Example sentences of "[prep] [art] tories ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They were asked to bring along prizes for the Tories ' Winter Ball , with the value of gifts reaching £5,000 . |
2 | What accounts for the Tories ' success in winning again against the odds ? |
3 | You 're not on , we will not be made the scapegoats , with public sector workers will not pay for the Tories ' mismanagement of the economy . |
4 | ‘ No ’ campaigners at the 900-pupil comprehensive heralded the outcome as a significant one for the Tories ' flagship education policy . |
5 | Mr Forman , 49 , only joined the Cabinet in April after the Tories ' victory in the General Election , following years in the political wilderness . |
6 | After the Tories ' loss of Newbury in the by-election on May 6th , and the death of Robert Adley , the MP for Christchurch , on May 13th , is that still true ? |
7 | By 1974 , however , he despaired of the Tories ' ability to stick — like his Jocks — to their guns , and lamented the failure to market their new faith in unstuffy enterprise . |
8 | THE NEXT Labour government will abandon the ‘ corrupt priorities ’ of the Tories ' education policies and make Britain the brains of Europe , Jack Straw , the party 's education spokesman said yesterday . |
9 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
10 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
11 | The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories ' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable . |
12 | Disaster in the provinces was then turned into a public-relations triumph by a dramatic swing in the Tories ' favour in their flagship London councils , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
13 | The spectre of reanimated union power was inevitably trotted out again in the Tories ' election campaign . |
14 | Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly . |
15 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |
16 | How much Mr Pringle receives ( tax free ) will doubtless depend on the Tories ' progress through the early hours . |
17 | Letter : Bottled water on the Tories ' platform |
18 | Mr MacMullen , a lecturer in politics at Durham University , believes Labour will bring its biggest guns to bear on the Tories ' record and the Conservatives may no longer be able to rely on traditional Tory vote winners , like defence , management of the economy and crime . |
19 | As the date of the General Election approaches , we look back at the Tories ' record on housing and mortgage rates . |
20 | But we should not be surprised by the Tories ' attack on public services . |