Example sentences of "party [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning was drizzling , damp and miserable and our man and his party were not at breakfast . |
| 2 | And the Shelley party were near at hand — though the fluctuations of the time scale made it hard to determine whether they would recognize my name if they heard it . |
| 3 | The Sergeant and Corporal leading our bit of the search party were out of earshot . |
| 4 | Though the history and sentiments of the Labour Party were totally against " Lib-Lab " candidates , it was not long before the idea of formal electoral alliances was being canvassed . |
| 5 | Many analysts agreed however , that opposing wings of the party were now in practice , if not in name , social democratic in their political outlook . |
| 6 | A large number of those jobs would be destroyed if the Labour party were ever in a position to put its policies into practice . |
| 7 | I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly . |
| 8 | In many respects the whole General Strike could be seen as an inevitable development which served notice to government , employers and trade unions that each party was not to be taken lightly . |
| 9 | Elekes claimed that the party was not against Jews as such , but " the neo-Zionists , the international criminals , who commit their crimes taking cover behind the Jews " . |
| 10 | For the Liberals Mr Peter Bergg said his party was not against council houses being sold off as long as new ones were built . |
| 11 | The Parliamentary Party was not in fact electing a prime minister ; it was electing a new party leader . |
| 12 | And as the Conservative Party was already on its third leader within thirteen months , this did not begin to be likely . |
| 13 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 14 | The party was already in progress when the riot took place . |
| 15 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . |
| 16 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 17 | Something stronger than party was clearly at work . |
| 18 | Tory aristocrats , Liberals and Fabians all saw in Law 's election the triumph of this " new mercantile Conservatism " and the final triumph of tariff reform ; the party was now in the hands of hard-faced businessmen , and all sorts of undesirable results would inevitably follow . |
| 19 | The prosecution under the Official Secrets Act was launched on 12 January 1971 ( the Conservative Party was then in power and had inherited this state prosecution from its Labour predecessors ) and lasted three and a half weeks . |
| 20 | The intention to do so must therefore be made perfectly clear , for otherwise the court will consider that the exempted party was only to be free from liability in respect of damage occasioned by causes other than the negligence for which he is answerable . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the main search party was still at Cushendall , searching each house and property . |
| 22 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |