Example sentences of "[noun] come to power [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More reassuring in terms of Soviet policy was Gorbachev 's dramatic decision to allow a non-Communist premier to come to power in Poland . |
| 2 | On the other hand Labour came to power in London in 1934 , re-elected in 1937 . |
| 3 | When President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in early 1985 , Mr Husak became one of the disoriented old men of Eastern Europe , and when Mr Gorbachev reached Prague , in the spring of 1987 , Mr Husak looked out of his depth . |
| 4 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 5 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 6 | Mr Singh came to power in last year 's farcical assembly election by getting the support of no more than 9% of registered voters . |
| 7 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the regime of President Milton Obote , and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 8 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the Obote regime and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 9 | On April 11 the motion , the 11th since Rocard came to power in 1988 , was defeated 289-261 after failing to win the support of the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 10 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 11 | Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all . |
| 12 | Contrary to Labour 's claims , the report said the proportion of national income spent on education is almost the same now ( 5.1 per cent ) as it was when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 ( 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 13 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 14 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 there were 1,087,000 jobless . |
| 15 | The increase is the 15th since the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , when the charge for a prescription was just 20p per item . |
| 16 | Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form . |
| 17 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 18 | New figures show the burglary rate in the region has risen five-fold in some areas since the Conservatives came to power in nineteen seventy nine . |
| 19 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza came to power in a coup in 1976 , and introduced a civilian Constitution ( 1981 ) under which single party elections were held in 1982 , the sole legal party being the Union pour le progrès national ( UPRONA ) . |
| 20 | Thoughtful and trenchant , his prolix arguments could often be tiresome , although Thomas Babington Macaulay , first Baron Macaulay [ q.v. ] , thought his attack on the National Board system , in the first debate on the issue when Sir Robert Peel came to power in 1841 , led to ‘ the very best parliamentary set-to between the secretary and the solicitor-general for Ireland which has ever been witnessed ’ . |
| 21 | The new Turkish Government of Suleyman Demirel came to power in October 1991 on a platform which pledged to prevent torture in custody . |
| 22 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 23 | Cardinal Roger Etchegaray is the highest Vatican official to go to China since the communists came to power in 1949 . |
| 24 | The only expatriate survivor from the old days was Sophie , a Pole whose family had lost all their property when the Communists came to power after the Second World War . |
| 25 | Mobutu Sese Seko came to power in a coup in 1965 , was elected President ( unopposed ) in 1970 , and was re-elected in 1977 and 1984 . |
| 26 | Except where the controlling group comes to power with a programme worked out in detail , the relationship between professional expertise and political organisation will ensure that much of the business of the authority will be generated by officers ’ . |
| 27 | When the nationalists came to power in 1939 , union organization in RENFE was systematically destroyed and republican supporters among the workforce were purged . |
| 28 | The House of Hapsburg came to power in 1273 , and soon afterwards Gothic architecture made its appearance . |
| 29 | Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes . |
| 30 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |