Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Labour Party appears to be more concerned about industry than the Conservatives . |
| 2 | As in 1923 , Labour had to fight on two fronts ; as in 1923 , the Liberals were , in many ways , a more dangerous enemy than the Conservatives . |
| 3 | During the year to mid-1991 by-elections were held in Knowsley on Sept. 27 , 1990 ( held by Labour with an increased percentage over the Conservatives ) ; in Eastbourne on Oct. 18 , ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 37784 ) ; in Bootle and Bradford on Nov. 8 , and in Paisley North and Paisley South on Nov. 29 ( when Labour retained all four seats ; in the Scottish constituencies the SNP advanced from fourth to second ) ; in Ribble Valley on March 7 , 1991 ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 38110 ) ; in Neath on April 4 ( when Labour retained the seat despite a large swing to Plaid Cymru — see p. 38200 ) ; in Monmouth on May 16 ( when Labour won the seat from the exports — $2,500 ) ; and in Liverpool Walton on July 4 ( when Labour retained the seat and the Conservatives came fourth — see p. 38355 ) . |
| 4 | The first is that both Labour and the Conservatives emerge more or less united — the former striking an attacking pose in the foreground , the latter stoutly closing defensive ranks behind . |
| 5 | He issued a passionate plea to Labour and the Conservatives to spell out what they would do in a hung Parliament . |
| 6 | Gallup in yesterday 's Sunday Telegraph put Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck on 37.5 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 22 . |
| 7 | Both Labour and the Conservatives ruled out a post-election pact with the Liberal Democrats , while Mr Ashdown appeared to soften his threat to vote down the legislative programme of a minority Government . |
| 8 | The three latest surveys — the third , by Audience Selection gave Labour 38 per cent , the Tories 35 and the Liberal Democrats 23 — give Mr Ashdown the support of more than 20 per cent of the electorate and suggest that his party is continuing to take support almost equally from Labour and the Conservatives , writes Anthony King . |
| 9 | IT MIGHT be fair to assume that the people who made the posters for both Labour and the Conservatives would be experts on the way the campaign has been run . |
| 10 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 11 | They came first in 66 wards and emerged as the only national political party other than Labour and the Conservatives with any metropolitan councillors . |
| 12 | However , it should be pointed out that contests between Labour and the Conservatives took place in only 91 out of 165 wards in the capped authorities in both 1986 and 1990 . |
| 13 | Under the Commission 's system the region would have had 30 constituency seats of which , given similar hypothetical patterns of voting , the Liberals , Labour and the Conservatives might have been expected to win none , two and 28 respectively . |
| 14 | Labour and the Conservatives have pitched high profile candidates into this unknown quantity . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that both Labour and the Conservatives are worried about the ’ yellow peril ’ as they call the Liberal Democrats , who are advancing from the south west into Wiltshire , Gloucestershire , Herefordshire and Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | A Labour Government would roll over on their back and uncritically accept any proposal from the European Community in order to prove that they are more communautaire than the Conservatives . |
| 17 | Without having suffered the turmoil of a leadership contest , Labour can boast that it is better prepared for an election than the Conservatives . |
| 18 | Not sure you can blame the media altogether , I noticed you said there in almost these words er , John Major will the lead the Conservative party into the next election and the Conservatives will win . |
| 19 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 20 | I do take on , I do take on one point that the Conservatives have begun to raise to make in their in their motion which what we do n't want is another heavy tier of bur bureaucracy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Milburn added : ‘ The current slump has claimed 1,300 manufacturing jobs in the town and the Conservatives have let another 3,000 jobs go begging by refusing to back Darlington with proper regional assistance . ’ |
| 23 | Thus when Labour is in office , Left-wing Labour MPs can vote for cuts in defence expenditure in the certain knowledge that the Conservatives will not join them . |
| 24 | He believes that at below 2400 points the downside of a hung parliament is limited and that there remains upside in the chance that the Conservatives ‘ could still sneak in ’ . |
| 25 | It is partly because of that false economics that the Conservatives have never had a regional policy . |
| 26 | Thus , the 1784 election led to 17 unbroken years of Pitt as prime minister ; after the First World War the coalition stayed on in name but the Conservatives won 335 seats in 1918 ; Churchill 's Great Coalition presaged the Labour landslide of 1945 and the iniquities of the Lib-Lab Pact were a major factor in Mrs Thatcher 's victory in 1979 . |
| 27 | MR MAJOR took full advantage last night of his election mandate to carry out the most extensive Government reshuffle since the Conservatives came to power 13 years ago . |
| 28 | Both the main parties were split with Labour more favourable to television than the Conservatives . |
| 29 | His remarks were seen as a hint that the Conservatives might let a minority Government led by Mr Kinnock stay in office if it toned down its programme , rather than force an immediate second election . |
| 30 | Constituency Labour Party and trade union delegates seized eagerly on the common feeling that the Conservatives economic and political trials , and the disarray of the centre parties , were at last combining to open a window of opportunity . |