Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to labour [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there seems to have been a major but largely unmeasured swing to Labour during the war , the pre-war electoral situation revealed no great reaction against the National government . |
| 2 | Former Tory MP Ian Grist , who lost his Cardiff Central seat to Labour in April , was later made the £19,000-a-year chairman of the South Glamorgan Health Authority . |
| 3 | Opinion on the exchanges was divided about the likely reaction to Labour as the party with the most seats but no overall majority . |
| 4 | But , even after this year 's advances , it would still require the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 to achieve it : the odds remain stacked heavily against it happening . |
| 5 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |