Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the tories " in BNC.
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| 1 | That decision was passed unanimously and if it is good enough for us it should be good enough for the Tories . |
| 2 | Labour , he said , would fight for more cash to run social services , not just lie down like the Tories and accept what they were given . |
| 3 | After a string of by-elections in which the Liberals had done badly — they always do better under the Tories , especially in the South — and in the wake of the Thorpe affair , the Liberals desperately needed respectability . |
| 4 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 5 | The poll tax is quite rightly played down by the Tories , but what has this debacle cost the nation ? |
| 6 | The repeal of these measures was opposed not only by the Tories , however , but also by moderate and staunchly Anglican Whigs such as Lord Devonshire . |
| 7 | Shifting to a patient-driven health system was never going to be easy — especially not for the Tories . |
| 8 | A modest swing away from the Tories could see them lose ooutright controll . |
| 9 | Labour supporters must be in despair at not being able to race away from the Tories in the run up to the election . |
| 10 | Whether Michael Fallon 's personal popularity among voters is enough to sway what is becoming a national swing away from the Tories remains to be seen . |
| 11 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 12 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 13 | Other evidence , such as the demonstrations in favour of Sacheverell in 1710 , or in favour of peace in 1713 , seems to reinforce the view that by the end of Anne 's reign public opinion was overwhelmingly behind the Tories . |
| 14 | proposed erm and that point the Liberal Democrats went off with the Tories . |
| 15 | The prediction changes rapidly from the Tories being short of a majority by three seats to a majority of three seats . |
| 16 | Throughout the first age of party , Nonconformists ( together with those sympathetic to Dissent ) tended to identify strongly with the Whigs , whilst High Anglicans identified overwhelmingly with the Tories . |
| 17 | With the results showing Labour ten points up on the Tories , he is statistically right . |
| 18 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 19 | It was now for the Tories to try to form a Government . |
| 20 | The Sun switched back to the Tories in 1979 , and the circulation gap doubled . |
| 21 | As the date of the General Election approaches , we look back at the Tories ' record on housing and mortgage rates . |
| 22 | But the interesting bit here for the Tories was that in 1916 a Welshman became Prime Minister . |
| 23 | Although Anne 's sympathies lay strongly with the Tories , she too was determined to maintain the political independence of the Crown . |
| 24 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 25 | Even by the Tories own , this pay policy will remove some one point five billion pounds from the pay packets of over eight point six million public sector workers . |
| 26 | They who have kept the membership going under the Tory regime and they that have suffered the effects of recession and job , job losses and brought , brought about by the Tories . |
| 27 | Last night Schools Minister Michael Fallon , standing again for the Tories in Darlington , warned that meddling with the CTCs would be ‘ a disaster . ’ |
| 28 | James Naughtie 's North British voice , heavy with East of Scotland rectitude — a characteristic he shared with both John Smith and Gordon Brown — warned his listeners that the road ahead for the Tories was a rocky one . |
| 29 | Although this is claimed to be standard practice , Labour denounced the move last night as ‘ the most serious breach yet of the Tories ’ general election promises ’ . |
| 30 | Labour had actually moved ahead of the Tories in some polls at the start of August 1978 . |