Example sentences of "which [verb] be [prep] power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kidnap poses a severe test for the infant government of the Prime Minister , Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh , which has been in power only nine days . |
| 2 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 3 | The Antiguan Labour Party , which has been in power since 1976 , won 15 of the 17 seats in the lower chamber in the general election of 1989 . |
| 4 | At the last general election in January 1987 the coalition comprising the Christian Democratic Union ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) , the Christian Social Union ( Christlich-Soziale Union — CSU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which had been in power since October 1982 , was returned to power with a reduced majority [ see pp. 35014-15 ] . |
| 5 | In the September 1989 general election the People 's United Party ( PUP ) which had been in power from the granting of internal self-government in 1964 until the 1984 general election , narrowly defeated the incumbent United Democratic Party ( UDP ) [ see pp. 36890-91 ] . |