Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 2 | Such a statement seems assuring enough , but another by Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts in the House of Commons , could be construed as less so : |
| 3 | She refused to have any pets in the house , but even the hardest of hearts need some discharge of sentiment . |
| 4 | And that saved the boy who had insisted on wearing his treasured trainers in the house . |
| 5 | In between , companies of the community would take it in turn on each hour to celebrate Offices in the house . |
| 6 | Some years earlier , Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ( the writers for comic artist Tony Hancock ) and Goon comedian Spike Milligan had established Associated London Scripts ( A.L.S. ) , an institution described by June Barry as ‘ a hot bed of writers , many of whom had offices in the house which they rented out to use whenever they wanted to get away from home or from the studios . ’ |
| 7 | As a result of the congressional elections meanwhile , the Democrats retained their crushing margin of superiority , returning 292 candidates in the House ( as against 143 Republicans ) and in the Senate finishing up with 62 seats ( compared with 38 for the Republicans ) . |
| 8 | Her only real skill was her ferocity as a guard dog , watching over the sheep in the temporary grazing settlements high in the mountains or alerting the family to strangers within the village and intruders in the house . |
| 9 | For it was the general election of 1931 which so drastically altered the balance of parties in the House of Commons as to give the politics of the 1930s its special character . |
| 10 | Sandys ' ‘ Articles of Religion ’ were well received by the majority in both major political parties in the House of Commons , and in the country at large . |
| 11 | In 1979 , this precedent was greatly extended with the institution of 14 new select committees each charged with the oversight of the work of a about 10 members selected by a selection committee so as to reflect , as far as possible , the strength of the various parties in the House of Commons . |
| 12 | They should not consist of invitations to comment directly on the policies of other parties in the House , for which the Prime Minister has no responsibility . |
| 13 | Clearly , the recent bombing campaign in Northern Ireland does not help our attempts to attract inward investment , but all parties in the House , as part of a Northern Ireland team , work together on ways of trying to get more investment . |
| 14 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 15 | I believe that that is the united view of all the parties in the House . |
| 16 | Does he agree that all parties in the House should support its annual renewal , so that we can send the terrorists the clear message that they can never win ? |
| 17 | On the assumption that most parties in the House wish to remain in NATO , why is it necessary for the United Kingdom to have a capability of this kind , in addition to the United States capability ? |
| 18 | That would help to show the universal determination of all parties in the House to achieve an answer that will provide a proper future for British agriculture and enable me at least to be able to tell my companions in the negotiations that there are things that matter so much to us that we will sit there until we achieve them , even if it means that we will sit there for many more months to come . |
| 19 | In practice , it is rare for the Lords to reject government measures , and there is a gentleman 's agreement among the parties in the House that a bill promised in a government 's election manifesto should be given an unopposed Second Reading ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 20 | Scotland 's position has been fully exposed recently by peers of both parties in the House of Lords where the Government , represented by Earl Howe , confirmed its determination to avoid causing ‘ unnecessary hardship ’ to the few part-time English drift-netters . |
| 21 | The party strengths in the House of Commons after all these by-elections ( excluding the Speaker and the Chairman and two Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means ) were : Conservatives 369 , Labour 228 , Liberal Democrats 21 , OUP 9 , SNP 5 , social democrats 3 [ see below ] , Plaid Cymru 3 , SDLP 3 , DUP 3 , UPUP 1 , and Sinn Féin 1 ( although Adams had not taken up his seat as Sinn Féin MP ) . |
| 22 | It is , indeed , quite a common occurrence for a government to have second thoughts about a Bill during or after its progress through the Commons and to use its supporters in the House of Lords to make the changes in a Bill then seen to be desirable . |
| 23 | Unless , therefore , we decide to resist the proposal , however strong may be its supporters in the House of Commons , there is much to be said for taking the initiative and inserting in the Bill , as introduced , a clause for the abolition of the death penalty . |
| 24 | They are rarely free of criticism , and in 1969 the Labour home secretary advised his supporters in the House to vote against the commission 's recommendations , which they did . |
| 25 | This interpretation was also shared by most of the speakers in a House of Lords debate on 5 May 1943 . |
| 26 | He has a keenly critical mind and is an excellent speaker — one of the best speakers in the House . |
| 27 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 28 | It is very likely that she enjoyed access to books in the house ( see appendix ) . |
| 29 | There were no English children 's books in the house , and the boys did not shop on their own nor have regular pocket money . |
| 30 | ‘ The Complete Sherlock Holmes is one of the books in the house . ’ |