Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely . |
| 2 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 3 | Otherwise , it means any Bill imposing a charge on public funds and the House of Lords may have a substantial interest in its overall contents . |
| 4 | I thought that the hon. Gentleman , for the benefit of the hon. Lady and the House , was going to explain LMS . |
| 5 | 10 In determining for the purposes of this Act whether a house is unfit for human habitation , regard shall be had to its condition in respect of the following matters — repair , stability , freedom from damp , internal arrangement , natural lighting , ventilation , water supply , drainage and sanitary conveniences , facilities for preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water ; and the house shall be regarded as unfit for human habitation if , and only if , it is so far defective in one or more of those matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition . |
| 6 | By contrast , most privately rented accommodation is not available for short periods ( say for a few weeks while a house purchase is carried out ) . |
| 7 | It read , simply : ‘ Motorway route confirmed ; no public announcement until the House reassembles in the middle of the month . ’ |
| 8 | I believe that we are right to wait until the independent report has been received , but I assure my right hon. Friend and the House that all EC partners who have worked well together on this are carefully considering future relations in the light of what appears to have happened , as shown on the video which so many of us have seen and which the families of the people involved have had to witness in their suffering . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend and the House will be aware that our contribution and support for the secretary-general is not merely a matter of words . |
| 10 | One can not be certain , in such circumstances , that a court of law would meekly accept a general return to a writ in the face of clear knowledge that the House was , in effect , seeking to usurp the role of Parliament itself . |
| 11 | After several days of argument in this court and consideration of conflicting authorities , with no decision of this court or the House of Lords on the point , I , for my part , can not dismiss it so easily . |
| 12 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 13 | But I am delighted to tell the hon. Gentleman and the House that 112 people have been charged with murder or attempted murder in the course of this year . |
| 14 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman and the House know that early-day motions are expressions of opinion . |
| 16 | Suppose you had the right to inherit this island and the house . |
| 17 | It is probably in this area that the House of Commons has had most effect in persuading governments to modify their original proposals . |
| 18 | Dumfries , 26 miles away , has several interesting museums and the house of Robert Burns . |
| 19 | It was in respect of this word that the House of Lords in Brutus v. Cozens developed its doctrine that ‘ ordinary words ’ are the province of the tribunal of fact . |
| 20 | The House of Commons was advised by the Foster Committee and the House of Lords by the Maybray-King Committee . |
| 21 | Six months after the house was finished and the specially commissioned green leather furniture from Hull of Wardour Street had been arranged , Mrs Pugin 's health proved unsuited to watery Wiltshire . |
| 22 | That is why it is essential , as a preliminary to any future action that the House has to consider , that there is a proper convergence of the economies . |
| 23 | for about five or six years till the house goes up and then . |
| 24 | Matthew wondered if he was equally conscious that his land needed as much attention as the house . |
| 25 | By this time I was a nervous wreck and The house in Govan was a shambles . |
| 26 | Part of this reconstruction had important implications for the rest of Europe , each street being given an official name and every house a civic number . |
| 27 | He saw this corruption as affecting ministers , the civil service and the House of Commons . |
| 28 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive ( which is headed by a President elected for four years , at present a Republican ) , the legislative branch ( Congress , which comprises a Senate of 100 members and a House of Representatives of 435 members , both of which are at present controlled by the Democratic Party ) and the judicial branch ( headed by the Supreme Court ) . |
| 29 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 30 | I predict with complete confidence that the House of Lords will never be abolished for two reasons . |