Example sentences of "party [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 2 | Parties had to exceed a 5 per cent threshold of votes in either the Czech Lands or Slovakia in order to win seats ; votes for unsuccessful parties were redistributed proportionally among successful ones . |
| 3 | The party relied on its own fund-raising while other political parties were helped financially by business and other organisations . |
| 4 | When watching parliamentary television , I have not often felt that there was an unfair political balance and none of the Members I interviewed raised this matter , except that one Liberal Democrat believed that the smaller parties were squeezed out of live coverage on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 5 | The commando parties were to come ashore at three points : over the bows of Campbeltown ; on the Old Entrance quays ; and on the Old Mole . |
| 6 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 7 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 8 | Four MPs of South Africa 's liberal opposition Democratic Party were suspended yesterday for holding secret talks with Mr Nelson Mandela with a view to joining the African National Congress . |
| 9 | It was pleasing to note that many recommendations made by our Agriculture Working Party were taken up in the scheme . |
| 10 | Sergeant Collier — the prisoners may refresh themselves. , The party was drawing up with a jingle and a grinding of hooves on a cobbled forecourt . |
| 11 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 12 | A small opposition group called the Japan New Party was rising quickly in the polls by promising freshness and honesty . |
| 13 | If the Labour Party was to recover intellectually from the collapse of MacDonald 's " biological gradualism " and to build its local organisation it needed support from radical intellectuals and from the youth . |
| 14 | By the end of 1934 , then , the Independent Labour Party was falling apart in all directions . |
| 15 | There was not a lot to tour in the inclement weather , though the Bohemia concert party was marked down for a visit , and the bandstand too held promise , though with all these people about , she doubted she would hear the music . |
| 16 | It was a measure of Willi 's popularity that , even though his pre-production party was known about by nearly everyone who was anyone in Hochhauser , and even though the guest list was extremely small , no-one ever felt slighted because they had n't been invited . |
| 17 | The working party was set up as a result of the HCIMA Quality Forum held at the Institute of Directors in April last year . |
| 18 | A working party was set up under the auspices of the Institute of British Geographers , and their work is being expanded by support from ESRC . |
| 19 | During the year a working party was set up under the Chairmanship of QC to look into every possible way in which the financial burden of young entrants to the Bar can be eased . |
| 20 | A basic training working party was set up in 1986 with the task of designing a national basic training common core . |
| 21 | A Russian Green Party was set up in May [ see ED no. 47 ] . |
| 22 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 23 | The working party was set up by the Church 's Communications Committee and is headed by Canon Colin Semper , former Head of Religious Radio at the BBC . |
| 24 | The National Working Party was set up by the federal government in 1988 to encourage the fair and accurate portrayal of women in the media . |
| 25 | The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions . |
| 26 | This first phase ( 1934–9 ) is to be contrasted with a subsequent postwar phase ( 1945–56 ) , corresponding almost exactly with the lifespan of the French Fourth Republic and characterised in contrast by the bitter and polarized struggle of the Cold War period , a moment of relentless anti-communism in the Western world , a moment of uncompromising Zhdanovism in the Soviet sphere , when the cultural production of the French communist party was envisaged exclusively as a legitimate and necessary line of defence against an increasingly hostile capitalist onslaught . |
| 27 | Captain Schott 's party was picked up by Timpson on the night of 13 July , but Warr 's failed to arrive . |
| 28 | The issue flared up when the party was doing badly for other reasons , and subsided when it was not . |