Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation . |
| 3 | Could it be that the people of this country are storing up champagne to celebrate the wondrous event of the Tories ' being smashed at the next election ? |
| 4 | LEADING Liberal-Democrat MP David Alton will quit at the next election in protest at the party 's decision yesterday to back pro-abortion policies . |
| 5 | Captain Don Ward asked to be readmitted after Mr Taylor was defeated at the general election , but party officials have now decided he ca n't come back . |
| 6 | The problem for the hon. Member for Dartford is that , once he has been defeated at the next election , he will be replaced as a candidate by the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) . |
| 7 | In Victoria the opinion polls suggested that the ALP would be defeated at the next election . |
| 8 | Give them the power to choose at the General Election and they will decide the future of the N H S. The future of the N H S is safe with the Labour Party , with your lot it 's privatisation , it 's started already and we 're a General Election away from the end of the N H S. |
| 9 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 10 | The outgoing president , Jaime Paz Zamora , promised at the 1989 election to continue free-market economic reforms , but has not fully kept his word . |
| 11 | ‘ Either a Tory or a Labour minority government will look at the next election down the track and say , ‘ Hang on , we ai n't going to win ’ . ’ |
| 12 | He lost by 2,412 votes but returned to win at the General Election three months later with a majority of over 3,000 . |
| 13 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 14 | The voters will decide at the next election . |
| 15 | It was further provided by Statute that , in supplying a vacancy occurring during the sitting of Parliament , the burgh which presided at the election of the former member should preside at the new election . |
| 16 | He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 . |
| 17 | How many seats did the Liberal Party win at the next election ? |
| 18 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 19 | We will never know how that would develop because community charge has been abolished but anyway You will note of course as well that last year in nineteen ninety one , the Conservative Party managers looked at the local election result and decided not to go in June ninety one , cos they figured they would get beaten . |
| 20 | DENIS Winston Healey is having a certain amount of characteristically mischievous fun with journalists at the moment , on the question of whether he will or will not stand at the next election . |
| 21 | For one moment , when the right hon. Gentleman first rose to speak , and given that he will not be standing at the next election , I thought that Daniel had come to judgment and that the right hon. Gentleman was going to show some concern for those who seek asylum in this country and who have fled from oppressive regimes that were supported by the Government of which he was happily a Cabinet member for so many years . |
| 22 | The last representative of the four-hundred-year-old Cecil family political tradition left at the 1987 election . |
| 23 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |
| 24 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |
| 25 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 26 | British politicians have persistently rejected the view that they should be regarded as delegates , arguing instead that their duty is to make judgements for themselves in terms of their understanding of their constituents ' best interests , while recognizing that they may , of course , be rejected at the next election if they become seriously out of touch with the people they represent . |
| 27 | That 's what we said at the general election . |
| 28 | Of the deputies elected at the federal election in June 1990 only 17 per cent were re-elected , not including any of the former federal deputy prime ministers except for Klaus . |
| 29 | I have waited 20 years for a decision on the Ardrossan-Saltcoats-Stevenston bypass , and I am sure that the Minister will give me a favourable result before I retire at the next election . |
| 30 | In the 50 seats that Labour needed to capture at the next election , people would continue to view the party with suspicion ‘ until we display democracy in our organisation ’ . |