Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] party " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost before the mooring was completed the beaching party were towing out the beaching legs in order to get the aircraft into the hangar as soon as possible . |
| 2 | MRS THATCHER has cunningly provoked the Labour party and the media into pushing her into holding a general election at the best time for the Conservative party . |
| 3 | Brown had , very incautiously , said some things at a private dinner party that on a literal construction would have implicated the Labour Party in a rather nasty intrigue . |
| 4 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 5 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 6 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 7 | It is potentially hugely divisive given the Scottish party 's left-wing sensibilities , but less so if working-class traditionalists like Clarke can go down Smith 's route to modernity . |
| 8 | Despite strong condemnation of the National Government by the Left , there is little evidence that the voters regarded the Labour Party as a suitable alternative . |
| 9 | Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality . |
| 10 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 11 | Better that we get rid of these people in the Labour Party if they do not want our involvement let them go and form their own party , as a trade union ordinarily formed originally formed the Labour Party ! |
| 12 | ‘ My Ernie 's joined the Communist Party , ’ she announced gravely . |
| 13 | He 's joined the Liberal Party , and now he 's a very important cog in the cabinet . |
| 14 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
| 15 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |
| 16 | Now we hear he has joined the Labour Party , which forms the ruling group in an uneasy deal with the SNP . |
| 17 | A high-powered focus on this issue , alongside the campaign on the health service , would undoubtedly have won the Labour Party the general election . |
| 18 | According to my understanding of , of Labour history , it was er during the war years , at one of the Labour Party conferences , that a NUPE resolution supported by COHSE , actually er brought about some of the , the , the many things that were written within the Beveridge report , and committed the Labour Party to the foundation of the National Health Service that would be free at the points of need for every member of the community . |
| 19 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 20 | Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election . |
| 21 | The party was delighted to have got its hands back on to the levers of power and to have smashed the Labour Party in the process . |
| 22 | What is more , they have caught the Labour party without a spokesman able to put its objections clearly when he is called upon to address them . |
| 23 | So whatever reassurance the Party gives , what matters more is whether the peasants actually genuinely erm trusted the Communist Party and had |
| 24 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 25 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 26 | Others had quit the Communist Party in reaction against its " social fascist " line . |
| 27 | And having prepared the Tory Party to lose under Mr Major , will his victory now assume the misleading proportions of a sensational personal triumph ? |
| 28 | That is why we have costed the Labour party programme in the document which I have with me . |
| 29 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 30 | ‘ She told me she and Mellor had long chats about politics , and that it had been suggested by the Prime Minister that at the end of the year Mellor would be made the new Party chairman . ’ |