Example sentences of "and [pron] [adj] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 2 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 3 | However , almost all my political connections were on the Left and my Labour friends , acquired relatively late in life ( apart from George Wigg , most of them after I was forty years of age ) , were a source of delight and novelty to me . |
| 4 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
| 5 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 6 | Which is a hard enough life for any man , and my old friend has retired now . |
| 7 | Yes , but is my Noble Friend aware that the point of view expressed in the question put by the Noble Lord , Lord and my Noble Friend the Noble Lord would represent the point of view of most parents who are concerned about having religious education at the beginning ? |
| 8 | but how ever it is compiled it would run contrary to the principles which my Noble Friend Lord Motterstone and my Noble Friend Lord Rippon have already stated and would stated in all parts of the House . |
| 9 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 10 | The formula for opening a case is : ‘ May it please your lordship(s) , I am appearing with Mr/Miss. — for the plaintiff ( prosecution ) ( appellant ) , and my learned friends Mr — and Mr — are for the defendant ( respondent ) ( Crown ) . |
| 11 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations . |
| 12 | I am delighted to accept those congratulations , not least on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary , who have spearheaded the campaign . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , there are perils associated with the matter , and my hon. Friend has identified a number of them . |
| 14 | We do indeed have one of the best health services in the European Community , and my hon. Friend is right to emphasise its strengths . |
| 15 | The recruitment of those officers began immediately , and my hon. Friend will be pleased to know that more than 100 additional RUC and RUC reserve recruits were taken into training in December . |
| 16 | for teachers ' pay , so the differential between Hampshire and my hon. Friend 's county is only 5 per cent . |
| 17 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) , the hon. Member for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) touched on aspects of British Rail to which I was tempted to respond . |
| 19 | I join the hon. Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) in paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet , South ( Mr. Aitken ) , who proposed and seconded the Loyal Address . |
| 20 | of a local authority 's revenue will come from the council tax , and my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) said that in some local authorities the percentage will be even lower . |
| 21 | I am glad that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment and my hon. Friend the Minister are on the Front Bench . |
| 22 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment and my hon. Friend the Minister have made clear , the community charge is to be replaced at the earliest opportunity . |
| 23 | Both the hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friend were perhaps slightly unfair to the European Community in their assessment of what it has done . |
| 24 | I and my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian ( Mr. Eadie ) have twice met the new chairman of British Coal . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Minister have achieved in the Bill a delicate balance between encouragement of the private utilities so that they remain profitable and strengthening consumer interests , without excessive bureaucracy . |
| 26 | He and my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield posed the best question of the debate when they asked whether it could apply to rail . |
| 27 | In a short speech , I shall not attempt to make again the points made so tellingly by others , not least my right hon. Friends the Members for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Plymouth , Devonport ( Dr. Owen ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford ( Mr. Cash ) . |
| 28 | The median has a precise mathematical definition which is absolutely right , and my hon. Friend is correct in saying that the median is bound to alter if the number at the bottom of the scale is changed . |
| 29 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 30 | I agree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton and my hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale on that point . |