Example sentences of "[prep] the conservatives ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Falklands factor ’ would be seen as a principal reason for the Conservatives ' unexpectedly good showing in the local council elections that year , and , too , for the return of Margaret Thatcher for a second term as prime minister at the General Election of 1983 . |
| 2 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
| 3 | This was partly due to the timescale involved ( the commitment to privatise during the Conservatives ' third term ruled out any complex break-up ) , but was also due to the problems involved with the nuclear industry . |
| 4 | However , promises were made to shift the emphasis of policy during the Conservatives ' third term towards reforming the private rented sector of the housing market . |
| 5 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 6 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 7 | Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader . |
| 8 | However , the debate and the reception accorded to Mr Lawson 's speech was a striking demonstration of the Conservatives ' capacity to close ranks : proof , if proof were needed , of their party 's most formidable political resource . |
| 9 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 10 | That is the essence of the Conservatives ' problem . |
| 11 | TEACHER unions should accept the implications of the Conservatives ' election victory and abandon their opposition to opt-out schools , the leader of one of the main classroom organisations said yesterday . |
| 12 | After the announcement of the Conservatives ' general election victory , gilts enjoyed a period of steady demand from investors , including those from overseas , and yields fell from just under 10% to a little above 9% . |
| 13 | The scenes I witnessed and conversations I had with students supported the idea that the graduates were the ‘ victims ’ of the conservatives ' anger . |
| 14 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 15 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 16 | In this chapter we have tried to give some idea of the impact of the Conservatives ' economic and social policies upon those crimes which do not fit into their own view of criminality . |
| 17 | The aim of this chapter is to assess the achievements of the Conservatives ' years in office . |
| 18 | Critics of the Conservatives ' policy on health point to the decline in the number of people having eye tests since the introduction of a fixed charge for the service . |
| 19 | Despite the Conservatives ' election victory and the easing of rates since their high point in August 1990 , recovery seemed a long way off even before the events of Black Wednesday . |
| 20 | Unemployment was less easily ignored ; it reached a peak in the winter of 1902–03 and remained high , especially in the winter months , throughout the Conservatives ' period in office . |
| 21 | It is not a well-drilled rally like the Conservatives ' . |
| 22 | Far from being ‘ independent ’ , Trident , like the Conservatives ' manifesto insistence on Britain ‘ leading the way ’ , is just a hollow shell . |
| 23 | Over the coming months Labour will be concentrating on the cost of local government reform , and mobilising support , from all parties , against the Conservatives ' plans . |
| 24 | Arms sales recovered with the Conservatives ' return . |
| 25 | While we have charted the moves away from the more strident outpourings of the 1979 campaign , within the Conservatives ' law and order strategy over the last decade , it should not be assumed that they will not revert to this rhetoric if the need arises . |
| 26 | MR NORMAN Tebbit 's decision to raise the stakes in the Conservatives ' Hong Kong immigration row with a brutal attack on the Cabinet 's policy last night convinced some MPs that he is preparing a bid for the party leadership when Mrs Thatcher retires . |
| 27 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 28 | Indeed in the Conservatives ' 1987 Election Manifesto , there was ample support for the NHS and no mention of an enhanced role for the private sector . |
| 29 | But the much more rigorous policy embodied in the Conservatives ' Industrial Relations Act of 1971 was a revolution in the long story . |
| 30 | This ‘ hard line strategy ’ reveals yet again the contradictions inherent in the Conservatives ' law and order policy . |