Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where socialist parties came to power — in France , Spain or , in coalition , in Italy — they quickly realised they had to be modernising parties ready to put market economics ahead of old ideology . |
| 2 | Contrary to Labour 's claims , the report said the proportion of national income spent on education is almost the same now ( 5.1 per cent ) as it was when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 ( 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 5 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 there were 1,087,000 jobless . |
| 6 | The increase is the 15th since the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , when the charge for a prescription was just 20p per item . |
| 7 | Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form . |
| 8 | Police salaries adjusted for inflation went up from 983 million in 1979 when the Conservatives came to power , to 2,378 million by 1987 , a rise of some 47 per cent in real terms . |
| 9 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 10 | When the Conservatives came to power they continued these policies , but with the crucial difference that efforts to control local government expenditure reduced the resources available to inner urban areas . |
| 11 | Since the Conservatives came to power they have considerably weakened local government and greater centralisation has been the consequence . |
| 12 | Does my right hon Friend agree that the figures confirm the tremendous advances that have been made in health care since the Conservatives came to power ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since 1979 when the Conservatives came to power Durham Constabulary has received approval for 40 extra officers , a three per cent increase . |
| 15 | After criticising Government policy since 1979 , when the Conservatives came to power , Mr Clarke said : ‘ For John Major to claim credit for Hoover jobs staying Scotland — thanks to him opting out of the Social Chapter and keeping wages down — is a disgraceful betrayal of the Scottish workforce . |
| 16 | The privatized companies had together employed well over half a million people when the Conservatives came to power . |
| 17 | He had told Ladislav when the Communists came to power : ‘ This is the beginnings of a police state . ’ |
| 18 | After the communists came to power , the name was changed to the Stalin Allee . |
| 19 | In Romania , politicians ' reliance on relatives was a strong tradition long before the Communists came to power . |
| 20 | The only expatriate survivor from the old days was Sophie , a Pole whose family had lost all their property when the Communists came to power after the Second World War . |
| 21 | Cardinal Roger Etchegaray is the highest Vatican official to go to China since the communists came to power in 1949 . |
| 22 | When the Conservatives returned to power in 1979 they further revised the PES system . |
| 23 | When the Conservatives swept to power in 1979 , just seven per cent of people owned shares . |
| 24 | He suggested that Labour governments came to power only when there had been a radical change in the climate of opinion . |
| 25 | The Soviet republics in Bavaria and Hungary , in the event , soon collapsed , uprisings in Germany and Bulgaria in 1923 proved abortive , and in most of Europe right-wing governments came to power which often dealt harshly with local communist parties and trade unions . |
| 26 | Elections to all the Republic Assemblies were held in 1990 : in April and early May in Slovenia and Croatia ( where the communists were defeated — see p. 37381 ) ; in November and December in Serbia and Montenegro ( where the Socialist Party — renamed communists — gained majorities ) , and in Macedonia and Bosnia-Hercegovina ( where nationalists came to power — see pp. 37923-24 ) . |
| 27 | When the nationalists came to power in 1939 , union organization in RENFE was systematically destroyed and republican supporters among the workforce were purged . |
| 28 | Theories of how elites rose to power and later degenerated were also pervasive in ancient and medieval philosophies . |
| 29 | A snapshot of the Hitler years Sixty years after the Nazis came to power , David Jackson Young talks to a woman who was a child at the time of the Third Reich |
| 30 | Craxi clung to power until last Thursday , seemingly prepared to pull the PSI down with him . |