Example sentences of "the conservatives [unc] " in BNC.

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1 It is not a well-drilled rally like the Conservatives ' .
2 Ministers are also determined to use the Tory conference to counter-attack Labour 's successful conference week and lift the Conservatives ' sagging spirits .
3 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 .
4 However , the debate and the reception accorded to Mr Lawson 's speech was a striking demonstration of the Conservatives ' capacity to close ranks : proof , if proof were needed , of their party 's most formidable political resource .
5 Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered .
6 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 ) .
7 As the election approached , perceptions about party chances became more homogeneous and the predictability of different perceptions of Conservative and Alliance chances sank to a very low level : most voters thought that the Conservatives ' chances were good and that Alliance chances were poor .
8 Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use .
9 All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency .
10 It was widely believed that the Conservatives ' heavy defeat in the Vale of Glamorgan by-election in May 1989 was partly due to the campaign of local general practitioners against the government 's health plans .
11 The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership .
12 The Conservatives ' original goal in opposition was to stabilize the total public spending figure in real terms at its 1977 level and for that total to fall as a share of GDP as the economy grew .
13 The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents .
14 In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ .
15 The Edwardian ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ and the Conservatives ' wartime recovery offer the chance for a brief historical assessment of the ideological origins of the Thatcherite revolution .
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 MR NORMAN Tebbit 's decision to raise the stakes in the Conservatives ' Hong Kong immigration row with a brutal attack on the Cabinet 's policy last night convinced some MPs that he is preparing a bid for the party leadership when Mrs Thatcher retires .
18 But the conservatives ' influence has lately seemed on the wane .
19 It was returned to office in May 1929 with 287 seats to the Conservatives ' 261 and the Liberals ' 59 .
20 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 .
21 Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support .
22 At the Conservatives ' daily news conference , Mr Mellor , the Treasury Chief Secretary , recalled the sharp fall in share prices on Wednesday after opinion polls indicating Labour had a clear lead .
23 A BILL to replace the Conservatives ' local taxes with ‘ fair rates ’ heads a list of three measures that Labour would introduce within weeks of taking office , Mr Kinnock said at a media briefing in London yesterday .
24 READERS of this column last week were introduced to Mr Shaun Woodward , the former television producer who , since he is the Conservatives ' ’ Director of Communications ’ , and therefore the senior Conservative spin doctor , was referred to here as Dr Woodward .
25 Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support .
26 At the Conservatives ' daily press briefing Mr Major unreservedly backed Mr Baker .
27 ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats .
28 That is the essence of the Conservatives ' problem .
29 The Conservatives ' position has improved considerably since Mr Major became Prime Minister but they were actually better placed relative to Labour when they lost to Harold Wilson in 1964. 1964AprilNow 1990 Conservatives best 45 35 45 Labour best 34 46 38 Tory advantage+1111 +7
30 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 .
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