Example sentences of "be [verb] that [art] [adj] party " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been claimed that the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher had no carefully thought-through strategy to deal with the unions when it came into office , but rather proceeded pragmatically ( Roberts , 1989 ) , nevertheless ( Young , 1990 , p. 353 ) : |
| 2 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 3 | But now we are told that the Labour party plans to increase the local contribution to no less than 20 per cent . |
| 4 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 5 | It should not be imagined that the tiny Party élite at either of these provincial levels could maintain a tight hold . |
| 6 | If that sounded a bit like the result of an army medical board it was appropriate enough : the chief purpose of this year 's conference is to signal that the Labour Party is ready once more for active service . |
| 7 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 8 | I noticed also that the chief executive of Courtauld 's said that the Labour party 's proposals for a statutory minimum wage would lead to big job losses . |
| 9 | His mistake was to assume that the Labour party would provide a more receptive political vehicle for his ideas than the Conservatives . |
| 10 | In Chase Manhattan Bank NA v Israel-British Bank NA [ 1981 ] Ch 105 , a civil case , it was held that the innocent party to an overpayment retains an equitable right where the overpayment was brought about by a mistake of fact . |