Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used an interview with Brian Walden on ITV to outline his terms for a coalition with either Labour or the Conservatives . |
| 2 | On those figures , neither the Liberal Democrats or any other single party would be able to sustain Labour or the Conservatives in office . |
| 3 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 4 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 5 | The Gallup survey makes it clear that the Conservatives won the campaign . |
| 6 | Neither the Labour nor the Liberal Party had won , but it was clear that the Conservatives had lost- and in an election called by them on an issue of their own choice . |
| 7 | That is the reality of what er Mike said and I 'm sorry he pinched my line politics is the art of the possible and that is a message I 'm afraid that the Conservatives on this council have never adopted . |
| 8 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 9 | Now I think it 's only fair and right that the conservatives are doing as er , should be doing the same . |
| 10 | Liberal Democrat Peter Allen has accused his fellow candidates of mud-slinging and claims neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a vision of the future . |
| 11 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 12 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 13 | In eighty three , when it was obvious that the Conservatives were gon na win because then if you , if , this is history now , but the Labour Party was led by Michael Foot then , it was it was in no shape to win the election in erm the Conservatives were , were led by Thatcher , she was on a high after the Falklands War , the Conservatives romped home . |
| 14 | Even Judith Chaplin , the Conservative candidate for Newbury in Thursday 's General Election , accepted an invitation to attend , and commented : ‘ It sounds like a pretty good double to me — Party Politics wins the National and the Conservatives win the election . ’ |
| 15 | A number of people had detected there was something amiss but these people — and I was one — believed that they erred by favouring not Labour but the Conservatives . |
| 16 | No major change in the strength of all the main constitutional parties is expected once counting ends tonight and all but the Conservatives say they are pleased with their result . |
| 17 | with the GDR proved more than the conservatives ' right wing could stomach . |
| 18 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 19 | After 1942 programmes for economic and social reform after the war began to take shape ; they had popular appeal and Labour was identified with them rather more than the Conservatives . |
| 20 | Early contacts with leading Labour figures suggested that on this question at least they might prove more flexible than the Conservatives . |
| 21 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 22 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 23 | The increase is the 15th since the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , when the charge for a prescription was just 20p per item . |
| 24 | But you know the Labour Party is worse than the Conservatives for traditions are n't they ? |
| 25 | The North has been hit by changes in the British economy ; changes which were already apparent before the Conservatives took office , but which accelerated during the 1980s . |
| 26 | PRIVATE client stockbroker Adams & Nevile is hopeful that the Conservatives will remain in government following the Tory manifesto promise of a ‘ millenium fund ’ to promote British national pride . |
| 27 | But the Labour government fell in October 1951 and the Conservatives took up office . |
| 28 | They sensed the change in political mood and were anxious that the Conservatives should not get out of step with the public . |
| 29 | Objections were particularly strong from rural areas so it is not surprising that the Conservatives rejected the Redcliffe-Maud scheme . |
| 30 | Looking at political balance ( perhaps the most sensitive matter ) , the Conservatives were given , on all programmes , more actuality coverage than Labour and other parties combined ( 1,788 actuality excerpts of Conservative MPs on 971 occasions , as opposed to 1,241 excerpts on 851 occasions for MPs of all other parties , in the period analysed by Blumler ) , but this is not surprising as the Conservatives are the majority in the House . |