Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] labour " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 20 February , you published my letter , which proposed that Labour and the Liberal Democrats should each withdraw from 50 seats that they had no chance of winning , and encourage their supporters to vote for the other party . |
| 2 | The union supported the idea of a national wage for seafarers , determined by and supervised by a National or London Joint Committee of the parties concerned and corresponding Local Joint Committees but proposed that labour should be supplied by the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union . |
| 3 | Hyndman , now a keen supporter of the war , argued that Labour should be demanding general nationalization of industry in the name both of equality of sacrifice and of war-fighting efficiency . |
| 4 | In particular , Edwardian reformers believed that labour conditions for adolescents were influential on their social behaviour in both the short and the long run , or , put another way , and taking into account the wider implications of ‘ personality ’ , that labour conditions influenced the form of their social being . |
| 5 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 6 | In last Friday 's edition of The Times , the shadow Foreign Secretary stated that Labour would ’ review ’ the ’ role and powers of the European Commission work for conditions to make the single currency possible and attractive ’ . |
| 7 | The Dumbarton MP , John McFall , shadow Scottish home affairs spokesman , accused the Government of failing to carry out its manifesto commitment to change the law and stated that Labour would introduce its own bill if the Government refused to make space for the legislation . |
| 8 | Lukács claimed that labour became the model for any social practice . |
| 9 | Speaking at the Institute of Civil Engineers , the venue for the unveiling of the Shadow Budget at the start of the campaign , Mr Kinnock claimed that Labour would be the most industrially-orientated government Britain had ever seen . |
| 10 | In his letter , Wilson claimed that Labour was ‘ open to new ideas as never before ’ . |
| 11 | That was also the time when the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook claimed that Labour would win by a landslide in the 1987 election . |
| 12 | He claimed that Mr Smith had been forced into supporting public ownership in Scotland to prevent the party splitting over the issue but predicted that Labour would try to dilute its commitment . |
| 13 | But though the intention will be to curb the power of union leaders wielding hundreds of thousands of block votes , Mr Whitty emphasised that Labour would remain a trade union-based party . |
| 14 | Home Office Minister of State Earl Ferrers warned that Labour 's plans would retain the existing appeal right in most cases , under-mining the Bill 's fundamental point — that the resources of the appeals procedure should be concentrated on dealing more speedily with major decisions . |
| 15 | Yet this great growth and the consequent diminution of the size of holdings until a ‘ large ’ farm was two acres , meant that labour was getting less productive — a phenomenon reflected in the huge difference in price between land with and land without vacant possession . |
| 16 | After receiving the news of the defections , which meant that Labour had only 59 assured seats , against Likud 's 60 , Peres managed to secure an adjournment of the Knesset without taking a vote . |
| 17 | of companies in that survey thought that Labour would be bad for the economy . |
| 18 | ‘ In 1991 , I predicted the result of the General Election — everybody thought that Labour would win . |
| 19 | In a Radio 4 interview last month Mr Kaufman said that Labour had ‘ got nothing whatever to do with CND ’ . |
| 20 | The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans . |
| 21 | The pollsters , who said that Labour 's campaign was swinging , then that Parliament would be hanging , but must now be counted among the Do n't Know 's . |
| 22 | They said that Labour was going to win , and wanted it to . |
| 23 | Mr Gould said that Labour must broaden its appeal rather than simply change its leader . |
| 24 | When , as I expect , Neil Kinnock enters 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister after Thursday , is it too much to expect that the knockers and detractors who said that Labour could never be electable under his leadership will eat their words ? |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman said that Labour would need to implement an FGD programme , and asked who would pay for it . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend said that Labour would have signed in full . |
| 27 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) also said that Labour would ’ negotiate for revision ’ of the social protocol . |
| 28 | Launching a document called Green Power , energy spokesman Kevin Barron , said that Labour would change the existing levy on fossil fuels used for other energy sources ( primarily nuclear power ) into a clean energy levy . |
| 29 | When Harold Wilson came to office , one Polaris submarine was cancelled , but the programme continued and Labour sought a consensus with other political parties and played an enormous role in NATO . |
| 30 | But Mr Burke said whilst labour was being induced Mrs Busuttil was given a drug to hasten the process . |