Example sentences of "conservative [noun] at the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macmillan worked on the American fear that a crisis in Anglo-American relations might contribute to a Conservative defeat at the next election . |
| 2 | The possibility of a Conservative defeat at the next election promotion investors to unload shares . |
| 3 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister 's supporters were immediately thrown onto the defensive since most Conservative MPs saw the tax as the single biggest obstacle to a Conservative victory at the next election . |
| 5 | It had been hoped that an emphatic victory in New South Wales would lay the groundwork for a conservative victory at the next federal election , due by March 1993 . |