Example sentences of "[adj] for the tories " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel sorry for the Tories , they will only be able to go for a cruise around the world once instead of two or three times a year . |
| 2 | In the Easington constituency in 1987 the taciturn W.J.Perry ( who fights again ) polled 7,757 for the Tories , just 16.3pc of the vote . |
| 3 | Conal Gregory , defending a majority of 147 for the Tories , is 9/4 . |
| 4 | It looks like Labour and the Liberal Democrats are set to join forces , adding to the agony for Alan Winmill , who left Labour for the Tories last year . |
| 5 | One campaigner commented : ‘ Labour are making it easier for the Tories to shift the debate before the next election . ’ |
| 6 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : The concurrence of atoms Andrew Roberts looks at the history of political pacts in Britain and finds them disliked , short-lived — and heartening for the Tories |
| 7 | In the real world , these results are neither as good for the Tories nor as bad for Labour as the polls and media predictions have made them seem . |
| 8 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 9 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 10 | Mori for the Times put Labour one point ahead on 39 per cent , with 38 for the Tories and 20 for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 11 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 12 | The first is that it will be harder for the Tories to portray Labour as a party gripped by extremism . |
| 13 | The conference which begins today is one of the most difficult for the Tories since Mrs Thatcher came to power . |
| 14 | All this makes it difficult for the Tories to mount a convincing assault on Labour 's drastic plans for Politically Correct social engineering . |
| 15 | The claim came from Michael Fallon who is defending the key marginal for the Tories . |
| 16 | Every time a seat was lost by one of the three leading political parties off would come a rosette : blue for the Tories , red for Labour and yellow for the Liberals , as they then were . |