Example sentences of "[verb] by the right [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he not think that , with a general election coming , if he is confident in his position , the least that he could do would be to put that forward in a general election so that at least people will have an opportunity to give a view before they are committed by the right hon. Gentleman 's signature of a treaty of this magnitude ? |
| 2 | He said that there was no full-hearted consent originally and that the 1972 White Paper presented by the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) explained that essential sovereignty would not be eroded . |
| 3 | I agree with the point made by the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in today 's edition of The Guardian . |
| 4 | That is why I deplore the various policy statements made by the right hon. Member for Gorton in the past opposing the deployment of Trident . |
| 5 | That is as absurd a political point as was made by the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton , ( Mr. Kaufman ) . |
| 6 | The statement made by the right hon. Gentleman on 2 July included the following two sentences : ’ At present advice and assistance but not representation are available to those whose means qualify them under the legal aid green form scheme . |
| 7 | Reading the submission of the Ulster Unionist party brought me back to a comment made by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley ( Mr. Molyneaux ) , the leader of the Ulster Unionist party , during the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Committee on 13 June . |
| 8 | If that policy were applied throughout Britain , as was also said by the right hon. Gentleman , it would cost £1.2 billion — an additional cost to the taxpayer which could only mean less investment in roads . |
| 9 | — to being lectured by the right hon. Gentleman , who is the man who perfected the poll tax . |
| 10 | I still wonder what happened to the paper produced by the right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) , which the former Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley , threw into her waste paper basket with what oaths and cries we shall never know . |
| 11 | Let me respond to the specific ECGD point raised by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 12 | Our shared experience in that campaign was in marked contrast to the role played by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) who , throughout that campaign , spoke vociferously and vigorously against Britain 's membership of the European Community . |
| 13 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 14 | The second three-year letter of intent was provided by the right Hon. Member for Croydon , Central ( Mr. Moore ) who is now the Secretary for Social Security . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend contrast the judicious , prudent and honourable way in which he and his right hon. Friends are negotiating in the European talks with the cynical sell-out proposed by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) ? |
| 16 | Being assaulted by the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) on such issues is rather like being attacked by a bread and butter pudding . |
| 17 | They know that the Labour party , led by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , would lie down and be run over by anything that the Community proposed . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , in sharp contrast to the open-door policy apparently espoused by the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and his party , the measures contained in the Asylum Bill will be fair and of great benefit to genuine asylum seekers ? |
| 19 | Above all , the Government have failed to point out that the doctrine of sovereignty , so frequently espoused by the right hon. Member for Finchley , is totally out of date . |
| 20 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend accept how much I regret , ’ Mr Tebbit had begun his snarl at the Foreign Secretary , ‘ having to say how much I disagree with nearly everything he said and agree with nearly everything said by the Right Honourable Gentleman for the Opposition . ’ |
| 22 | Her Royal Highness was received by The Right Honourable The Lord Provost of Glasgow ( Mrs Susan Baird ) . |
| 23 | That was always the portrait that was painted by the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) and I am afraid that that is occasionally true of the present Prime Minister also . |
| 24 | Such advice is becoming as offensive , ignorant and out of touch as it was when first uttered by the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) many years ago . |
| 25 | The kindest way is to say that , had we followed the advice so loudly and frequently given by the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his colleagues seven or eight years ago , it is highly probable that the hammer and sickle would still be flying over the Kremlin and , more importantly , that the Soviet armies would be massed in Europe . |
| 26 | I pay tribute to the quality of the testimony given by the right hon. Gentleman — the only Back-Bencher who has held my office — about the way in which democracy is defended against the forces of darkness in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | I am not sure whether we shall get the support , but the plan includes the elements mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman , and encouragement for the concept of a United Nations peacekeeping force once the appropriate conditions exist . |
| 28 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 29 | Despite being described by the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , then Prime Minister , as both ’ unassailable ’ and ’ brilliant , brilliant , brilliant ’ , he is given a much lower rating by contemporary Conservative opinion . |