Example sentences of "[prep] parliament [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He was offered constituencies ; it was taken for granted that he would stand for Parliament in the first post-war elections .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 She was a newcomer to Parliament at the last election .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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