Example sentences of "mps on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plant , which would have cost between £1,100 million and £1,700 million , had already been backed by the cabinet , but was rejected by MPs on environmental grounds , despite the boost it would have given to recession-hit Finnish industry . |
| 2 | MPs on all sides of the political spectrum are claiming that not to provide these relatively modest sums is reprehensible neglect . |
| 3 | Where party discipline is concerned , it is clear that voting cohesion has decreased over the last decade as MPs on both sides feel able to vote more freely . |
| 4 | Several other MPs on both sides of the House of Commons may soon be urging legal reform . |
| 5 | MPs on both sides of the Commons believe Mr Major will have to resign from Number 10 if he can not go to the Edinburgh Summit in December as EC President with an upbeat message to fellow heads of state . |
| 6 | An undisclosed number of MPs on both sides of the House of Commons pay the £35 membership subscription for the information and publications provided by the Group , but they are not required to pledge support for its aims . |
| 7 | MPs on both sides of the House responded angrily to the announcement . |
| 8 | Mr Nelson responded to interventions by MPs on both sides who claimed that if the Bank of England had acted sooner fewer depositors would have lost cash . |
| 9 | Looking at political balance ( perhaps the most sensitive matter ) , the Conservatives were given , on all programmes , more actuality coverage than Labour and other parties combined ( 1,788 actuality excerpts of Conservative MPs on 971 occasions , as opposed to 1,241 excerpts on 851 occasions for MPs of all other parties , in the period analysed by Blumler ) , but this is not surprising as the Conservatives are the majority in the House . |