Example sentences of "[adj] party was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at that time the Scottish National Party was the only other party in Scotland advocating what we were advocating ( though obviously going much further ) and it seemed to me crazy to be competing with them for devolutionary votes . |
| 2 | Watkins comes to a similar conclusion , although he argues that the Labour Party 's hostility to working with the Communist Party was the reason for its failure to force the National government to abandon its non-intervention policy . |
| 3 | Until recently the Communist Party was the decisive body . |
| 4 | The Conservative Party was the only other major political party to do well out of the inter-war years . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1930s the Conservative Party was the great beneficiary of the popular support for the National governments which were formed . |
| 6 | As already indicated , the Conservative party was the dominant member of all three National governments which operated from August 1931 until the Second World War . |
| 7 | And then there was the one that never got published , back in the days when the Labour Party was the people 's party and affairs were run by the National Executive Committee , which was run by the trade unions . |
| 8 | Such an ideal , shorn here of a class dimension , resonated with the belief of a majority of the working-class voters in West Ham after the war that the Labour Party was the only party able to represent their interests , overcome their frustrations and grievances , and provide the means through which their hopes could be realised . |