Below you will find example sentences with "soft brexit". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Soft Brexit in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: brexit
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "soft brexit" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as for a soft brexit, a hard soft brexit could also, may, party and hard stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with brexit party, brexit deal, soft skills, brexit party, brexit deal and deal brexit, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with soft brexit
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Dominic Grieve … flying the flag for a soft Brexit. (9 words)
Letts, a leave supporter, has previously described a soft Brexit as “baloney”. (12 words)
What is soft Brexit and how is it different to a hard Brexit? (13 words)
But just 37 Tory MPs - including nine ministers - voted for Tory MP Ken Clarke’s plan, showing the party was in no mood for compromise and that Mrs May would be forced to rely on Labour votes to get a soft Brexit through. (43 words)
Several senior Conservative MPs have suggested they could form a breakaway party if May opted to support a customs union – one of Labour’s central demands, which is also backed by Tory supporters of a Norway-style soft Brexit. (39 words)
I can’t argue with that thesis, but should even a tiny glimmer of a soft Brexit emerge, the short squeeze on Sterling could be a mightily impressive one, setting of 2019’s most significant whipsaw price action. (38 words)
Are we seeing signals out of Brussels and London that we may be moving from Hard Brexit or Soft Brexit or No Deal Brexit to… No Brexit at all? (29 words)
What is soft Brexit and how is it different to a hard Brexit? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Are we seeing signals out of Brussels and London that we may be moving from Hard Brexit or Soft Brexit or No Deal Brexit to… No Brexit at all?
Obviously, pro-Brexit lawmakers would vote against it, but so would many anti-Brexit ones who fear that a second victory for the “leave” side would shatter their hopes for a soft Brexit.
Remainers were defeated in the vote, but established a new political movement to campaign first for a soft Brexit and then for a second referendum they hoped would cancel Brexit altogether.
At the same time, those Tories who want a soft Brexit are furious that the government accepted the Brexit ultras’ amendments on Monday.
They fear the UK is being hoodwinked into a Brexit-in-name-only by threats of breaking up the UK through saying that only a soft Brexit can keep the Northern Irish border without physical infrastructure.
What is soft Brexit and how is it different to a hard Brexit?
Yesterday party moderates launched a new campaign to hold a vote over the party’s Brexit position at its autumn conference, in an attempt to shift it towards a soft Brexit.
A hard/soft Brexit could also mean stronger ties between India and the EU.
But just 37 Tory MPs - including nine ministers - voted for Tory MP Ken Clarke’s plan, showing the party was in no mood for compromise and that Mrs May would be forced to rely on Labour votes to get a soft Brexit through.
I can’t argue with that thesis, but should even a tiny glimmer of a soft Brexit emerge, the short squeeze on Sterling could be a mightily impressive one, setting of 2019’s most significant whipsaw price action.
Lawmakers who favor a “soft Brexit” plan to hold votes Monday in an attempt to find a deal with majority support that can break the deadlock.
Polling shows soft Brexit to be the least inflammatory outcome – but that is because it hasn’t been on the table since May set her red lines.
Several senior Conservative MPs have suggested they could form a breakaway party if May opted to support a customs union – one of Labour’s central demands, which is also backed by Tory supporters of a Norway-style soft Brexit.
That could precipitate a general election as Mrs May has warned she would not accept a soft Brexit that contradicts the party’s manifesto commitments on leaving single market and customs union.
This brings us to soft Brexit – “Norway Plus”, inside the single market and customs union, with ongoing free movement of people, but officially outside the EU.
Complicating matters, while we think Prime Minister May could negotiate a successful deal with the EU, ‘soft Brexit’ may get rejected by Parliment.
Dominic Grieve … flying the flag for a soft Brexit.
Former minister Bob Neill, a leading supporter of a “soft Brexit” designed to protect economic growth, said: “The Prime Minister needs to show some mettle and call these people out.
Letts, a leave supporter, has previously described a soft Brexit as “baloney”.
One imagines Philip Hammond will be quick to echo Clark and Gauke’s argument that the public finances need a soft Brexit.