Below you will find example sentences with "independence referendum". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Independence Referendum in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: referendum
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "independence referendum" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as the 2014 independence referendum, 2014 scottish independence referendum, 2014, government and sturgeon stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with independence day, independence party, scottish independence and parliament referendum, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with independence referendum
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Curtice said the result was the kind achieved by Labour before the 2014 independence referendum. (15 words)
Such an order was used to allow Hoylrood to stage the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. (15 words)
He said under his plan a new independence referendum could be held in 2027 or 2028. (16 words)
On independence, Ms Forbes wants the estimated 104,000 SNP members who have a vote in the leadership contest to be closely involved in developing an alternative to another independence referendum if the UK government continues to block a second vote. (41 words)
When the ferries contract was awarded in 2015, the yard was owned by Jim McColl, a successful businessman who had rescued it from administration just weeks ahead of the previous year's Scottish independence referendum. (35 words)
Conservative activist Shane Painter, who, at 21, was one of the youngest parliamentary candidates last July, said: “The independence referendum sparked my interest in politics — something that would never have happened without Alex Salmond. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Podemos opposed a unilateral referendum on secession, but said it would in principle have supported an independence referendum agreed between the Spanish and Catalan governments.
On independence, Ms Forbes wants the estimated 104,000 SNP members who have a vote in the leadership contest to be closely involved in developing an alternative to another independence referendum if the UK government continues to block a second vote.
Curtice said the result was the kind achieved by Labour before the 2014 independence referendum.
He said under his plan a new independence referendum could be held in 2027 or 2028.
In 2017, a former PP government ordered hundreds of police to stop a Catalan independence referendum which resulted in clashes between riot officers and voters.
Judges there dealt a huge blow to Ms Sturgeon at the end of last year when it ruled she could not hold another independence referendum without Westminster's permission.
Last year the UK Supreme Court ruled that Holyrood did not have the power to stage another independence referendum - a move which has been blocked by the UK government.
Looking back, I was naive to think that the divisions created by the 2014 Scottish independence referendum had been repaired.
Ms Sturgeon rose to power unopposed after the independence referendum in 2014, in which the electorate vote to remain in the UK.
Since succeeding Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader in March, Mr Yousaf has told party members that securing an agreement with Westminster for another independence referendum remains the party's 'Plan A'.
Sturgeon said she believes Scotland will become independent and accused the government of “democracy denial” for repeatedly ruling out a second independence referendum.
When the ferries contract was awarded in 2015, the yard was owned by Jim McColl, a successful businessman who had rescued it from administration just weeks ahead of the previous year's Scottish independence referendum.
Bougainville first called for an independence referendum or to be incorporated into the Solomon Islands in 1968, when Papua New Guinea was controlled by Australia.
Campaigners in Wales want parity with Scotland, which has controlled its Crown Estate assets since 2016 following the 2014 independence referendum.
Conservative activist Shane Painter, who, at 21, was one of the youngest parliamentary candidates last July, said: “The independence referendum sparked my interest in politics — something that would never have happened without Alex Salmond.
However Mr Macron insisted that the result of the last independence referendum, in which residents voted to remain part of France, could not be called into question.
Such an order was used to allow Hoylrood to stage the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
The MP played a prominent role during the independence referendum and was a familiar face in the media.
There’s frustration and disillusion with Westminster politics and the way to end it in Scotland would be through simple democracy – give the Scottish Parliament the power to hold an independence referendum.
A majority of Scots say there should be an independence referendum in the next five years, polling evidence has found.