Example sentences of "conservatives [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 2 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 3 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 4 | During the period in which the Conservatives have been in power it was said , first , that we needed only one terminal , Waterloo . |
| 5 | The Conservatives have been in control of Hereford and Worcester through the chairman 's casting vote . |
| 6 | ‘ Tory Party smoke screens a week before the General Election can not obscure the fact that crime has increased while the Conservatives have been in power . ’ |