Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] polls " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already showing strength in the exit polls , and may now be boosted by a sympathy vote . |
| 2 | MARIO VARGAS LLOSA , the novelist , was comfortably ahead in the opinion polls as the deadline for the registration of candidates in the Peruvian presidential elections passed yesterday . |
| 3 | Mr Baker made it clear that the leadership was determined to use the conference — under the slogan ‘ The right team for Britain 's future ’ — to lift the flagging morale of supporters and raise the party in the opinion polls . |
| 4 | We are behind in the opinion polls . |
| 5 | Brazil 's latest political phenomenon , Fernando Collor de Mello , the governor of Alagoas state and a defector from the ruling PMDB , who founded his own party last year , astonished Brazil 's political class by taking a dramatic early lead in the opinion polls . |
| 6 | It was a characteristically defiant performance coming from the leader of a party trailing 8-10 points in the opinion polls , her own satisfaction ratings slumped beaneth her opponent 's , and after a week which had rocked the credibility of her government 's economic policy , on which all else depends . |
| 7 | In the first week of the campaign only 44 per cent of the public felt Labour was a clear second in the opinion polls and as many as 19 per cent said the Alliance was running second . |
| 8 | A year before their landslide victory in the election of June 1987 the Conservatives lagged behind Labour in the opinion polls . |
| 9 | A year before their re-election victory the Conservatives lagged behind Labour in the opinion polls . |
| 10 | Indeed one characteristic of British democracy is that the country is normally ruled by the party that lies second or third in the opinion polls ( if we take averages over all months since polls began , giving each month equal weight ) . |
| 11 | After lagging as much as 15 per cent behind the Tories in the opinion polls in 1977 , Labour was actually level with them in July 1978 and threatening to pull ahead . |
| 12 | Even in Scotland , the huge majorities in favour of devolution once recorded steadily diminished in the opinion polls in 1978 as the Scottish economy appeared to recover and Labour regained much of the ground lost to the Nationalists . |
| 13 | In the summer and autumn of 1989 , Labour led strongly in the opinion polls again . |
| 14 | Bush had every reason to expect an easy victory , the ultimate Christmas gift to an adoring American public , who have granted him a record approval rating in the opinion polls . |
| 15 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 16 | The Labour party 's lead in the opinion polls has shot above 20 points . |
| 17 | Like Britain 's Tory Party before Mrs Thatcher fell , the Labor Party is way down in the opinion polls . |
| 18 | It lopped points off the government 's rating in the opinion polls . |
| 19 | However , they were preoccupied with their own internal squabbles and Michael Foot was scoring low personal ratings in the opinion polls . |
| 20 | Richard Ryder , the chief whip , had brought along ministerial colleagues and , through 10 weeks of appalling economic news , the Tory Party had kept up with Labour in the opinion polls . |
| 21 | The Liberal Democrat leader said the result had to be judged in the context of the party 's six per cent standing in the opinion polls two years ago , following the Liberal/SDP merger . |
| 22 | The Liberal Democrat leader said the result had to be judged in the context of the party 's six per cent standing in the opinion polls two years ago , following the Liberal/SDP merger . |
| 23 | With the party buoyant in the opinion polls , and taking full benefit from government discomfiture over the poll tax , Labour increased its share of the vote to almost 55% . |
| 24 | Threats by the Labour party to renationalise privatised firms or to introduce ‘ social ownership ’ dented the share prices of privatised companies , whenever the Labour party appeared to be doing well in the opinion polls prior to the 1987 election . |
| 25 | Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened . |
| 26 | The LDP 's unending grip on power seemed threatened by a collapse in the opinion polls . |
| 27 | Even after 11 years in office and in mid-recession , they are neck-and-neck with the conservatives in the opinion polls . |
| 28 | It shows in the opinion polls ' evidence of the Greeks ' growing reluctance to commit their votes to any of the present parties . |
| 29 | The two breakaway parties did not affect the result decisively , as most of the " do n't knows " in the opinion polls came down in favour of the Democrats . |
| 30 | He feared what the results might have been from the local elections and he 's , he 's an example in fact of a prime minister who went into the elections trailing in the opinion polls . |