Example sentences of "seats in [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What colour are the seats in the House of Commons ? |
| 4 | What colour are the seats in the House of Lords ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is the function of elections to identify claimants to seats in the House of Commons . |
| 7 | So we are left once more with the need for some form of realignment of the opposition forces to ensure that the non-Tory majority in votes is better reflected in seats in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | Soon nine seats in the House of Commons were in his gift : his M.P.s were referred to in Parliament as ‘ Sir James 's ninepins ’ . |
| 9 | And the cost of admission for the better seats in the house — £30 and £23 . |
| 10 | And if you are lucky enough to stumble upon a village show you will be warmly welcomed and given the best seats in the house — which might mean a patch of ground under the village banyan tree . |
| 11 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 12 | Centralization of royal authority went further in Wales , which in 1536 was put under English law ( and language ) and given a couple of dozen seats in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | His standing in the public opinion polls plummeted as a result of his pardon of Nixon , and the 1974 congressional elections led to further decimation of Republican party representation — the Democrats gaining 49 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate . |
| 14 | I was really upset about that — especially as I 'd managed to get some of the best seats in the house . |
| 15 | The electoral system itself , which favours first and second parties , increasingly produces a distribution of seats in the House of Commons which is sharply at variance with the actual pattern of votes cast . |
| 16 | But the Republicans also won a majority in the Senate and gained seats in the House . |
| 17 | In the 1983 general election , only 23 women won seats in the House of Commons but out of a total of 635 , so that only 3.5 per cent of MPs were female . |
| 18 | The anomaly highlighted by the West Lothian question is further aggravated by the existing distribution of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | At the time , what was of greater political significance was the redistribution of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 20 | The party which commands a majority of seats in the House of Commons wins a general election . |
| 21 | 7 The party which wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons forms the government and has a mandate to put its programme of policies into legislative effect . |
| 22 | The adversary system , based on a party duopoly of seats in the House of Commons and party monopoly ( or an elective dictatorship ) of the government , has come to be seen as our national style of politics . |
| 23 | The emergence of the Labour Party in 1922 as the second largest political party and the fact of alternating Labour and Conservative Governments in the period since the Second World War heightened Liberal interest in proportional representation — the more so from the 1960s onwards when their increasing vote in the country was not matched by seats in the House of Commons . |
| 24 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 25 | In 1983 , for example , the Conservatives won almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons with less than half the nation 's backing and a modest 30.8 per cent of the total electorate , while the Labour Party won almost a third of the seats with only 27.6 per cent of the votes . |
| 26 | In 1626 he wrote on the need for parliamentary reform , calling for the expulsion of non-resident borough MPs whom he regarded as illegally elected , and also for a major redistribution of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | Most of them will be MPs with seats in the House of Commons , where there is a premium on party loyalty and discipline to ensure that the measures proposed by the Cabinet can be passed into law with the minimum of amendment . |
| 28 | We are not here simply in response to what has been described as the ’ West Lothian question ’ in deference to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) , When we arrive to take up our seats in the House of Commons , we are obviously strongly influenced by the constituency that we represent and the part of the country from which we come . |
| 29 | M-19 , participating in the elections following the conclusion of a peace treaty with the government [ see above ] , was thought to have won at least two seats in the House of Representatives and took control of the councils of the small towns of Yumbo , Almaguey and San Alberto . |
| 30 | ( The Australian Conservation Foundation and the Wilderness Society , the country 's two main environmentalist groups , called on their supporters to vote for the Democrats — the centre party which held the balance of power in the Senate but which possessed no seats in the House of Representatives — but to direct their second preferences to the ALP . ) |