Example sentences of "parliament [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 2 | Another sees Riesenhuber in charge of a new ministry of the environment , where he could head off the political challenge of the Green movement which enters the West German parliament for the first time after the election successes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 5 | The right-wing Popular Party ( PP ) improved its position and the Alava Union ( UA ) , a new provincial splinter group of PP , entered the parliament for the first time . |
| 6 | The Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party ( RP-Refah Partisi — led by Necmettin Erbakan ) entered parliament for the first time , with 62 seats , on an agenda which included withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and renunciation of efforts towards EC membership . |
| 7 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 9 | In 1911 , when the second Moroccan crisis had shown how easily Europe might now be engulfed by war , it was discussed by parliament for the first time . |
| 10 | Chairman , if I could just er , erm , some words that are n't included in this pa paper , I understand that the Deregulation Bill is published on the eighteenth erm , and presented to Parliament for the first reading , erm , it 's still far from clear what 's going to be said in it , but erm , it 's still widely expected that in fact , on major contentious issues will in fact be the suggestion that sections of Acts of Parliament will , could be revealed by ministerial order rather than go through the parliamentary process again . |
| 11 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 12 | It will then go to the European Parliament for the second reading . |
| 13 | I suspect that those of us who continue our work as Members of Parliament after the next general election will find our surgeries just as busy with people complaining about the council tax and its anomalies as we have during the past year as a result of the poll tax . |
| 14 | Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ . |
| 15 | He was offered constituencies ; it was taken for granted that he would stand for Parliament in the first post-war elections . |
| 16 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 17 | It becomes popular ; uses and trusts become part of the ordinary machinery by which people deal with their property ; they even lend themselves to abuse , which has to be checked by Acts of Parliament in the fourteenth , fifteenth , and sixteenth centuries . |
| 18 | A number of Acts permitting enclosure were passed by parliament in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and the Combsburgh Enclosure Award ( the granting of fields to be enclosed by people who , up to that time , had common grazing rights ) was , in 1858 , based on an Act of 1836 . |
| 19 | I learned recently from an article on Craven Arms station in the Railway Journal that the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway , authorised by Parliament on the 3rd August 1846 , was not the only scheme to link these towns . |
| 20 | She was a newcomer to Parliament at the last election . |
| 21 | Those leaving the Cabinet , besides Thatcher , were Cecil Parkinson , who indicated that he intended to retire from Parliament at the next general election , and Lord Belstead who was appointed to a non-Cabinet post . |