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

Legislative Council in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: legislative
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.2 words

Words in this phrase

legislative council

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • legislative can mean: Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking. Frequent word
  • council can mean: A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council). Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 8 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:

and the legislative council 2× in the legislative council 2× by the legislative council 1× citation the legislative council is a 1× council and legislative council 1× from the legislative council and their 1× however the legislative council continued to 1× of the legislative council 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

the legislative council 3× another two candidates 1× at each election 1× but he joined 1× chandrasekhar rao his 1× executive branch the 1×

Common sentence endings:

the legislative council 7× a statewide electorate 1× and legislative council 1× british commercial interests 1× department receives them 1× every two years 1×

Context words

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

members 14× executive 11× elected 7× power 4× governor 4× six 3× election 3× five 3× sat 3× remained 2× chosen 2× chief 2×

Related phrases

city council parish council legislative session council meeting council spokesperson town council arts council security council council meetings european council

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around legislative:

legislative session 20× legislative assembly 16× legislative leaders 9× legislative agenda 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

legislative branch legislative assembly legislative agenda legendary status legendary pokemon legendary director

Just after it in the phrase index:

legislative leaders legislative session legislature party legislature passed legitimate business leisure centre

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

legislative session legislative assembly legislative leaders legislative agenda legislative branch

Same ending:

city council parish council town council arts council security council european council

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "legislative council" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and the legislative council, in the legislative council, members, executive and elected stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with city council, parish council, legislative session, legislative session, legislative assembly and legislative leaders, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with legislative council

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

Short example sentences

He was aided by the Executive Council and the Legislative Council. (11 words)

Legislative power is vested in both the Governor and the Legislative Council. (12 words)

Another two candidates have put themselves forward for a seat in the Legislative Council. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

In January 2013 it was proposed that the Executive Council would be led by a "Chief Councillor" who would be elected by the members of the Legislative Council and would nominate the other members of the Executive Council. (38 words)

More importantly, all 11 men who had ever sat on the Executive Council also sat on the board of the Bank at one time or another. 10 of these men also sat on the Legislative Council. (36 words)

The Legislative Council was now composed of six ex-officio members, six nominated members, and eighteen elected members, however the Legislative Council continued to have purely advisory powers – all executive power remained with the governor. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Its legislative power was subject to veto by the appointed Lieutenant Governor, Executive Council, and Legislative Council.

Secretaries had remained to be chosen by the Chief Executive not from the Legislative Council, and their appointments need not be approved by the Legislative Council.

The Legislative Council was now composed of six ex-officio members, six nominated members, and eighteen elected members, however the Legislative Council continued to have purely advisory powers – all executive power remained with the governor.

At each election one member is elected to the Legislative Assembly from each of 93 electoral districts and half of the 42 members of the Legislative Council are elected by a statewide electorate.

In July 1947, separate Executive and Legislative Councils were established and the election of six members of the Legislative Council was scheduled for the following year.

Legislative power is vested in both the Governor and the Legislative Council.

The Legislative Assembly consists of 224 members who are elected for five-year terms. citation The Legislative Council is a permanent body of 75 members with one-third (25 members) retiring every two years.

This Provisional Legislative Council, lacking legislative or constitutional power, moved into Hong Kong and completed its term in 1999.

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In January 2013 it was proposed that the Executive Council would be led by a "Chief Councillor" who would be elected by the members of the Legislative Council and would nominate the other members of the Executive Council.

Executive Branch The Executive Council consists of the Governor, three ex officio officers (one, the Attorney General, having no vote), and five elected members of the Legislative Council.

Five Council Committees would be made up from the membership of the Legislative Council and civil servants so that at any time there would always be a majority of elected members.

He was aided by the Executive Council and the Legislative Council.

More importantly, all 11 men who had ever sat on the Executive Council also sat on the board of the Bank at one time or another. 10 of these men also sat on the Legislative Council.

The Legislative Council ( Chinese 立法院 main) was largely a ceremonial body, existing to rubber-stamp decisions issued by the State Council.

The Legislative Council included the members of the Executive Council and unofficial members initially chosen from British commercial interests.

Another two candidates have put themselves forward for a seat in the Legislative Council.

But he joined the Mahagathbandhan in 2018 when the RJD helped his son Santosh Suman get a berth in the legislative council.

Chandrasekhar Rao, his cabinet colleagues, speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, legislative council chairman G. Sukhender Reddy and senior officials attended the swearing-in.

He agreed at lawmakers’ request to provide quarterly reports to the Legislative Council on the use of the grant funds if the department receives them.

In February 2006, Hamas had won the highest number of seats for election to the Palestinian Legislative Council, easily surpassing Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas who heads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

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