Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] pressure " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded that Thorp was likely to be the first of British Nuclear Fuel 's ( BNFL ) projects to be closed if the company was to come under financial pressure . |
| 2 | Analysts expect the pound to come under renewed pressure in the run-up to Thursday 's Bundesbank meeting , which will decide whether and by how much to raise West Germany 's key Lombard interest rate . |
| 3 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 4 | President Bush has come under congressional pressure to step up the sanctions . |
| 5 | At this price it has come under increasing pressure from the Commodore Amiga , which starts at the same price and attracts similar discounts . |
| 6 | Television and media have come under increasing pressure from the government not to publicise controversies about military and security matters . |
| 7 | Although the new government had almost immediately initiated investigations of former CPCz officials for crimes committed before the November revolution , it had come under increasing pressure to broaden the scope of the investigations , particularly after a demonstration by over 100,000 people in Prague on May 12 . |
| 8 | Rocard had come under increasing pressure in the National Assembly ( lower house of parliament ) where he was dependent on alliances with either the right or the PCF in order to get legislation approved . |
| 9 | However , following the overwhelming defeat of these proposals in a popular referendum on Nov. 15 [ see p. 39185 ] , he had come under increasing pressure from party activists to resign . |
| 10 | Friends of Morton said : ‘ We are convinced the princess has come under unbelievable pressure to issue this statement . |
| 11 | The authorities had come under growing pressure to act more vigorously against extreme right-wing organizations and activities after a hotel used as a temporary refugee centre was firebombed on Jan. 17 , the first incident of its kind in Austria . |
| 12 | The world of analytical measurement has come under severe pressure recently , noted Worswick . |
| 13 | The south east of England has come under exceptional pressure from new housing proposals . |
| 14 | Open space has come under immense pressures from developments such as housing and road building , or neglected due to lack of resources . |
| 15 | Membership has fallen by more than 3 million or nearly 25 percent , and traditional systems of labour organization and industrial relations have come under considerable pressure . |
| 16 | TRANSPORT Secretary John MacGregor has come under fresh pressure to reject any plans for a new motorway linking mid-Essex with the M25 . |
| 17 | Mobutu had come under sustained pressure to reach a power-sharing agreement with Tshisekedi , a leading figure of the opposition Democratic Union for Social Progress ( UDPS ) and in the opposition Sacred Union alliance , and his dismissal provoked renewed protests . |
| 18 | The Kaszubians came under strong pressure to Germanise under Frederick the Great , and again under Wilhelm II in the early years of the Reich . |
| 19 | Confirmation of this view is provided by the enormous and extremely rapid gains in productivity which were achieved in the motor vehicle and iron and steel industries when they came under strong pressure through government rationalisation schemes in the 1970s [ Bhaskar , 1979 ] . |
| 20 | President Alan García , who declared Jan. 10 as a national day of mourning , came under strong pressure from leading civil servants and opposition party leaders to intensify security for former as well as present senior government officials , especially in the light of recent police intelligence reports that Sendero Luminoso planned an escalating campaign of violence to disrupt presidential elections due on April 8 . |
| 21 | Mr Portillo came under strong pressure from Gordon Brown , the shadow chancellor , who branded the Budget a betrayal of the people of Britain . |
| 22 | Her liaison with Wyatt continued apace until late in 1990 when the Duchess finally came under official pressure to cool it . |
| 23 | US President Bush ( who had been head of the then US liaison mission in Beijing in 1974-75 ) , appeared to want to restore relations as they had been before the Tiananmen Square massacre , but often came under congressional pressure to adopt a policy more critical of China . |
| 24 | With the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 60s , the NILP came under increasing pressure from the rival sectarian political camps . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the 1960s , however , the adjustable peg system came under increasing pressure from the growth in short-term capital movements . |
| 26 | Traditional local government arrangements came under increasing pressure from the continuing industrialisation that gathered momentum from the middle of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Gamsakhurdia was elected President with 86.5 per cent of the vote in May 1991 ; he came under increasing pressure thereafter because of an increasingly authoritarian style of government , and in January 1992 was forced to flee the Georgian capital . |
| 28 | However , amicable relations deteriorated steadily as Glenure came under increasing pressure from the Scottish exchequer to discriminate against known Jacobites . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister therefore came under increasing pressure from within his own Likud party to oppose any compromise on the proposed Palestinian delegation . |
| 30 | During July and August the East German coalition government led by Lothar de Maizière of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) came under increasing pressure , especially over differences concerning procedures for unification and for the all-German elections scheduled for Dec. 2 . |