Example sentences of "announced in the house " in BNC.

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1 The order , announced in the House of Commons by the junior defence minister , Mr Michael Neubert , will be greeted with some relief in the Navy .
2 Such rhetoric was backed by a proper concern for the freedom and order of the House , down to such details as a successful motion ( 16 December 1606 ) that the adjournment of a committee on a bill should be announced in the House .
3 However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education .
4 The cost of the system is already £1.8 billion less than the original estimate announced in the House in 1982 .
5 It was announced in the House of Commons on 26th February 1975 that the current restrictions on agricultural rents should cease to operate from 28th May 1975 .
6 Peter Brooke , the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , announced in the House of Commons on July 5 that there was to be a delay in the progress of current devolution talks which he had undertaken since January 1990 with a view to producing new arrangements for exercising political power in the province [ see pp. 37198 ; 37262 ; 37583 ] .
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