Example sentences of "[art] liberal [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was little he or Mrs Thatcher in earlier exchanges , could do to mitigate what Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal Democrats ' leader , called ‘ a shameful example ’ of human rights policy and what the shadow Foreign Secretary , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said was ‘ a policy of the three o'clock knock by police ’ . |
| 2 | MR PADDY Ashdown yesterday staked the Liberal Democrats ' claim to offer British politics a ‘ moral voice ’ for the 1990s , building on its stance over Hong Kong and the Vietnamese refugees . |
| 3 | As leader of the Liberal Democrats ' largest and wealthiest faction , Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout . |
| 4 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 5 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Paddy 's Big Step The Liberal Democrats ' well-laid plans for power-sharing may be about to bear fruit . |
| 6 | At one extreme the Gallup poll for yesterday 's Sunday Telegraph — showing the two main parties level-pegging , with the Liberal Democrats on 22 per cent — would result in a hung parliament , but with the Conservatives as the largest single party with 305 seats , compared with Labour 's 298 and the Liberal Democrats ' 24 . |
| 7 | At the other extreme , the NOP poll for the Independent on Sunday — giving Labour a three-point lead and putting the Liberal Democrats on only 17 per cent — would likewise result in a hung parliament , but this time one in which Labour would be the largest party with 317 seats , compared with the Tories ' 296 and the Liberal Democrats ' 14 . |
| 8 | THE CHOICE of the ‘ capital ’ of Cornwall 's one-time china clay industry as the venue for the Liberal Democrats ' penultimate and most glitzy election rally last night was no accident . |
| 9 | Significantly , farmers — generally reliable Tory supporters — are blaming the Government for the sins of Brussels and appear to be turning a blind eye to the Liberal Democrats ' pro-European stance . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats ' total would fall from 22 ( including by-elections ) to 16 in the new Parliament . |
| 11 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 12 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 13 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 14 | The Liberal Democrats ' first gain was Cheltenham , where the Tory candidate Mr John Taylor , failed to become the party 's first black MP . |
| 15 | Several of the early declarations were crucial to the Liberal Democrats ' chances of improving on the alliance total of 22 MPs in 1987 . |
| 16 | Despite having 48 North West seats , compared with the Conservatives ’ 29 and the Liberal Democrats ' two , Labour was bitterly disappointed by its performance . |
| 17 | The Liberal Democrats ' four seats were reduced to two . |
| 18 | Labour made a net gain of 39 seats on Thursday , chiefly because its share of the vote increased by four points , from 31 to 35 per cent , but most of this modest gain was at the Liberal Democrats ' expense , not the Tories ' . |
| 19 | The Liberal Democrats ' vote on Thursday , 18 per cent , was lower than that secured by the Liberals under David Steel in February 1974 . |
| 20 | But Wilson , 51 , the Liberal Democrats ' election campaign director , may be wishing life was that simple . |
| 21 | Mr. Mates polled 47,541 votes ( 51 percent ) compared to the Liberal Democrats ' Sue Baring on 18,376 ( 20 percent ) and Labour 's Jim Phillips on 6,840 ( 7 percent ) . |
| 22 | If smears from the far right were predictable , the campaign trail theme , echoed in the Liberal Democrats ' campaign against Ashok Kumar in Langbaurgh , that Taylor was not ‘ a local man ’ , was not . |
| 23 | Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health . |
| 24 | With anti-European Tory MPs openly defying their leader , earlier this year , it appears Mr Major must rely — once again — on the Liberal Democrats ' support . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrats ' Simon Hughes said the proposals were doomed to gather dust unless they were backed by Treasury money . |
| 26 | Compared with the previous county elections in 1989 , the Liberal Democrats ' vote rose most in the south of England — where they were generally better placed to win seats . |
| 27 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 28 | The Liberal Democrats ' success unleashed speculation about pacts , deals or at least closer co-operation between the two opposition parties . |
| 29 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 30 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |