Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to parliament " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the best official estimates for the number of lone-parent families in 1981 suggest that there were in fact some 900 000 such families in Great Britain ( see Haskey , 1986 , who indicates that an estimate of 825 000 lone-parent families for 1978 was given to Parliament in 1981 ) . |
| 2 | The withdrawal of derogations was disclosed to Parliament by Junior Minister Colin Moynihan on 20 January the following year . |
| 3 | As is explained later in the book , despite the high-sounding words with which the Bill was presented to Parliament it is a complete sham . |
| 4 | The recommendations of the Royal Commission 's report of 1889 ( Chapter 6 ) were embodied in a Bill which was presented to Parliament , and needed to be introduced four times before it was finally accepted onto the Statute book . |
| 5 | This was presented to parliament in June 1988 . |
| 6 | In the circumstances , another Bill was presented to Parliament , entitled The Croydon & District Electric Tramways ( Extensions ) Bill 1903 , offering alternative routings to those thrown out in the 1902 Act . |
| 7 | But the issue touched many more than just the activists in the women 's movement : a petition demanding that the allowance ‘ be given to every mother for every child ’ was presented to Parliament with 300 000 signatures ( Fleming , 1973 ; Castle , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | Iliescu also announced on June 20 the nomination of Petre Roman as Prime Minister , calling on him to form a new government , which was presented to parliament on June 28 . |
| 9 | A detailed five-year development plan , drawn up after lengthy consultations with a wide section of interests , was presented to parliament in early June 1990 . |
| 10 | The 1990 budget was presented to parliament on Nov. 17 , 1989 , by then Finance Minister Said Ahmed Said Ali . |
| 11 | The budget for the fiscal year ending on March 31 , 1991 , was presented to parliament on Feb. 20 , 1990 [ see p. 37415 ] . |
| 12 | The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30 . |
| 13 | It was presented to Parliament by a Secretary of State for Environment , Trade and Industry , Health , Education and Science etcetera , in September 1990 . |
| 14 | He was re-elected to Parliament in 1892 , as member for North Bedfordshire , and was appointed under-secretary for India and then , in 1894 , under-secretary in the home department . |
| 15 | He was re-elected to parliament in 1978 , and then survived a long struggle against cancer . |
| 16 | In June 1992 , Dubcek was re-elected to parliament as the country headed towards splitting into its two constituent parts . |
| 17 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 18 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 19 | His son Roger de Bavent came into his property in Kent and in the 14th year of the reign was summoned to parliament to sit as Baron . |
| 20 | A bill effectively legalizing euthanasia was submitted to parliament on Nov. 8 . |
| 21 | In 1866 , William Johnson of Ballykilbegs led a banned march , was sent to prison , and on his release was elected to Parliament by Protestant voters . |
| 22 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 23 | Ursula Oxley read from the memoirs of Henry Hunt who was born Wiltshire , was elected to parliament , and worked for the repeal of the corn laws . |
| 24 | She was elected to Parliament at the general election in April . |
| 25 | He was elected to parliament last December as head of the Independent Citizens ' Party , standing in the Serb-ruled ( but Albanian-populated ) province of Kosovo . |
| 26 | He was elected to Parliament as member for Aylesbury in 1880 . |
| 27 | He was elected to Parliament for Pontefract in 1774 ; he supported Lord North 's government on the American war , and was in favour of granting further relief to Protestant dissenters . |
| 28 | In 1972 , at the age of 23 , he was elected to parliament . |
| 29 | John Major , 47 , after a successful career in banking , and briefly as a local councillor in the London borough of Lambeth , was elected to Parliament for Huntingdon in 1979 . |
| 30 | He was elected to parliament as MP for Orkney and Shetland in 1950 , and led the Liberal Party from 1956 till 1967 . |