Example sentences of "house [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal reason why the methods of scrutiny in the House of Commons and the House of Lords differ so widely is that the House of Commons has traditionally seen its power as residing in the Chamber itself and in the power to call ministers to account on the floor of the House . |
| 2 | But the House of Lords has since made it clear that the scope of judicial review does not depend on any distinction between judicial and administrative functions but on whether the challenged decision affects the applicant 's rights or legitimate expectations and on arguments about the suitability and propriety of judicial review in the circumstances of the case . |
| 3 | An act is ‘ in furtherance ’ of a trade dispute when the doer genuinely believes it will assist the cause in support of which it is done : the House of Lords has emphatically rejected the addition of any requirement that the act be ‘ not too remote ’ or ‘ reasonably likely to succeed . ’ |
| 4 | To apply these characteristics as the criterion for dismissal or refusal to employ is to apply a gender-based criterion , which the majority of the House of Lords has already held to be unlawful direct discrimination in James v Eastleigh Borough Council [ 1990 ] 2 AC 751 . |
| 5 | The House of Lords has solemnly decided that " ordinary readers " do not read very carefully — at least when they are skimming through " The Sun " . |
| 6 | In recent years , moreover , the incidence of backbench revolts among government supporters has increased and the House of Lords has more than once demonstrated an inclination to go its own way . |
| 7 | In recent years the House of Lords has more readily applied the Practice Statement of 1966 . |
| 8 | The House of Lords has recently ruled that an action of false imprisonment can not be brought by prisoners challenging the conditions of their custody . |
| 9 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 10 | In the present case , he submitted , the House of Lords has now conclusively ruled that there is not and never was a contract , and it is thus apparent on the plain words of article 5(1) itself that these restitutionary claims can not possibly be properly classified as matters relating to a contract . |
| 11 | I am encouraged to see that in the more recent case of Ensign Tankers v. Stokes the House of Lords has now rejected the notion that the mere fact that a transaction is undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a fiscal advantage compels the court to ignore and nullify all the fiscal consequences which are beneficial to the taxpayer . |
| 12 | Since the Prime Minister acknowledges convergence to be a matter of considerable importance in the development of the European Community , why is it , now that the Engineering Employers Federation , the Confederation of British Industry and his noble Friends in the House of Lords have all made cause for new investment incentives for British industry , that he and the remainder of the Government refuse to take such initiatives in order to support this very best way of securing recovery ? |
| 13 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 14 | To state that trial judges are bound by decisions of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords seems remarkably straightforward , but the multiple judgments of the Court of Appeal and of the House of Lords immediately make the issue more complex . |
| 15 | It is extremely rare for the House of Lords to reject outright a Bill passed by the Commons , slightly less rare for the Commons to reject outright a Bill passed by the Lords — odd or controversial Bills are occasionally passed by the House of Lords , sometimes , one suspects , in the confident expectation that they will be rejected by the Commons . |
| 16 | With their bill the House of Commons had just burdened the people of Britain with a near million of debt contracted by the Prince of Wales . |
| 17 | Until 1974 the British House of Commons had virtually given up all but the slightest influence in the disposition of executive proposals . |
| 18 | Capital and corporal punishment , to which majorities in the House of Commons had consistently been opposed , long remained at or near to the top of the short but touchy list of policy issues separating Conservative Ministers from their party followers . |
| 19 | The shadow foreign secretary , Dr Jack Cunningham , said : ‘ If the House of Commons has no say over the Maastricht Treaty then the bill itself is a complete charade and a waste of time . |
| 20 | The principal reason why the methods of scrutiny in the House of Commons and the House of Lords differ so widely is that the House of Commons has traditionally seen its power as residing in the Chamber itself and in the power to call ministers to account on the floor of the House . |
| 21 | Although the House of Commons has always contained some MPs who take an informed interest in the subject , they are in a small minority , irrespective of Party allegiance , being heavily outnumbered by those who are guided more by what they sense to be the prevailing expectations of the public . |
| 22 | It was the largest Conservative Party which the House of Commons has ever seen . |
| 23 | In 1831 Gordon was returned as MP for Dundalk and in the House of Commons clashed frequently with Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] over the Irish education question and the government grant to Maynooth College . |
| 24 | In recent years — since the televising of the House , I suppose — people have asked me , as they have asked other hon. Members , why the House of Commons behaves so badly , like a bunch of yobs . |
| 25 | Mentioned with particular regard among our own Somerville fellows were the Principal ( who would often conduct her class in Radcliffe House with Joshua purring contentedly on her knee ) , Miss Farnell , Mrs Hodgkin , Miss Lascelles , Mrs Foot , Mrs Snow , Mrs Henderson , Miss Hartley and Dr Starkie ( ‘ I never cease to think of tutorials with Enid Starkie in her garish red-gilt rooms in 41 St. Giles ’ , writes Margaret Brown ) . |
| 26 | He nodded briefly , then turned to enter the house with Belinda following closely in the wake of his capable stride and feeling very thankful that he had arrived . |
| 27 | The manor house in Hampshire had long since passed from the family , the fortune was diminished ; but Sir Hugo 's long and melancholy face framed by a collar of exquisite lace still stared with arrogant condescension at the passing crowd , the definitive seventeenth-century Royalist gentleman . |
| 28 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |