Example sentences of "party was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the smaller parties , the Workers ' Party was the most decisive in favouring the change . |
| 2 | According to the Liberal-Irish alliance , the Irish party was supposed to abstain from the 1901 Conservative bill , aimed at bringing denominational schools in England and Wales into the national education system while at the same time absenting them from local government control : that is , giving finance while maintaining the system of denominational clerical control . |
| 3 | Eventually the Irish party was forced to return to Westminster to see to it that the appropriate denominational interests in England were strengthened and to show the Irish political leadership 's compliance with the similarly organized Irish system ( Miller 1973 : 77–85 ) . |
| 4 | Sergeant Collier — the prisoners may refresh themselves. , The party was drawing up with a jingle and a grinding of hooves on a cobbled forecourt . |
| 5 | Roger , who was always in charge of the music , bad decided the party was ready for nostalgia — the 60s by the sound of it — someone , Maggie could n't remember who , was singing a song called ‘ Hats off to Larry ’ . |
| 6 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 7 | This was his way of declaring that the battle for the Labour Party was won and the Battle for Britain about to commence . |
| 8 | He replied , ‘ the unity of the masses with the party was never so strong as now . |
| 9 | He dismissed reports that his party was divided over tactics and personalities . |
| 10 | ‘ The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party was a prestigious party that was popular and they have let its prestige be ruined . ’ |
| 11 | NEIL KINNOCK yesterday hailed the Labour conference as a celebration of party unity and a demonstration to the electorate that the party was fit to govern Britain . |
| 12 | The party was ‘ not only telling itself , but exuding to the British public the feeling that we are fit to serve our country ’ , he said . |
| 13 | A PROFOUND shift away from the Tory Party among women voters was taking place , but many women still believed the Labour Party was too male-dominated , Clare Short warned the conference yesterday . |
| 14 | However , the chairman of the Labour Party was somehow managing to keep his spirits up . |
| 15 | Mr Blunkett said the party was refining an alternative which would be fair between people and between areas . |
| 16 | Peter Purton , an executive member of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights , said the party was losing lesbian and gay votes ‘ in droves ’ . |
| 17 | Although suggestions of a Labour government are premature with an election possibly two years off , Kenneth Baker , Conservative Party chairman , yesterday accepted his party was in some difficulties . |
| 18 | Yesterday the formation of an East German Social Democrat party was announced . |
| 19 | Congress delegates waited in vain for the congratulatory telegram from Moscow when the new party was formed . |
| 20 | He once said the Tory party was like a bird — with a left wing , a right wing , and its brains in the middle . |
| 21 | This results from the strategy adopted by Mr Papandreou , whose eight years in office ended when his socialist Pasok party was defeated in an inconclusive election last June . |
| 22 | And according to next week 's edition of International Financing Review , a high powered scouting party was dispatched under the command of Willard Butcher , the chairman . |
| 23 | Alas , on boarding the Docklands Light Railway the party was confronted by an inspector only to find that they had purchased childrens ' tickets by mistake . |
| 24 | Mr Le Pen said his 17-member party was being persecuted and unjustly accused of racism and fascism . |
| 25 | In retrospect , Labour 's leadership team miscalculated : they could have wrung more from a week when the party was so eagerly compliant . |
| 26 | The number of voters who felt the Conservative Party was stressing defence as its main theme rose from 3 per cent in the first week to 39 per cent in the third and 46 per cent by the end of the campaign . |
| 27 | At all times , almost everyone who had seen a poll noticed that the Conservatives were top , but perceptions of which party was in second place varied sharply . |
| 28 | The Bolshevik Party was therefore especially eager to win over minds by means of cultural and ideological propaganda and education . |
| 29 | It comes as no surprise to discover from another source that in 1921 the Kursk guberniia party committee had tried to deal with these problems ; ‘ the purge of the party was the first basic step towards the strengthening of the personnel of the party and yielded enormous results . ’ |
| 30 | From 1923 onwards the party was to single out key categories of the rural population for education : these included ex-Red Army men , Komsomol members , and women deputies to the local Soviets . |