Example sentences of "[prep] seats in [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electoral system itself , which favours first and second parties , increasingly produces a distribution of seats in the House of Commons which is sharply at variance with the actual pattern of votes cast . |
| 2 | The anomaly highlighted by the West Lothian question is further aggravated by the existing distribution of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 3 | At the time , what was of greater political significance was the redistribution of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | The party which commands a majority of seats in the House of Commons wins a general election . |
| 5 | 7 The party which wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons forms the government and has a mandate to put its programme of policies into legislative effect . |
| 6 | The adversary system , based on a party duopoly of seats in the House of Commons and party monopoly ( or an elective dictatorship ) of the government , has come to be seen as our national style of politics . |
| 7 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 8 | In 1626 he wrote on the need for parliamentary reform , calling for the expulsion of non-resident borough MPs whom he regarded as illegally elected , and also for a major redistribution of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | Should a party polling the majority of votes fail to gain a majority of seats in the House , extra seats are allocated until a majority of one seat is achieved . |
| 10 | Should a party polling a majority of votes fail to gain a majority of seats in the House , extra seats are allocated until a majority of one seat is achieved . |
| 11 | Over 75 organizations were represented at the meeting in Durban , including the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the Labour Party , which held the majority of seats in the House of Representatives ( the chamber for Coloured people in the tricameral parliament — see p. 36880 for 1989 election ) . |
| 12 | By convention , the monarch summons the leader of the party with a majority of seats in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | There is no separate election of the executive : the leader of the party with a majority of seats in the House of Commons is invited to form a government . |
| 14 | Most of them will be MPs with seats in the House of Commons , where there is a premium on party loyalty and discipline to ensure that the measures proposed by the Cabinet can be passed into law with the minimum of amendment . |
| 15 | So we are left once more with the need for some form of realignment of the opposition forces to ensure that the non-Tory majority in votes is better reflected in seats in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | It is the function of elections to identify claimants to seats in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | The emergence of the Labour Party in 1922 as the second largest political party and the fact of alternating Labour and Conservative Governments in the period since the Second World War heightened Liberal interest in proportional representation — the more so from the 1960s onwards when their increasing vote in the country was not matched by seats in the House of Commons . |