Converse of object

• become: A specialist in family and public law, she became a bencher in 1997.

• elect: In 1850 he was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple.

Adjective modifier

• back: The back bencher argued the two sets of papers were in fact from the same period.

• front: The Editor of the Spectator's career as a front bencher has been brilliant, brief and brusque.

• own: Some of his own Back Benchers are sympathetic to the withdrawal from Europe strategy.

• honorary: Any person of sufficient distinction may be elected an honorary bencher, despite not being a member of the Inn or even a lawyer.

• Conservative: Scargill was seen to have been right all along and disapproval of the Government's policy came even from Conservative back benchers.

• ordinary: In these days, there are over 150 ordinary benchers, elected for life by the Council.

Noun used with modifier

• front: The Sunday Times has learned of a series of lunches and dinners held at secret locations between shadow front benchers and captains of industry.

• back: Mud Slinger General in Chief of the Tory back benchers earned David Shaw ( Ex Con.

• cross: A search through the internet quickly reveals that Lord Stokes sits as a cross bencher in the House of Lords.

• labor: Labor back benchers are preoccupied with the death throes of Tony Blair and the dynamics of succession, not the dynamics of Scottish secession.