Example sentences of "party [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1990 the DPP had formed a Taiwan Sovereignty Independent Movement Committee to advocate what the party asserted was Taiwan 's " independent sovereignty " which excluded mainland China . |
| 2 | Between 1929 and the formation of the second National Government after the general election , the Liberal party had been a genuine participant in the political system and the other parties had to consider carefully what its reactions might be . |
| 3 | In 1959 the Conservative Party had been in power for eight years , but ‘ decency ’ appears to have been safe in their hands . |
| 4 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 5 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 6 | Out of 100 Conservative ministers and backbenchers interviewed by the Independent , 77 thought the party had been right to get rid of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 7 | In their view , the old party had been doing well . |
| 8 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 9 | Only that morning the party had been excited over Mr Major 's rediscovered soapbox . |
| 10 | The party had been a crutch for the weak . |
| 11 | Since the 1950s and the failure of the APL to gain a foothold in Belfast , the Nationalist Party had been mainly a rural phenomenon . |
| 12 | The one carrying Bonnington 's party had been damaged by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 13 | Returning from the raid , the three jeeps of the Free French party had been attacked by Stukas . |
| 14 | A cheese and wine party had been held for the voluntary emergency wardens , whose services will be required in the event of prolonged power cuts or other major crises . |
| 15 | THE Brownies ' Hallowe'en party had been a great success Carol had enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 16 | The time could not have been worse , defeat by Peru was bad enough but the entire Scottish party had been invited to a reception with the Minister of Sport Denis Howell , a former referee and a declared opponent of drug abuse in sport . |
| 17 | For many years the Conservative Party had been committed to abandoning domestic rates , a commitment the 1987 Conservative government decided to uphold . |
| 18 | 24 April : The Sun seems to be having second thoughts about Ken Livingstone : ‘ If the Labour Party had been led by John Smith over the last nine years , perhaps it would have been in power today , ’ says an editorial . |
| 19 | College dean Dr Elizabeth Frazer refused to confirm whether a party had been held . |
| 20 | The invitations to the party had been sent out ten days ago . |
| 21 | In the 1921 election a leaflet in support of the candidature of Kerrison argued that the Labour Party had been responsible for implementing the 1918 Act , providing home helps for poor mothers and supplying free milk in necessitous cases . |
| 22 | In particular the Party had been persuaded to drop its earlier insistence on restoring Alsace-Lorraine to France in favour of a plebiscite under League of Nations control . |
| 23 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 24 | The party had been held in nearby Lidget Green to celebrate the christening of Zatun 's three-week-old baby . |
| 25 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |
| 26 | But once the Party had been firmly re-established , their primary attention switched to the disconcerting evidence of a gulf separating Party activists and rank-and-file workers . |
| 27 | The New Party had been funded in January 1931 by a gift of 50,000 from the motor manufacturer William Morris , later Lord Nuffield , and encouraged by defections from the Labour party , including six members of the House of Commons . |
| 28 | As Ho and other communists noted , amongst the European proletariat the issue of colonial emancipation was very much an also-ran in the 1920s ; and even after a bona fide Vietnamese communist party had been formed , it was just as irksome to them to have to accept the tutelage of the French Communist Party . |
| 29 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 30 | Unionists were most distinct from Liberals and from other generations of Conservatives in their age ; the average age was only fifty in 1914 , there were four Unionist MPs under thirty and sixty-two under forty , and half of the party had been under forty when first elected . |