Example sentences of "at the [adj] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that , in 1837 , Buxton initially opposed an immediate move against apprenticeship it is doubtful how much deference would have been shown his leadership by the convention , but he had anyway lost his seat at the recent election . |
| 2 | I have no detail of what individual Liberal Democrat councillors in Brent did , but , if it was perceived by the electorate to have been wrong , they would have undoubtedly paid the political consequences at the following election . |
| 3 | The outgoing president , Jaime Paz Zamora , promised at the 1989 election to continue free-market economic reforms , but has not fully kept his word . |
| 4 | At the general election of 1929 the landlady could be heard telling a Tory canvasser that everyone in the house would vote Conservative and Ramsey said forcibly that he was voting Labour ( there was no Liberal candidate ) . |
| 5 | It had been agreed that at the General Election which would follow the end of the emergency period , there would no ‘ coupons ’ , pacts or other Party arrangements . |
| 6 | On his retirement from the Civil Service six years ago … he became President of the Clapham Liberal Association , and at the General Election of 1916 was the chosen parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of South Battersea where he put up a strong fight against odds for what he firmly and honestly believed to be the tight . |
| 7 | He could not , however , turn this sympathy to good effect and his New Party , formed in March 1931 with the aid of £50,000 from William Morris , the later Lord Nuffield , failed to attract widespread political support and collapsed into political oblivion at the general election of October 1931 . |
| 8 | AT THE general election five years ago , the British people experienced a surge of renewed self-confidence . |
| 9 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
| 10 | It probably cost us seats at the general election . |
| 11 | She was elected to Parliament at the general election in April . |
| 12 | Does n't he remember that at the General Election the tabloids and so-called quality newspapers slaughtered Labour leader Neil Kinnock who did not have an affair with an actress or take freebie holidays ? |
| 13 | Mr Faber won Westbury , Wilts , with a 12,618 majority at the General Election in April . |
| 14 | The People 's Party should also be benefiting from the little-noticed collapse of the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) , a party that took votes away from it at the general election in 1989 . |
| 15 | Despite Fascist claims that the working class of the East End was with them , Lewis could muster only 154 votes at the general election . |
| 16 | And people who might even have voted Labour , or Lib Dem at the general election , at the first opinion poll they 'll say they vote Conservative . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When the Nationalists won only one seat at the general election of 1970 , the tension went out of the argument . |
| 19 | The starting-point in the chapter is the ideal to which the British system of government is presumed to correspond , in which policy making is seen as the responsibility of our representatives in Parliament , who answer to the people at the general election for their stewardship of the public interest . |
| 20 | This effort on Nizan 's part to promote orthodox sectarian communist party ideology within a bourgeois context found no greater expression than during the year he spent in Bourg-en-Bresse , when he was at one and the same time philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande and communist party candidate at the general election of 1932 . |
| 21 | Well I 'd think they 'd have to be good , they er er at Bolton at the General Election , they put Bolton Southeast through a lot of Bolton West and Northeast but |
| 22 | This has been particularly true of the Parliament which was returned at the General Election on 9 April 1992 . |
| 23 | The consequence is that the only way to secure reform is to secure the defeat of every Conservative candidate in Scotland at the general election . |
| 24 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 25 | That is why we know that people will not only feel that it is unfair and understand that it is unfair , but will at the general election bring home to roost the chickens that many Tory Members will be voting on at 10 pm tonight . |
| 26 | At the general election we shall be justified in saying that the Conservative party can not again claim to be the party of law and order . |
| 27 | The vote for the Green Party , which did not contest the seat at the general election , was only 2 per cent . |
| 28 | At the general election on March 24 , 1990 [ see pp. 37320-21 ] , the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) , led by Bob Hawke , gained a fourth consecutive term of office , defeating a coalition of the Liberal and National parties . |
| 29 | At the general election on Oct. 27 , 1990 , the National Party , led by Jim Bolger , defeated the ruling Labour Party , led by Mike Moore , and returned to power after six years in opposition [ see p. 37781 ] . |
| 30 | At the general election on March 5 , Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap . |