Example sentences of "[num] member [prep] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 2 | However , the poll showed 66pc of the 203 members of the House of Laity taking part were in favour , with 34pc against . |
| 3 | The New Party had been funded in January 1931 by a gift of 50,000 from the motor manufacturer William Morris , later Lord Nuffield , and encouraged by defections from the Labour party , including six members of the House of Commons . |
| 4 | The UNC had the support of six members of the House of Representatives compared with three for the official opposition PNM . |
| 5 | Kabbia was among 10 members of the House of Representatives who were later suspended from the APC by the party 's governing council " pending further investigations into their conduct " . |
| 6 | F. W. de Klerk was sworn in on Sept. 20 , 1989 , as the new executive President , chosen on Sept. 14 ( following elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament ) by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives , and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 7 | The President is chosen by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 8 | F. W. de Klerk was sworn in on Sept. 20 , 1989 , as the new executive President , chosen on Sept. 14 ( following elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament ) by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives , and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 9 | The President is chosen by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 10 | ** In the US , legislation proposed by 25 members of the House of Representatives called on President Bill Clinton to initiate " high-level discussions " with the British government with a view to halting the THORP project . |
| 11 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 12 | Well in the sense that I suppose whether it matters whether there are six hundred and fifty one members of the house rather six hundred and forty or six hundred and fifty five , no it does n't . |
| 13 | On Nov. 4 voters also chose 14 senators from among 46 candidates and 16 members of the House of Representatives from among 37 candidates . |
| 14 | Only one member of the House was in any way sympathetic to Ian Paisley . |
| 15 | One member of the House of Lords put it succinctly in 1884 : ‘ Very few of their Lordships … had not , when young men , been guilty of immorality . |
| 16 | The whole affair came to an abrupt conclusion in August , when two members of the House Committee reported that on their way out of a board meeting , they came across a group of about fifteen women who were waiting outside the laundry for their pay , which had been due the previous day . |
| 17 | The Senate , reduced from 114 to 100 seats , was to be elected nationally rather than by departments ; each of the 32 departments would elect a minimum of two members of the House of Representatives , reduced from 199 to 160 seats , with further seats allotted to each department on the basis of population . |
| 18 | Two members of the House of Representatives , Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both independent Islamists , were arrested in late August and subsequently charged , along with two other people , with plotting to overthrow the government and having links with foreign powers . |
| 19 | In addition to the posts of President and Vice-President , the May elections were also scheduled to choose 24 senators , 200 members of the House of Representatives , and thousands of local politicians including mayors and provincial governors . |
| 20 | The package of proposals was published on Feb. 29 , in the form of a report by an all-party parliamentary committee of 10 senators and 20 members of the House of Commons , and was designed to provide an agenda for forthcoming negotiations between the federal government and the provinces . |
| 21 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 22 | The case was first argued in December 1895 before seven members of the House of Lords including Lord Chancellor Halsbury , and a former Lord Chancellor , Herschell . |