Example sentences of "support for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be difficult to demonstrate more dramatically the value of Frankish support for a Northumbrian ruler . |
| 2 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces , chanting at them : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
| 3 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
| 4 | Reports on July 30 said that France had indicated its support for a partial easing of sanctions against Iraq after the UN sanctions committee failed on July 24 unanimously to agree to an Iraqi request to sell oil worth US$2,400 million to buy food and medicines . |
| 5 | Learning support for a specific child/children within the classroom . |
| 6 | Roosevelt and his advisers saw Huey Long as a serious political threat , whose support for a third-party candidate in 1936 might split the Democratic vote . |
| 7 | Our data are consistent with gonadal sex being determined by the same gene in all mammals and , together with the evidence for a marsupial Y-borne homologue of the mouse Ubely , provide support for a monophyletic origin of the mammalian Y chromosome . |
| 8 | Councils run by all groupings and more importantly on the whole er by none at all er through independent councillors at parish level and they have responded with that united voice , declaring their support for a separate Cornish constituency and it might er bear remarking as I think members on all sides of this house are aware , getting that kind of agreement between councils at different tiers and in different areas of the county is pretty remarkable in itself . |
| 9 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 10 | With the abandonment of sectarian politics and the adoption of the popular front strategy , he was forced to relinquish the tactics of undifferentiated confrontation and engage instead in a complex ideological process in which unequivocal condemnation of the agents of fascism was interspersed with sophisticated and complex support for a wide range of liberal fellow-travellers who only a short time previously would have been roundly condemned as class enemies . |
| 11 | As part of its £11 million programme of support for a wide range of community activities , Barclays Bank has pledged £150,000 between 1989 and 1991 to fund Young National Trust Theatre , a professional Theatre-in-Education company . |
| 12 | The support for a genuine ‘ new order ’ now comes largely from Non-Governmental Organisations ( NGOs ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , reports showing a reduction , or even disappearance of the asthma with surgical repair or medical management of the reflux have further strengthened support for a GOR-asthma association . |
| 14 | Few things come for free , not even party support for a Prime Minister . |
| 15 | The Labour government will work within the G7 and the European Community to win support for a New Marshall Plan to assist the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and of the ex-Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN along with HAPPY MONDAYS , THE SHAMEN and SILVERFISH are amongst the bands lending their support for a new Charter 88 campaign against violations of human rights in Britain . |
| 17 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
| 18 | ( Pakistan 's Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif had meanwhile toured Maghreb capitals in mid-February to win support for a new six-point peace plan . ) |
| 19 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 20 | You should be feeling confident , bold and assertive now making this an ideal time for meeting your boss or bank manager and getting support for a new idea , concept or venture that you 're sure is a winner . |
| 21 | So lest any misunderstandings arrive that this is some thin end of some wedge , I should also add that the restriction we 're proposing only applies to national committees , does n't apply to any other office anywhere in the union and to reinforce that point the C E C will be recommending support for a general motion underlining the rights of people who are unemployed or retired to hold office throughout the G M B. |
| 22 | During the consultation process , we discovered considerable support for a general SVQ at level I. There is also a clear demand for awards at a preliminary level which will open up the SVQ and general SVQ frameworks to those for whom mainstream training is not appropriate , including those with special needs . |
| 23 | Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) . |
| 24 | Denktash 's position was rejected by Resolution 649 approved by the UN Security Council on March 13 , 1990 , which reaffirmed the Council 's support for a bicommunal federal republic excluding " any form of partition or secession " . |
| 25 | His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact . |
| 26 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 27 | This provides less support for a simple de-skilling hypothesis , revealing more of the complexity and variety of outcomes associated with new technology . |
| 28 | Some additional support for a simple x per cent rule for the money supply is provided by the analysis explained earlier about the volatility of aggregate demand . |
| 29 | The council received city support for a part-time member of staff . |
| 30 | Whatever it says about an achieved consensus on the slave trade , the 1814 campaign provides no support for a developing popular antislavery which incorporated emancipation . |