Example sentences of "[was/were] party [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1969 , Polanski and Nicholson were party acquaintances , friends of friends who shared common interests ; it was Polanski who claims to have introduced Nicholson to one of his passions , skiing . |
| 2 | Mr Silviu Brucan , a leading member of the front , was reported as saying yesterday that the Communist Party was now finished and had played no part in the revolution — despite increasing complaints , particularly from students at the centre of the uprising , that most of those moving into power were party members . |
| 3 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 4 | The Cultural Revolution could in fact be defined as a process by which ‘ a highly mobilized population should permanently transform its society , led by the ‘ reds ’ , no matter whether they were Party members or not ’ ( Krug 1981 , p. 72 ) . |
| 5 | Tom Bell wrote that " its leading comrades were Party members and worked in the closest collaboration with the Party Central Committee . |
| 6 | By the end of 1922 the size of the guberniia Party organization totalled 5,925,9 compared with , for instance , 3,286 local officials of the Commissariat for agriculture , most of whom were not Party members , but who , by the very nature of their work as surveyors , land-reclaimers , timber and livestock experts , were scattered more widely round the rural areas than were Party workers . |
| 7 | About half the electorate were party supporters in 1986 , and half uncommitted , by this definition . |
| 8 | To go out on the knocker was party activists ' jargon for canvassing , a thankless task usually carried out at night with the aid of a failing torch and a broken pencil . |