Example sentences of "pressing for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
| 2 | It is significant that it is the Africans who are pressing for a partial lifting of the ban and the maligned fur trade has made no move in that direction . |
| 3 | The engineering unions have been pressing for a 35-hour working week , but the deal at NEI — a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce — would satisfy their claim for a two-hour reduction in the working week . |
| 4 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ The letter is a forgery but we will not be pressing for a criminal inquiry . |
| 5 | ALMOST four years after the 1985 crash of an airliner in Gander , Newfoundland , in which 248 US servicemen were killed , a group of congressmen are pressing for a new inquiry into the disaster . |
| 6 | Priests inside Malawi are pressing for a new statement from the bishops . |
| 7 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 8 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 9 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 10 | An ordinary member of parliament who attempted to gratify constituents by pressing for a senior appointment was likely to be put firmly in his place by the Treasury , for this happened even to the well-connected David Scott , when representing the Dundee burghs in 1796 . |
| 11 | A substantial part of the Cabinet was pressing for a quick outcome . |
| 12 | ARCHY KIRKWOOD , the Liberal Democrat MP , is pressing for a National Audit Office inquiry after discovering that the Inland Revenue wrote off almost £900 million in unpaid taxes in a single year . |
| 13 | To counter this , Mr Ozal is pressing for a modest change that would allow Turkey 's Kurds the right to speak their own language . |
| 14 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines was pressing for a seven-year treaty with an annual US$825 million in compensation ( comprising $400 million in cash grants and the remainder in concessions including debt reductions and trade concessions ) . |
| 15 | The opposition were loyally supporting the Government , but were also pressing for a definitive statement . |
| 16 | Commentators are also pressing for a staggered implementation , with companies being allowed to report progress on compliance for a given period of time . |
| 17 | Mr Crowther is pressing for a judicial review of the whole Department of Transport that would look into the government 's road policy . |