Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1931 result , of course , left a great deal of room for recoil , but even so , the average of these results , if reflected in a general election , would have produced a substantial Labour majority in the House of Commons . |
| 2 | A Labour majority in the House of Commons should rally round the executive and protect it against the array of hostile capitalist forces , the Conservative Opposition being merely the front-line troops for the captains of industry , the financiers and the press barons . |
| 3 | The power of Parliament will be limited where a government has a working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | This was to find some authoritative expression during the war years themselves and more especially in the years after 1945 , when a general election resulted in the return of the first Labour government with a clear working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 5 | Dicey thus identifies the growth in power of the party machine as the source of the problem : ‘ Coalitions , log-rolling , and parliamentary intrigue are in England diminishing the moral and political faith in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 6 | Walcott suggested there was a three-fold division in the House of Commons at this time : the government interest , which comprised placemen , pensioners and those who in other ways were dependent upon the Court for their position ; a large body of independent back-bench MPs ; and a middle group of professional politicians , which could be divided into seven " connections " , each tied together by family and personal relationships and electoral interests , and which were caught in a struggle for power between the " ins " and " outs " . |
| 7 | And the parties could fulfil their promises only if they presented a uniform program to the electorate and achieved a cohesive majority in the House of Commons to carry through that program . |
| 8 | It seeks to accelerate decision making , and it will find strong support in the House and in the country . |
| 9 | ‘ The film was exciting — among the under 8s there was n't a dry seat in the house . ’ |
| 10 | The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work . |
| 11 | It means a government commanding a clear majority in the House of Commons . |
| 12 | Derby 's Government had no clear majority in the House of Commons , and as at any time , Palmerston could return to power , the significance of his remarks were not lost on Scott . |
| 13 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 14 | I have popular support in the House , and the party can not manipulate me . |
| 15 | I 'll bet there wo n't be an empty seat in the house . ’ |
| 16 | As part of our programme to outlaw cruelty to wild mammals , we will allow a free vote in the House of Commons on a proposal to ban the hunting of live quarry with hounds and , if that is passed , provide parliamentary time for the necessary legislation . |
| 17 | We will introduce a new law dealing with discrimination on grounds of sexuality , repeal the unjust Clause 28 and allow a free vote in the House of Commons on the age of consent . |
| 18 | The question of capital punishment had always been a matter for individual conscience on a free vote in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | though the Conservative government were able , in 1981 , to amend the GDO to increase the scope of permitted development from 10 to 15 per cent , the Labour government ‘ were forced to withdraw similar proposals in 1977 following a spirited battle in the House of Lords ’ . |
| 20 | The man had a woman and a four year old child in the house with him . |
| 21 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 22 | Each plot is like a different room in a house , with its own plants and blends of colour . |
| 23 | The writing room is her favourite place in the house . |
| 24 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 25 | The announcement was first made by my right hon. Friend in the House of Lords during consideration of the emergency provisions Bill — as it then was — I am speaking from memory , but I believe that it was last May . |
| 26 | The coal board never misses an opportunity to study carefully the comments made by the hon. Gentleman in the House , and I am sure that today will be no exception . |
| 27 | Clara , the girl Herbert was in love with , lived with her old father in a house on the river , quite near the open sea , and Herbert had arranged to rent rooms for Magwitch in this house . |
| 28 | Why there were no photographs of my so-called father in the house . |
| 29 | On his ninth birthday , even though he was very young , he could tell there was a funny silence in the house . |
| 30 | Second , we should recognise that a two-party dominance in the House of Commons may not reflect the pattern of electoral support in the country at large since our first-past-the-post electoral system makes it difficult for third parties to break through into parliament in proportion to their support in the country . |