Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the next general " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent trends in the geography of voting in Great Britain pose major problems for all political parties as they develop strategies for the next general election . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , now that the Conservative party is formally represented in Northern Ireland and will have candidates in the next general election there , we should remove the anomaly whereby Northern Ireland citizens — who are of course British subjects — have to follow the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher is rated a 1-3 chance by the bookmakers William Hill to lead the Conservatives into the next general election . |
| 4 | JOHN Major is an even money chance to lead the Conservatives into the next General Election with bookmakers William Hill who are offering odds of 8–11 that he will be out of office by then . |
| 5 | Senior Conservative MPs have already protested about the move and called on the Government to foot the £650m bill or risk losing key marginal seats at the next general election . |
| 6 | Kenneth Baker put the Party faithful under starter 's orders for the next general election ; he told them to get ready for a fight , and then told them why they would win . |
| 7 | Will the Prime Minister take time this week to write to the broadcasting authorities to say that he is willing to take part in a live , televised debate between the party leaders during the next general election campaign ? |
| 8 | The future of British Coal depends on the results of the next general election in a few months ' time , and I do not think that any hon. Member or the Minister would refute that . |
| 9 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 10 | At a minimum , Solidarity is expected to present more than one list to the voters at the next general election — if it has not already formally split by then . |
| 11 | It polled comfortably more than 50% in a number of areas where it will be looking for parliamentary gains at the next general election . |
| 12 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S plans for the NHS could cost the Tories 1.5 million votes at the next general election , Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman , claimed yesterday . |