Example sentences of "party [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
| 2 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 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 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 . |
| 5 | Magherafelt , where no party had been in control , passed into nationalist hands , while the reverse was true in Moyle . |