Example sentences of "[art] conservatives ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives ' bonfire of planning controls has led to ill-thought out development , often against the wishes of local people . |
| 2 | The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 . |
| 3 | The Conservatives ' advantage over Labour in the post-election survey is nearly double what it was in 1964 and treble what it was as recently as on Tuesday and Wednesday last week : 1964Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Now Conservatives ' best 45 45 43 44 45 52 Labour best 34 37 38 38 38 31 Con advantage+11 +8 +5 +6 +7+21 While the Tories were triumphing on the issues , they were also triumphing on the matter of personal leadership . |
| 4 | Labour will end the Conservatives ' freeze on benefits for widowed mothers and other lone parents . |
| 5 | But there is no evidence to suggest that those buying shares in privatised industries have then gone on to buy other shares , and the Conservatives ' boast of a share-owning democracy does not stand up to serious examination . |
| 6 | In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ . |
| 7 | We will reform the Conservatives ' scheme for the local management of schools . |
| 8 | We will reform the Conservatives ' scheme for the local management of schools . |
| 9 | The Conservatives ' share of the vote was 14.6 per cent , compared with 19.8 per cent in the previous local elections in 1985 [ see pp. 34505-06 ] . |
| 10 | Has the Conservatives ' emphasis on strong policing and punishment succeeded where the supposedly soft approach of the Labour Party had failed ? |
| 11 | Turning to the White Paper , to be published before the next party conference , he said it would set out the Conservatives ' agenda for the rest of this century . |
| 12 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 13 | Since then , the Conservatives ' system for electing a leader has effectively removed this power from the monarch , and providing each election produces an outright winning party , her actions are pretty well preordained . |
| 14 | Norman MacAskill , Inverness , said the Conservatives ' case for re-structuring councils was fraudulent , as the majority of those who wanted single-tier councils saw it as part of the move to a Scottish parliament . |
| 15 | WEST : New voices and opinions will be vying to be heard in Westminster now the Conservatives ' grip on the region has been eased slightly , especially by the defeat of the Tory chairman , Mr Patten , in Bath , writes Paul Stokes . |
| 16 | ‘ Down with the KGB ’ and ‘ Down with Ligachev ’ ( Yegor Ligachev , the conservatives ' leader on the party 's politburo ) were among the milder slogans carried by the demonstrators . |
| 17 | Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make . |
| 18 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
| 19 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 20 | In contrast to the increasing emphasis in child welfare on parental responsibility rather than rights , the Conservatives ' policy since 1980 of making the education system far more responsive to parental demands has involved an extension of parental rights . |
| 21 | Critics of the Conservatives ' policy on health point to the decline in the number of people having eye tests since the introduction of a fixed charge for the service . |
| 22 | Unemployment was less easily ignored ; it reached a peak in the winter of 1902–03 and remained high , especially in the winter months , throughout the Conservatives ' period in office . |
| 23 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 24 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |