Example sentences of "gentleman has [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The hon. Gentleman has completely failed to understand that he has not yet asked himself the question , ’ What is a region ? ’
2 The hon. Gentleman has clearly forgotten that , for example , Lady Callaghan was an excellent chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital and a number of other wives of eminent people in public life have held that position .
3 The hon. Gentleman has clearly studied this issue and will know that three quarters of all patients in Scotland are dealt with within four weeks and that half are dealt with immediately .
4 The hon. Gentleman has clearly not observed that in the last year inflation has fallen to 4 per cent .
5 Mr. Shaker : The Hon. Gentleman has already spoken once .
6 The hon. Gentleman has just been reminded of the shabby teachers ' pay record of the Labour Government whom he supported some years ago — It was his Government then , although their successors may not be represented on the Front Bench in quite the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish .
7 It is always interesting to note that the moment one reminds Labour Members of their party 's commitment to high taxation , they lose control of the argument completely and deliver tirades along the lines of that to which the hon. Gentleman has just subjected the House .
8 In the light of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said , perhaps he will tell us two things : how much extra would he provide for health , and where does health come in Labour 's order of priorities ?
9 The success of British exporters , which apparently does not get one word of congratulation or praise from the Labour party , gives the lie to what the hon. Gentleman has just said .
10 I shall table a parliamentary question about that and I look forward to confirmation of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said .
11 I understand and have previously heard the views that the hon. Gentleman has just expressed .
12 As the Minister for Social Security and Disabled People , I understand , of course , that some people have the feelings that the hon. Gentleman has just outlined .
13 Over the past five years , however , the Government have taken account of the very point that the hon. Gentleman has just made .
14 The right hon. Gentleman has just mentioned balanced economic and social development , and his amendment refers to ’ social cohesion ’ .
15 They do not share the views that the hon. Gentleman has just expressed .
16 I am sorry that that old favourite , the very nauseating tie usually worn by the hon. Member for Great Grimsby ( Mr. Mitchell ) , is not with us , although the hon. Gentleman has just arrived .
17 As far as I can make out , the hon. and learned Gentleman has just created a precedent by telling the House that , in the two wars in which we have been involved , it was — to use his word — ’ inconceivable ’ that the Government would have used nuclear weapons .
18 If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments .
19 Of course , I regret those job losses , but the hon. Gentleman has surely seen the article in The Independent on Sunday a week last Sunday which spelt out clearly the devastating consequences on jobs in the retail trade of his proposal for a national statutory minimum wage .
20 Characteristically , the right hon. Gentleman has totally misquoted what I said .
21 The hon. Gentleman has obviously followed the Government 's proposals , which are designed carefully to consult local people and to find out whether we can create local authorities that reflect a genuine sense of local community .
22 The hon. Gentleman has obviously recognised that the Prime Minister secured for us a major competitive advantage at Maastricht .
23 Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ?
24 However , the hon. Gentleman has never shown any reluctance to enter my car .
25 The view mentioned by the hon. Gentleman has never been put to me and I did not see the article to which he referred .
26 Therefore , I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman has as good a point as he thought .
27 The hon. Gentleman has correctly established that there is a considerable turnover every year in any case .
28 The hon. Gentleman has considerably broadened the original question .
29 As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant .
30 I welcome both the inquiries that the right hon. Gentleman has so speedily set up , but may I advise him that , if we do not get it right this time , we shall be at the Dispatch Box again to consider still more cases ?
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