Example sentences of "party [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) .
2 As for the Radicals , during 1935 the party began to break up under the strains of the relationship with the CEDA and a succession of financial scandals .
3 Stirling 's party decided to lie up for the day and , leaving the road , headed into some low hills covered with scrubby bushes .
4 The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long .
5 Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class .
6 And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black .
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