Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] power " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 2 | In 1959 the Conservative Party had been in power for eight years , but ‘ decency ’ appears to have been safe in their hands . |
| 3 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 4 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 5 | Since it had been in power Labour had improved conditions , particularly through provision of milk to mothers and children ( SE 16 October 20 ) . |
| 6 | It was not so much his age , or any loss of physical energy that was the problem , but the fact that he was so domineering , had been in power too long and could upset even his closest colleagues . |
| 7 | The point that we were making in drawing attention to it was that , if the Labour party had been in power , he would not have had the freedom to buy shares in BT . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | The 13 candidates included President Mathieu Kerekou , an avowed Marxist who had been in power since his military coup of 1972 , and his Prime Minister , Nicéphore Soglo , a former World Bank official . |
| 11 | Hoyte himself had come to office in the last elections in December 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , while his People 's National Congress ( PNC ) had been in power since independence in 1966 . |
| 12 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of your countrymen — no , many of the Germans we have talked about — think Hitler would have stepped back if Churchill had been in power . |
| 14 | The " Leftists " , who had been in power since 1928 , made open or implicit recantations of their policies . |