Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] party " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats . |
| 2 | After his election Gallacher applied for the Labour Party whip which , as he was not a Party member and had defeated someone who was , could " not be granted . |
| 3 | In the election of 1918 they could not bear it and both voted for the Labour Party . |
| 4 | Gallup Poll data showed that in these four elections , 79% or more of upper-middle-class voters and 69% or more of middle-class voters cast their votes for the Conservative party , while more than 50% of working-class and very poor voters voted for the Labour party . |
| 5 | Almost all Protestants voted for the Unionist Party and Catholics either voted for nationalists or abstained . |
| 6 | Nine first class seats have been booked for the Royal party . |
| 7 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 9 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 10 | If you do not wish to be represented by counsel and solicitor then you must lodge here , in person , ten copies of your appeal as required by Rule of Court 269(b) , plus ten copies for the Edinburgh solicitors acting for the other party , together with a Court of Session process in terms of Rule of Court 20 . |
| 11 | These costs are paid straight into the Legal Aid Fund and go to defray the actual costs of the action in the accounts rendered to the Fund by solicitors and counsel acting for the assisted party . |
| 12 | ‘ The IAC consider it damaging for the Labour Party to regard the SDLP as their equivalent in Northern Ireland and the IAC believe the Party should distance itself from the SDLP . ’ |
| 13 | However , support for the Unionist Party was neither total nor uncritical . |
| 14 | Opinion polls in June 1991 suggested that support for the National Party had fallen to 35 per cent , while that for the Labour Party had risen to 42 per cent . |
| 15 | The same can not be said for the Labour party which fought the previous two elections on a programme that the hon. Member for Walsall , South ( Mr. George ) said was disastrous and should have been consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 16 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 17 | Like the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , the hon. Lady leads for the Labour party in a weak suit . |
| 18 | SIR — Can I , as a Catholic , following the guidance of Pope John Paul II , vote for the Labour Party manifesto ? |
| 19 | So , for high taxes vote for the Labour party , and for low taxes vote Conservative . |
| 20 | Vote for the Democratic Party , they say , and bring New York to your neighbourhood . |
| 21 | Although he is a senior and successful Congress ( I ) figure , and is Minister of State for External Affairs , Mr Singh is being challenged for the ruling party 's nomination by the present Maharajah 's son , Vishwendra Singh . |
| 22 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 23 | By June 1937 the National Council of Labour , effectively speaking for the Labour Party , decided to reverse its Edinburgh policy and to oppose non-intervention . |
| 24 | It is also clear that in the last two weeks the whole country , as it heard different voices and different noises , has wondered who is speaking for the Labour party . |
| 25 | ‘ Speaking for the Labour Party — ’ |
| 26 | no , you , must vote really , must vote , vote for the Labour Party |
| 27 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 28 | The slogans of the main parties could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for the other party ’ ; and the only person rising in the polls was the leader of the Liberal Democrats , whose message could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for negative campaigning ’ . |
| 29 | I said to myself I will not vote for the Conservative party again . |
| 30 | However , the need to maximize the anti-power sharing vote convinced both DUP and Vanguard to instruct their followers to vote for the other party as their second or third preference in what was to be a single transferable vote type of proportional representation election . |