Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] democrat ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE CHOICE of the ‘ capital ’ of Cornwall 's one-time china clay industry as the venue for the Liberal Democrats ' penultimate and most glitzy election rally last night was no accident . |
| 2 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 3 | As leader of the Liberal Democrats ' largest and wealthiest faction , Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout . |
| 4 | Earlier in the debate , the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) told us of the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for a local income tax . |
| 5 | I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman was going to say whether he was in favour of the Liberal Democrats ' position that there should not be a Secretary of State and on Labour 's position that there should be . |
| 6 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
| 7 | One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford . |
| 8 | In 1987 only half of the Progressive Democrats ' 14 TDs were elected on quotas made up of first-preference votes given to them or to party running-mates from whom they were transferred . |
| 9 | In 1989 only two of the Progressive Democrats ' six TDs were elected by votes given exclusively to their party . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's crunch meeting of the Progressive Democrats ' parliamentary party was adjourned until tomorrow , when they may be left with little option but to quit the Reynolds government . |
| 11 | More important , he delivered nearly a quarter of the Christian Democrats ' votes at national elections as a faithful lieutenant of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti . |
| 12 | But the general response of voters made nonsense of the Christian Democrats ' appeal for support for strong government . |
| 13 | But feeble personalities explain only part of the Social Democrats ' woes . |
| 14 | That is an interesting parallel with the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for local income tax , whereby local councils would be given authority to raise taxes locally — which would have a profound effect on industrial location . |
| 15 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 16 | If smears from the far right were predictable , the campaign trail theme , echoed in the Liberal Democrats ' campaign against Ashok Kumar in Langbaurgh , that Taylor was not ‘ a local man ’ , was not . |
| 17 | Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health . |
| 18 | Support for a ratified Maastricht Treaty , which included the social dimension , had equally been stated in the Liberal Democrats ' general election manifesto . |
| 19 | Significantly , farmers — generally reliable Tory supporters — are blaming the Government for the sins of Brussels and appear to be turning a blind eye to the Liberal Democrats ' pro-European stance . |
| 20 | Several of the early declarations were crucial to the Liberal Democrats ' chances of improving on the alliance total of 22 MPs in 1987 . |
| 21 | Mr. Mates polled 47,541 votes ( 51 percent ) compared to the Liberal Democrats ' Sue Baring on 18,376 ( 20 percent ) and Labour 's Jim Phillips on 6,840 ( 7 percent ) . |
| 22 | With anti-European Tory MPs openly defying their leader , earlier this year , it appears Mr Major must rely — once again — on the Liberal Democrats ' support . |
| 23 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 24 | Labour made a net gain of 39 seats on Thursday , chiefly because its share of the vote increased by four points , from 31 to 35 per cent , but most of this modest gain was at the Liberal Democrats ' expense , not the Tories ' . |