Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the tories " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is blamed for the Tories ' allegedly disastrous campaign . |
| 2 | But over the lifetime of a Parliament the Lib Dem PSBR would fall below the Tories because ours is short term borrowing for investment and not longer term for tax cuts . |
| 3 | In 22 of the 40 seats Labour won from the Tories , the swing in the constituency was higher than the regional average , and there was a significant cluster of above 6 per cent swings . |
| 4 | Mr MacMullen , a lecturer in politics at Durham University , believes Labour will bring its biggest guns to bear on the Tories ' record and the Conservatives may no longer be able to rely on traditional Tory vote winners , like defence , management of the economy and crime . |
| 5 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 6 | Certain of the policies pursued by the Tories during the '50s served to strengthen such stable ‘ non-class ’ social collectivities . |
| 7 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 8 | The problem , according to the Tories , is the unemployed themselves — they have a bad attitude , they lack the skills and drive , they are not prepared to be flexible , they wo n't travel . |
| 9 | Tom , if you 're in charge of that , let's get these delegates on them front pages , we can do without the Tories . |
| 10 | Congress , our laws are weakened at the Tories request , and recent announcements that the public funding of trade union education is to be stopped has even brought a c cry of outrage from the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 11 | Or they could return to election by MPs alone , a system belatedly accepted by the Tories , in place of their former Magic Circle . |
| 12 | The massive increase in the number of GCSE candidates opting to continue in education is being trumpeted by the Tories as a success story . |
| 13 | We can expect being cheated by the Tories , but Mr Quinn can perhaps explain how his party can always find money to pay for perks and excursions to faraway places for councillors and £3.5m expenditure upon the County Hall . |
| 14 | Some scare-mongering tactics have been adopted by the Tories to compel us into participating the emp in employment action . |
| 15 | Has the C2 baseball team in Grasping , Essex , turned against the Tories ? |
| 16 | It became possible to argue that although the GDP had undoubtedly continued to grow under the Tories , and more rapidly than in Britain 's past , the jerky ‘ stop-go ’ process was helping to weaken the relative position of the British economy on the world market , a position which bad become exposed with the dismantling of the imperial trade preferences and the progressive liberalisation of world trade after Bretton Woods . |
| 17 | While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose . |
| 18 | He was accused by the Tories of confusing friendship with a sexual relationship , which he strongly denied . |
| 19 | Labour is outstripped by the Tories ' 61 women councillors out of 257 ( 24 per cent ) and the Liberal Democrats ' 39 out of 137 ( 28 per cent ) . |
| 20 | That 's just a label used by the Tories . ’ |
| 21 | Medina 's evidence was used by the Tories to bring about Marlborough 's downfall . |
| 22 | That more than trebled under the Tories to £285 a week , or £14,800 per annum . |
| 23 | Rates in Gloucester were due to fall under the Tories . |
| 24 | So far no party has really impressed Jim but he will vote for the Tories on April 9 , more to keep Labour out than the Conservatives in . |
| 25 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 26 | Tactical voting to get rid of the Tories . ’ |
| 27 | One , a centre-spread from NSS , read : ‘ Liberal Democrat supporter voting Labour in this constituency : Tactical voting for electoral reform and to get rid of the Tories . ’ |
| 28 | He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And other Cabinet ministers are lined up to pledge their full loyalty to Mr Major , and plead with the Tories to pull together . |