Below you will find example sentences with "hereditary peers". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Hereditary Peers in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: peers
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.8 words

Words in this phrase

hereditary peers

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • hereditary can mean: Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate. Less frequent word
  • peers can mean: plural of peer Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

right of hereditary peers to sit 2× all hereditary peers except 92 1× and some hereditary peers is the 1× before the hereditary peers 1× fathers were hereditary peers and so 1× group of hereditary peers in place 1× handful of hereditary peers 1× hereditary peers main an 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a new bill 1× after the house 1× all hereditary peers 1× as a part 1× as part of 1× certain personal privileges 1×

Common sentence endings:

90 hereditary peers 1× all hereditary peers 1× as hereditary peers 1× be in remainder 1× below in 1999 1× continue to sit 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

house 16× lords 11× sit 5× life 5× government 5× 1999 4× act 3× group 3× bill 3× part 3× chosen 2× rights 2×

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Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "hereditary peers" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as right of hereditary peers to sit, all hereditary peers except 92, house, lords and sit stand out.

Example types with hereditary peers

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Formerly, they were all hereditary peers. (6 words)

A new bill will remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords. (14 words)

Mr. Blair ended up accepting a compromise that left a rump group of hereditary peers in place. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the Upper House, although it made an exception for 92 of them to be elected to life-terms by the other hereditary peers, with by-elections upon their death. (45 words)

After the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington (along with all former Leaders of the House who were hereditaries) was given a life peerage to enable him to continue to sit. (45 words)

He also famously allied with the Tory right-winger Enoch Powell to scupper the government's plan to abolish the voting rights of hereditary peers and create a House of Lords comprising only life peers – a "seraglio of eunuchs" as Foot put it. (43 words)

Example sentences (20)

All hereditary peers except 92 chosen in a secret ballot of all hereditary peers have now lost their rights to sit in the second chamber.

The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the Upper House, although it made an exception for 92 of them to be elected to life-terms by the other hereditary peers, with by-elections upon their death.

Certain personal privileges are afforded to all peers and peeresses, but the main distinction of a peerage nowadays, apart from access to the House of Lords for life peers and some hereditary peers, is the title and style thereby accorded.

Hereditary peers main An hereditary peer is a peer of the realm whose dignity may be inherited; those able to inherit it are said to be "in remainder".

He also famously allied with the Tory right-winger Enoch Powell to scupper the government's plan to abolish the voting rights of hereditary peers and create a House of Lords comprising only life peers – a "seraglio of eunuchs" as Foot put it.

The number of peers to be chosen by a political group reflects the proportion of hereditary peers that belonged to that group (see current composition below) in 1999.

The title exists only for the duration of their own lifetime and is not passed to their heirs (although the children even of life peers enjoy the same courtesy titles as hereditary peers).

Much aristocratic umbrage has been taken at the Palace's refusal to invite more than a handful of hereditary peers.

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A new bill will remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords.

As part of the King's Speech, which set out the new Government's legislative agenda, promised fresh laws to scrap the remaining 90 hereditary peers.

He insists the government has “got its priorities the wrong way round” and the bishops should have been abolished before the hereditary peers.

It comes as the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill moves a step closer to becoming law with its Second Reading in the Commons taking place on Tuesday.

Mr. Blair ended up accepting a compromise that left a rump group of hereditary peers in place.

Speaking during the second reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, Sir Oliver Dowden said hereditaries would be replaced by “the nepo babies of north London”.

After the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington (along with all former Leaders of the House who were hereditaries) was given a life peerage to enable him to continue to sit.

As a part of a compromise, however, it agreed to permit 92 hereditary peers to remain until the reforms were complete.

Formerly, they were all hereditary peers.

In 1968, the Labour Government of Harold Wilson attempted to reform the House of Lords by introducing a system under which hereditary peers would be allowed to remain in the House and take part in debate, but would be unable to vote.

In 1999, the Labour government brought forward the House of Lords Act removing the right of several hundred hereditary peers to sit in the House.

Judges at the House of Lords secured their position by mere virtue of the fact that their fathers were hereditary peers and so individuals would automatically inherit seats in the upper house rather than securing their position through merit.

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