Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] party 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | NOTHING in Neil Kinnock 's eight and half years as Labour leader so became the man as his dignified acceptance of his party 's calamitous general election defeat . |
| 32 | He did not reiterate Mr Major 's claim that Nissan came to the region because of his party 's policies , but preferred to point out it would not have done if there had been a Labour Government in situ . |
| 33 | Lord of our party 's battle-line , |
| 34 | Liberal Democrat strategists predicted that such a swing would deliver into their party 's hands up to seven Tory seats in the area , including Bath , the constituency held by Mr Patten , Conservative Party chairman . |
| 35 | Both rose via their party 's brutish faction — in Disraeli 's case , the landowners ; in Mr Kinnock 's , the Left . |
| 36 | On such issues as public ownership , legal curbs on the trade unions , defence , council house sales , and restricting the range of welfare benefits , a majority of Labour voters disagreed with their party 's policies . |
| 37 | Mr Major won a decisive Commons majority for the ratification Bill , despite another Tory rebellion in the year-long battle with his party 's Euro-sceptics to steer the measure through to law . |
| 38 | Meanwhile Dick Douglas , MP for Dunfermline West ( Scotland ) , resigned the Labour whip in the House of Commons on March 14 in disagreement with his party 's refusal to support a campaign of non-payment of the poll tax . |
| 39 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn said the poll was in line with his party 's own canvassing returns . |
| 40 | Mr Ashdown will give warning tomorrow , in two television interviews and in his party 's last election broadcast , that an attempt by either Labour or Tories to go it alone in a hung Parliament would end in disaster . |
| 41 | He acknowledged that the delay in his party 's response was due to internal disagreements ; the party executive was believed to have voted for a boycott of the referendum , but was reportedly overruled by a parliamentary caucus meeting . |
| 42 | Labour Coun John Williams , leader of the council , believes the pedestrian plan was a key issue in his party 's success in last year 's local elections . |
| 43 | It used to be the case that a successful president would choose some of his Cabinet members from his party 's ranks in Congress ; this still happens , but relatively infrequently . |
| 44 | Fresh from his party 's success in the March 1992 general election [ see pp. 38798-99 ] , Chung accelerated his national pro-business campaign . |
| 45 | List MdBs must emulate them if they wish to safeguard their place on their party 's list or hope to win a constituency seat at the next election . |
| 46 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 47 | DUBBED ‘ The Beast of Bolsover ’ , the member for a gritty coalfield constituency is a constant irritant to his party 's front bench , frequently voting according to leftist principles rather than the party line . |
| 48 | I want to put to the hon. Member for Sedgefield some important and fundamental questions relating to his party 's attitude to training and I hope that he will do the House the honour of answering them . |
| 49 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 50 | Elsewhere in the city there were ugly incidents : NSF opponents were beaten up ; the National Peasants ' Party leader , Corneliu Coposa , had to be evacuated by armoured car after a crowd laid siege to his party 's headquarters ; and Liberal Party officials fled as their headquarters was stormed and ransacked . |
| 51 | Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal Democrat leader , repeatedly linked any co-operation to his party 's demand for the introduction of some form of proportional representation in future parliamentary elections . |
| 52 | If Mr Takeshita ditches his predecessor he can say goodbye to his party 's fragile unity , which , until now , has been the main basis of his own power . |
| 53 | The Tory , North Yorkshire farmer , Mr Nick Jopling , added nearly 700 to his party 's vote . |
| 54 | As to his party 's plans for investment , Mr Lilley preferred to say what would not happen under Labour . |
| 55 | Mr Gonzalez has also been striving to put some shine on his party 's tarnished image with a blend of promises and apologies . |
| 56 | The DUP 's Gregory Campbell refused to be drawn on his party 's attitude to the issue . |
| 57 | The school , which has taken part in the festival since 1968 , was conducted by Mr Kinnock when he visited in March on his party 's election trail . |
| 58 | Is he going to power them on his party 's hot air ? |
| 59 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 60 | I asked him about his party 's environmental charter but he seemed to have no answer . ’ |