Example sentences of "be [adj] to [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the police are concerned , I and my fellow Ministers are answerable to the House . |
| 2 | I have repeatedly made it clear in the House and beyond that I am working to seek an agreement at Maastricht that will be acceptable to the House and this country . |
| 3 | I have made it clear over recent months , and am happy to repeat today , that we are seeking an agreement at Maastricht that will be acceptable to the House and will enable Europe to move forward together . |
| 4 | They will be shrewd judges of what would be acceptable to the House and the country and what would not . |
| 5 | It would be unfair to the House to spend hours reeling off reams of statistics but , so that the picture of Shrewsbury is fully painted , I must tell the House that in 1983 there were 1,334 long-term unemployed people . |
| 6 | The minister responsible for monetary policy should be answerable to the House of Commons … |
| 7 | Accountability will remain in this place because the Secretary of State will be accountable to the House for the exercise of his duties in the provision of further education . |
| 8 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 9 | Being adjacent to the house it will be much more convenient to use , too . |
| 10 | Mind you I suppose it would have been close to the house . |
| 11 | Both homes are close to the house in Northumberland Street where Magee 's sister lived . |
| 12 | It is clear to the House from that sort of defence that Wolverhampton , even by the standards of Labour councils , is a pretty dreadful education authority , with the fifth highest overheads in England . |
| 13 | It is the case that we have set out our position perfectly clearly so that our European partners know what is acceptable to the House and what is not . |
| 14 | It is open to the House to ask for reports , and it can pose questions at any time . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a move which was discourteous to the House and an abuse of the procedures of the House . ’ |
| 16 | He was indifferent to the house , indeed almost disliked the grander parts of it , preferring the fire in the hall where he could drink his dram in company with his dogs as if he were by the croft hearth of his childhood . |
| 17 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |