Example sentences of "[art] [adj] party [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The advance party has now returned to base camp to spend a few days feeding up on military rations of sausage and beans and chocolate and pear ready for the final push .
2 The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service .
3 The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism .
4 The political parties have also turned their attentions to citizenship and the community .
5 At a time when the political parties have all released bulky documents stuffed full of environmentally-friendly policies , when any washing powder that ca n't say it 's CFC-free and untested on animals and made from biodegradable phosphates is likely to be left on the supermarket shelf , golf 's ‘ green ’ credentials seem pretty strong .
6 While similar region versus district confrontations elsewhere in Scotland are deliberately being kept low-key , particularly in Labour-dominated areas , there are signs of open warfare in Highland , where the political parties have only limited influence .
7 Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both , to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice .
8 The operational objectives of each agency have to be properly understood by the professional parties involved so that areas of conflict and compromise in practice can be identified and service provision improved .
9 But the working party goes further : ‘ By examining some examples of typical assignments set in the classroom , approached through the eyes of the pupils , we discover a series of stages that have to be worked through …
10 Bethel explained that the Working Party had not felt that the Council would be prepared to support such radical views , and other Council members supported the report .
11 Opposition councillors supported the so-called Option 3 which earmarked Finchlea and Oakfield for closure as presently constituted but left the door open for the working party to propose further use in the search for improved service for post-19 year olds .
12 In its Report , presented in 1977 to Parliament , the working party set up by the Labour Government to develop further the idea of a Co-operative Development Agency , and broadly representative of the whole of the Co-operative Movement , declared of the three attempted rescues :
13 But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) .
14 I mean we 've er the working party 's actually been around the country looking at various other swimming pools in the areas and er just to get an idea on what we thought Didcot would really like .
15 Editor , — The working party set up to make recommendations on a national standard of entry into general practice seems to have been unaware of European Community directive 86/457/EEC .
16 In the same speech to Parliament de Klerk criticized the ANC for delaying disclosure of its reaction to the report of the working party set up after the government-ANC talks at Cape Town in May [ see pp. 37440-41 ] , which attempted among other things to define a political prisoner .
17 In government both the Conservatives and the Labour party followed vigorously orthodox economic policies .
18 Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ?
19 Although defeated by 144 votes to 183 Cullen nevertheless gained more support than Dollan of Govan , whose resolution for a return of the ILP to its propagandist role within the Labour Party received only 93 votes .
20 At the other extreme , many historians believe that the Labour Party had simply inherited working-class support from the Liberals owing to the fact that trade unions had changed their allegiance when it became obvious that only an independent Labour Party would act in their interests .
21 In another sense the domination of the Labour Party had also been achieved at the expense of other claimants to the leadership of the socialist movement and the working class .
22 The Labour Party had traditionally concentrated on " gas and water " socialism , but it could not avoid the revision of its foreign policy which events made necessary .
23 The central theme of the dispute was that the Labour Party had neither the following nor the enthusiasm to oppose the National Government in isolation .
24 If the Unity Campaign was to have any effect its links with the Labour Party had constantly to be underlined .
25 The Labour Party had now lost two of its most distinguished " intellectuals " , two of its most active Members of Parliament and two prospective candidates , in an effort to suppress the idea of an electoral alliance before the General Election .
26 At what point did the Labour Party take over from the Liberal Party as the second party of government ?
27 It was not long before the dynamics of politics made such niceties quite irrelevant , The bulk of the Labour party came out in opposition , not only to the National Government , but to any economies , even those which the Labour Cabinet had agreed .
28 It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend .
29 LOCAL education authorities want to spend more than £1 billion on school repairs next year , three times the amount allocated for this year , the Labour Party said yesterday .
30 The Labour party 's amendment shows that it is still wedded to clause 4 and to renationalisation , despite the fact that the leader of the Labour party said recently : ’ We must learn to run capitalism better than the Conservatives . ’
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