Example sentences of "[art] tory ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still was the Tories ' refusal year after year to make the essential commitment to the productive base of the economy — education and training , research and development , science , transport and communication . |
| 2 | THE NEXT Labour government will abandon the ‘ corrupt priorities ’ of the Tories ' education policies and make Britain the brains of Europe , Jack Straw , the party 's education spokesman said yesterday . |
| 3 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 4 | The maintenance of a firm currency has an important part in the battle against inflation , but if pursued uniquely by means of offering foreign holders of sterling an ever-increasing interest rate premium , the result will be severe damage to the British economy and the Tories ' chances of re-election . |
| 5 | The review will lead to a ‘ green ’ White Paper , planned for publication next summer and likely to provide the kernel of the Tories ' next general election manifesto . |
| 6 | Letter : Bottled water on the Tories ' platform |
| 7 | The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories ' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Rex , of Harwich , raised the Tories ' much-criticised European elections poster whose message read : ‘ Stay at home on June 15 and you 'll live on a diet of Brussels . ’ |
| 9 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 10 | The Tories ' problems are , on paper , worse . |
| 11 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 12 | ( The Tories ' computer has produced a range of later options . |
| 13 | It has taken the Tories ' current enthusiasm for copying Labour policies — and this week 's signal from the Bank of England that it favours a form of credit controls — to start to blur that image . |
| 14 | Law and order should be one of the Tories ' strongest cards , but record crime figures have tarnished their record . |
| 15 | The second part of the plan was to turn to the Tories ' own strong issues for the last 10 days : defence , foreign policy , law and order and — hard though it is in a recession — the economy . |
| 16 | He is blamed for the Tories ' allegedly disastrous campaign . |
| 17 | Much of the Tories ' present difficulty is , in my view , caused by their having spent 16 months being politically correct themselves . |
| 18 | At the other extreme , the NOP poll for the Independent on Sunday — giving Labour a three-point lead and putting the Liberal Democrats on only 17 per cent — would likewise result in a hung parliament , but this time one in which Labour would be the largest party with 317 seats , compared with the Tories ' 296 and the Liberal Democrats ' 14 . |
| 19 | Lowther , who regularly pops up at advertising awards ceremonies and is more at home in the pony-tailed world of agency ‘ creatives ’ than nervy politicians , penned the Tories ' election broadcast on defence . |
| 20 | He says , loyally , that the Tories ' campaign has been ‘ easily as good as Labour 's ’ . |
| 21 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |
| 22 | The final push — intended to win over waverers , particularly those considering voting Liberal Democrat — was given added impetus with the Tories ' final election broadcast last night , stressing Mr Major 's international role . |
| 23 | One of the most striking features of this election is the extent to which — intellectually — it is being fought on the Tories ' terms . |
| 24 | Many of those who have attended the Tories ' daily press conference have effectively written off their chances , at best predicting they will form the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 25 | How much Mr Pringle receives ( tax free ) will doubtless depend on the Tories ' progress through the early hours . |
| 26 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 27 | The latest findings give an indication of how narrow the Tories ' lead has become . |
| 28 | 12.30 am , Battersea : The Tories ' gain in Battersea in 1987 was one of the most surprising of that election . |
| 29 | The sitting MP , Robert Hayward , is the Tories ' leading psephologist . |
| 30 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |