Example sentences of "[pron] give the house " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ I give the House a full assurance that , in the event of the introduction of executive detention , it would be carried out by Her Majesty 's Government in line with legislation passed by this House . ’
2 I give the House that assurance .
3 For the non-commercial parts of the operation , the Government 's present procedure for funding such investments , for example by Network SouthEast or London Underground , is to take into account , where appropriate , the wider non-user benefits — I gave the House examples of such non-user benefits — and to finance London Underground by grant and British Rail by passenger service obligation grant , which is a revenue grant , and then by loan sanction permission to borrow .
4 Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ?
5 Would she accept this figure which is lower than any national curriculum subject is bound to affect the quality of R E teaching and er can she give the House an assurance that this matter will be addressed urgently .
6 Although it is the hereditary peers who give the House of Lords its raison d'être , it is the life peers who give the place its intellectual distinction and who produce the most impressive arguments in examining the details of legislation .
7 The hon. Member for Bournemouth , West ( Mr. Atkinson ) must have stumbled into the debate without having been nobbled by his Whips , because he gave a reasonable , rational and consensus-seeking speech , unlike the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) , who gave the House his next election address for 37 minutes , but then proceeded to disappear , as though he is the only hon. Member with a constituency outside central London .
8 Er th but do n't forget that , that if they make the transfer , if they give the house to you , is that what you mean , yes ?
9 What assurance can he give the House that that will amount to more than crumbs from the European Commission 's table ?
10 Will he give the House some positive information about the success of the reforms that the Government are making , which will save the NHS for the year 2000 ?
11 Will he give the House more information on the Priority Japan campaign which is being run with British industry ?
12 Can he give the House more details about the important review of wave energy and will he also tell us which other projects it will cover ?
13 Will he give the House a pledge that such a crazy proposal will never be included in a manifesto issued by the Conservative party ?
14 Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ?
15 Will he give the House an undertaking that , when the report calls for action from the Government , we can rely on my right hon. Friend to take action without delay ?
16 Will he give the House an assurance that , when we discuss the post-Maastricht position , the debate will be unlimited ?
17 When the Prime Minister said on Tuesday that if the Conservatives were re-elected they would not increase VAT , was he giving the House and the country a categorical assurance ?
18 Our confidence in the Home Secretary and in his ability to handle the crisis in our prisons might be slightly restored if , even at this late stage , he gave the House and the country the full facts about the Brixton breakout .
19 It gave the house of Foix some claim to the succession in Bigorre and , when Esquivat died without heirs in 1283 , a conflict broke out which was not to be resolved until 1307 .
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