Example sentences of "been [verb] in the commons " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King was particularly anxious to dispel the view expressed by Campbell Stephen and Lansbury that he was hostile to Labour ; and he told J. C. C. Davidson , a confidant of Baldwin , on 21 January after the Conservatives had been defeated in the Commons , that ‘ it was essential that their rights under the Constitution should in no way be impaired ’ . |
| 2 | The question had been raised in the Commons during the debates on the Bill , when Churchill indicated that the Board of Trade hoped for co-operation between labour exchanges and local education authorities ( LEAs ) in the sharing of information , and that in certain instances Juvenile Advisory Committees ( JACs ) could be established . |
| 3 | A similar amendment had been introduced in the Commons and quickly voted down by the government . |
| 4 | A Private Members Bill , Transactions with Tax Havens , which has all-party support , has been introduced in the Commons by Conservative backbencher David Shaw . |
| 5 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |