Example sentences of "sit in the [adj] parliament " in BNC.
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| 1 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 2 | erm But he seems to have played things rather cool later on , he disappears at the beginning of the war but comes back into Oxford , and then later , actually sits in the Royalist Parliament , 1644 , which he certainly would n't have done if he was still on parliament 's side . |
| 3 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 4 | There is a unicameral parliament ( Lagting or Loegting ) and two Faroese representatives sit in the Danish parliament . |
| 5 | There is a unicameral parliament ( Lagting or Loegting ) and two Faroese representatives sit in the Danish parliament . |
| 6 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 7 | He survived the abolition of the county committee in 1650 , and sat in the Nominated Parliament of 1653 . |