11.   Polls had predicted a right-wing resurgence in new general elections.

12.   Polls here predict Dole will have little trouble thrashing his last serious rival, Pat Buchanan, the former commentator.

13.   Polls were predicting a right-wing resurgence, which would have enabled him to build a solid majority in a reconfigured parliament.

14.   Polls predict a substantial gain for the right wing in general elections.

15.   Polls predict Yeltsin party to run second, but I doubt.

16.   Public opinion polls predict Balladur, an aloof technocrat who looks like a banker, as the likely winner.

17.   Public opinion polls predicted that Chirac could easily defeat Jospin in the second round.

18.   Recent polls predict that the Socialists would lose the next general elections which would be won by the conservative Popular Party.

19.   The defeat was larger than any poll had predicted.

20.   The English political polls predicted ruin as a result.