Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] [adj] friend [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 2 | Could my honourable friend explain how that came about ? |
| 3 | Would my honourable friend give way , brief , very brief . |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend speak to our right hon. Friend the Chancellor about introducing financial incentives similar to those for unleaded fuel so as to encourage speedier acceptance of a lower-sulphur fuel ? |
| 5 | If the Opposition spokesman , the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) , has the guts and really cares about Ravenscraig , will my hon. Friend ask him to stand up now and commit a future Labour Government to keeping Ravenscraig open ? |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend ask the Opposition whether they will continue to embark upon their policy of abolishing those trusts ? |
| 7 | Will my hon. Friend reflect on the mirror image of those charges , when one looks at the Liberal Democrat and Labour party Front-Bench spokesmen to see how many come from Scottish constituencies and frequently and regularly speak on purely English matters ? |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend repeat the commitment given by the Secretary of State for the Environment when he said that the new councils of Avon , Cleveland and Humberside would be among the first to receive the benefit of that new commission ? |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend try to bring both sides together nationally — as is happening locally in Devon and Cornwall — to try to make some progress on this central issue , as well as pursuing the matter internationally ? |
| 10 | In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ? |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend pass on my congratulations to all who were involved in that improvement ? |
| 12 | During the discussions that will range from the channel tunnel to the north-west of England , will my hon. Friend remember that he will have to cross north-west Kent ? |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend tell us what action is being taken to improve the position in respect of new staff and new facilities and any benefits that might be derived from the new contractual arrangements ? |
| 14 | Bearing in mind that Labour Members have made many promises without costing them , will my hon. Friend tell us whether they have made promises about the environment in which they claim to be interested ? |
| 15 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 16 | If , at the end of this year , the total funds — I reckon those to be £44 million , but that figure may not be quite accurate — are underspent , will my hon. Friend advertise for people who , from 1989 to 1991 , did not receive their full allocation and allow anyone , including my constituents , to apply to help them use up any unused balance ? |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 18 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the sterling work done by the Action Committee for a Hospital in Ely and Cambridge health authority , which persevered in trying to get the hospital for the NHS ? |
| 19 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Mr. Martyn Rands , chairman of Basildon commuters ' club — and to his hard-working committee — who met my hon. Friend this morning and presented him with a petition , signed by 5,000 people in my constituency , complaining about the disgraceful service that they receive on the Fenchurch Street line ? |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend make sure that close co-operation with the politicians in the south , whoever they may be , remains the keystone of the Government 's security policy ? |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend make sure that he or his officials contact the office of Commissioner Millan today and demand that the money be freed so that it can be well spent in areas such as the one that I represent ? |
| 22 | Will my hon. Friend make it clear that , according to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , VAT is progressive in its impact , given that the more people spend , the more tax they pay ? |
| 23 | If they do not give an answer , will my hon. Friend take the Leader of the Opposition out for an Italian meal ? |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend take this opportunity to pay tribute to the workers in the electricity industry who , despite foul weather and difficult circumstances , managed to restore supplies so swiftly ? |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend take time today to congratulate the doctors and staff at Ormskirk district general hospital who are second in the country in respect of their waiting list register , with 94 per cent . |
| 26 | Will my hon. Friend take into account motorway service areas of the kind found in France — which do not have restaurants , hotels or facilities of that kind , but offer lavatories , running water and parking places , so that the motorist can stretch his legs and rest before continuing his journey ? |
| 27 | Will my hon. Friend emphasise that Labour 's only policy on air pollution is to abolish nuclear power and replace it with coal-fired power — the net consequence of which could be only a massive increase in global warming ? |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend press the Treasury to sort out the issue of the cost of meat inspection to ensure that the thousands of jobs presently at risk in the poultry industry will be made secure ? |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend consider , in the light of our efforts on set-aside in agriculture , that the principle of decommissioning is very similar ? |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend consider allowing working women in such circumstances a greater disregard ? |