Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] party " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cut a long story short — and I 'd be glad to give the details to anyone who wants — it was in Moers that our force met the Communist Party leadership of the Ruhr . |
| 2 | But , above all , it divided the Liberal Party for in 1916 David Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister of the Coalition government . |
| 3 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |
| 4 | In many places the Left Book Club made the Labour Party look like a stagnant backwater , while demanding a less disciplined or full-time commitment than membership of the Communist Party . |
| 5 | Fifth , it examines whether recent elections have produced a realignment in the party system ; have three successive handsome election victories now made the Conservative party the natural majority party ? |
| 6 | The field-grey of the Wehrmacht and a new generation of military heroes made the brown-shirted Party functionaries stand out in even more unattractive light than before the war . |
| 7 | Harvey Gantt became the Democratic party 's first black Senate nominee in North Carolina in the 20th century when he defeated Mike Easley by 57 to 43 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | Nirj Deva , 43 , became the Conservative Party 's first Asian MP when he won the Brentford and Isleworth constitutency by 2,086 votes . |
| 9 | Increasingly , the Labour party became the dominant party of the North of England , and the Conservative party that of the South . |
| 10 | Other apparent beneficiaries of a protest vote against the existing system were the Republican Party , the Green Party and the Sicily-based La Rete ( the Network ) , which on an anti-Mafia platform became the leading party in Palermo , Sicily . |
| 11 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 12 | It was he who , as we shall see , ultimately replaced George Lansbury as the leader of the party with Attlee and who got the Labour Party to move from its general support of peace and pacifism towards the need to prepare to meet the threat of war with European fascism . |
| 13 | Can he rise again , or is it all over for the Moses who led the Labour Party out of the wilderness , asks James Langton |
| 14 | Jenny Weinstein , CCETSW 's head of practice learning who led the working party , said some members wanted a reduction in the numbers of students entering DipSW courses . |
| 15 | He was elected to parliament as MP for Orkney and Shetland in 1950 , and led the Liberal Party from 1956 till 1967 . |
| 16 | Once again he led the storming party to the checkout flourishing the swipe card . |
| 17 | Moreover , it reported some of the speeches and activities of Nyerere , who led the nationalist party ( TANU ) from its formation in 1954 . |
| 18 | By using his head Private W. Ray led the detached party past several German posts to rejoin his platoon commander . |
| 19 | Edward , in bed one day with a clever country girl rebelling deliciously against the perceived repressions of her class , learned between kisses that Sir Joseph Ball — a former MI5 man who now led the Conservative Party 's organizational machine — had used his old position to tap Churchill 's phone for Chamberlain and monitor his associates . |
| 20 | Without further explanation , their escorts led the puzzled party away from their quarters . |
| 21 | In his keynote speech to the conference on June 26 Hawke savagely attacked the Liberal-National Party opposition and promised to lead his party to a fifth election victory . |
| 22 | I look forward to her performances on the Government 's front bench ’ ) then attacked the Labour Party , sacked the Party 's advertising agency , and called for still greater efforts from the Party 's rank and file . |
| 23 | In October 1981 , Ceauşescu repeated his direct intervention when the miners of Motru rioted and attacked the local Party HQ . |
| 24 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 25 | Presumably its resources were thought to have been supplanted by those of the advertising agency that helped the Conservative Party to power . |
| 26 | ( The deputy leader , Seamus Mallon described the Labour Party as ‘ Cromwellian ’ which is certainly not a term of endearment . ) |
| 27 | Gramoz Pashko , Deputy Prime Minister in June-December 1991 , who had been a founder member of the DP , accused his old party of diluting and altering the reform programme especially as regards privatization , and described the new party as a liberal formation of the centre-right committed to institutional , economic and cultural reforms . |
| 28 | The proposals in the three Bills presented by my right hon. Friends and myself have captured the public imagination and caught the Labour party without a policy . |
| 29 | From 1917 onwards , many referred to the need for proportional representation and some charged the Labour Party with fomenting class warfare through its parliamentary and municipal campaigns . |
| 30 | When the group got closer , they broke into a gallop and charged the small party . |