Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the tories " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter . |
| 2 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 3 | HOW apt that party-changing Dr David Owen is to do his bit for the Tories now — having been sent to Serbia by the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | The SDLP 's public support for the Tories in the 1987 General Election caused its former leader , Gerry Fitt to comment : ‘ I would not vote for the SDLP because it is not a socialist party … |
| 5 | To move to the more ‘ conjunctural ’ factors in working class support for the Tories : it is not plausible , in retrospect , to ascribe all the votes necessary to the preservation of Tory government over the '50s to stable and definite ‘ Tory ’ social collectivities . |
| 6 | Moreover , an exaggerated impression of the growth of popular support for the Tories is conveyed by comparing Anne 's reign with the period of the Parliamentary Exclusion Crisis . |
| 7 | The National Health Service was a genuine concern to many people , and for this and similar reasons , he believed , Margaret Thatcher could not possibly have won the next election for the Tories . |
| 8 | Labour 's Alan Milburn and Michael Fallon , who is defending the seat for the Tories , said they would not appear on the same political platform as Dr Clarke . |
| 9 | A favourable vote for the Tories on Maastricht and hopes that the Democrats will revive the US economy triggered a mini buying spree . |
| 10 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 11 | There was a vacuum on the left , he said ; Labour was without a convincing creed of its own ; it was exhausted intellectually and divided internally ; it was blocking progress and delaying the defeat of the Tories . |
| 12 | Chris Abbott , Liberal Democrat candidate said last month 's unemployment figure of 152,900 in the northern region , an increase of 700 , reflected the indifference of the Tories to the human tragedy of unemployment . |
| 13 | There was a buoyant mood among his advisers , who were confident that their surveys in critical marginals showed Labour on course to make significant gains at the expense of the Tories , particularly in the West Midlands and the North . |
| 14 | His talk of the Tories in Scotland winning back seats and increasing their votes and their majorities is exactly the kind of spin on the election result that Tory apologists are desperate should gain political currency . |
| 15 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Tories over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 16 | The Alliance campaign , with the differing emphasis posed by Liberals ' David Steel , who was of the centre-left , and the Social Democrat , David Owen , who contemplated a possible coalition with the Tories , was a disaster . |
| 17 | There would be ructions , especially if he went into coalition with the Tories . |
| 18 | He said he did not pretend that a coalition with the Tories or Labour would not produce ‘ difficulties and tensions ’ in his party . |
| 19 | A poll at the weekend showed that seven out of 10 Protestants would want the Ulster Unionists to side with the Tories if no party wins an overall majority . |
| 20 | That 's certainly true in Oxford West and Abingdon , where the Lib Dems are hoping to woo the Labour voters they need to take the seat from the Tories . |
| 21 | The Conservatives went into the campaign in a worse position than when they lost to Labour under Harold Wilson in 1964 , and that position , if anything , deteriorated , yet there seems to have been a last-minute surge in the Tories ’ favour . |
| 22 | As a result , the urban masses turned to the Labour Party and the suburbanites in self-defence to the Tories . |
| 23 | The sooner the Liberal Democrats accept that they too need a pre-election deal to avoid extinction , the sooner some viable opposition to the Tories can begin to be created . |
| 24 | As the only viable West Country alternative to the Tories — there are no Labour MPs between Bristol and Penzance — the Liberal Democrats are benefiting from simmering resentment that , while the boom years largely past the region by , the recession has hit agriculture , tin mining , and tourism . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrats under Ashdown are enthusiastically pro-market and anti-trade union ; they are seeking to create an anti-socialist alternative to the Tories rather than an anti-Tory alliance . |
| 26 | No other alternative to the Tories is on offer . |
| 27 | The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power . |
| 28 | Even many voters who dislike and fear the Labour Party are tempted to register their disgust at the Tories ' failures by voting Liberal Democrat . |
| 29 | Immigration has so far played a relatively minor part in the election campaign , and Mr Baker 's decision to raise it now will be seen as a further attempt by the Tories to prevent their support slipping , particularly among skilled workers and their families . |
| 30 | Three years earlier , Churchill had signalled a similar acceptance on the part of the Tories when he said , ‘ Party differences are now in practice mainly those of emphasis ’ ( quoted Gilmour , 1977 , p. 20 ) . |