
| 17 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 18 | In response to parliamentary questions , demanding that the government introduce their own bill rather than relying on private members ' initiatives , the Home Office made its familiar position clear : ‘ We strongly support the proposed Bill … but do not see how it is possible for the Government to undertake legislation . ’ |
| 19 | Closures were mainly among private girls ' schools and included : Berisford House , Eastbourne , 35 redundancies ; St Stephen 's School , Broadstairs , Kent , 36 ; St Brandon 's School , Cleveland , 56 ; St Audrie 's , Somerset , four ; Oakdeane School , Beaconsfield , Bucks , 40 ; Humanby Hall , North Yorkshire , 28 ; and College of Sacred Hearts , Weymouth , Dorset , seven . |
| 20 | Even when mortgage debt is added to all other consumer debt , to give a total of £50,000 to £55,000 million outstanding in 1978 , this was comfortably topped by private individuals ' deposits with banks and building societies alone , which amounted then to some £60,000 million . |