Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are very few marginals that the Conservatives retained with a majority smaller than the drop in the number of people registered — only four , in fact : Coventry South West , Kensington , Edmonton , and Eltham . |
| 2 | New figures show the burglary rate in the region has risen five-fold in some areas since the Conservatives came to power in nineteen seventy nine . |
| 3 | At a lunch on polling day — not at Mark 's Club — he assured fellow guests that the Conservatives would win an overall majority of 20 seats . |
| 4 | His mistake was to assume that the Labour party would provide a more receptive political vehicle for his ideas than the Conservatives . |
| 5 | There are seventy seats and the Conservatives are the largest group with thirty three . |
| 6 | The reasons for the gilts ' good performance since the election are the feelings among investors that the Conservatives are determined to keep inflation low and also that they are more likely to control government spending . |
| 7 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 8 | All the metropolitan dailies published in 1855 as well as in 1870 were committed to either the Liberals or the Conservatives ; the same was also broadly true of the English provincial daily press . |
| 9 | By subjecting voters to a combination of bribery , economic pressure and downright coercion , the Ministry of the Interior and , at local level , caciques — bigwigs and political ‘ bosses ’ — constructed pre-arranged governmental majorities for one or other of the two main ‘ oligarchic ’ parties , the Liberals and the Conservatives . |
| 10 | Because not everything was going to be compartmentalized as an issue exclusively for the liberals or the socialists or the conservatives , so there 's going to be a degree of cross party support on certain issues , and this indeed could be one of them . |
| 11 | The opinion polls suggest a gap of less than one percentage point between the ruling Socialists and the conservatives of the opposition People 's Party . |
| 12 | Analysts believe it will pave the way for further cuts if the Conservatives retain power but fear a victory for Labour or a hung parliament could lead to higher interest rates . |
| 13 | The Labour Party was influenced by the county boroughs and the Conservatives by the counties because that was where their current political strength rested in local government . |
| 14 | Labour favoured a unitary system based on the experience of the county boroughs while the Conservatives preferred a two-tier structure based on the existing counties . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The recent meeting of Ulster 's leaders at Downing Street , the granting of a Commons debate on security and the appointment of Mr Jonathan Caine as special adviser to Peter Brooke , Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , helped to improve relations between Unionist MPs and the Conservatives as the election loomed . |