Example sentences of "seat in [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its occupant had an instant seat in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | Michael Stewart moved to take the place of Patrick Gordon Walker , Wilson 's choice as Foreign Secretary , who had twice failed to secure the necessary seat in the House of Commons . |
| 3 | He took his seat in the House of Lords on 4th July , 1859 , ‘ but never took much part in the debates ’ . |
| 4 | On the death of his father , the 5th Duke , he succeeded to the Dukedom of Montrose , and took his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | But Jamie Blandford can inherit a dukedom , a palace and a lifelong seat in the House of Lords without anything more than his blood to recommend him . |
| 6 | In the same way , the conferment of a peerage confers merely an inchoate right to a seat in the House of Lords . |
| 7 | When , on the only occasion in British parliamentary history , a Communist Party member was returned ( Willie Gallacher , at the Motherwell by-election of 1944 ) and he asserted his right to take his seat in the House without sponsorship ( as is the House 's custom ) the House refused him admission and he was obliged to seek the support of two independent members next day . |
| 8 | All other peers may now take a seat in the House of Lords and may not participate in the election of Members of the House of Commons . |
| 9 | Whilst he may stand , however , it does not follow , even if successful , that he will be allowed to take his seat in the House . |
| 10 | And then the warm-ups in September for the World Cup were followed by the best seat in the house for the World Cup , the ideally placed bench for the Irish replacements . |
| 11 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 12 | ‘ The film was exciting — among the under 8s there was n't a dry seat in the house . ’ |
| 13 | ( During the interval he was in fact offered a judgeship , which he declined , but it was made clear that the government could not long countenance a Solicitor-General without a seat in the House of Commons . ) |
| 14 | He took his seat in the House in February 1833 , but did not enjoy his position for long as , in the following month , he caught a chill and died in London 28 March 1833 . |
| 15 | He was sworn clerk of the parliaments on 30 January 1610 , relinquishing his seat in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | One final boost and he would be up among the true stars , all guidance systems go for a seat in the House of Lords upon retirement . |
| 17 | The Japan Socialist Party ( JSP ) , the country 's leading opposition grouping , comfortably retained a seat in the House of Councillors ( the upper chamber of the Diet ) at a by-election in Fukuoka Prefecture , in southern Japan , on June 10 . |
| 18 | In Vermont , the state 's single seat in the House of Representatives was won by Bernie Saunders , an independent socialist . |
| 19 | He also stated his intention to resign his seat in the House ( as a representative of Pennsylvania ) and to accept the presidency of the United Negro College Fund ( UNCF ) , an organization established in 1944 to help blacks gain access to a college education . |
| 20 | A seat in the House of Representatives for Massachusetts , held for 32 years by the late Silvio O. Conte ( Republican ) , was won by the Democrats at a special election on June 4 ; John Olver , a liberal Democrat and strong supporter of abortion rights , narrowly defeated conservative Republican Steven Pierce , an opponent of abortion . |
| 21 | In so doing , however , the party lost its leader , Janine Haines , who gave up her seat in the Senate in an unsuccessful attempt to win a seat in the House of Representatives ( in which the party had no members ) . |
| 22 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 23 | I 'll bet there wo n't be an empty seat in the house . ’ |
| 24 | The SDP man 's compensation for his years of public sevice was a seat in the House of Lords . |
| 25 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 26 | In a general election , in December , the Conservatives , although winning more seats in the House of Commons , than either the labour or Liberal parties , had fewer than their total . |
| 27 | What colour are the seats in the House of Commons ? |
| 28 | What colour are the seats in the House of Lords ? |
| 29 | There are , however , at this stage no specific individuals entitled to claim seats in the House of Commons , not even the Ministers of the Crown who continue in office . |
| 30 | It is the function of elections to identify claimants to seats in the House of Commons . |