Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] case for " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE New Zealand Dairy Board has been touring Europe over the past two weeks pressing its case for continued access to the British dairy market . |
| 2 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 3 | Mr Mallory , whose stomach was noisily urging its case for a prompt breakfast , collected his offspring and set off home . |
| 4 | I and my colleague thank you on behalf of the people in for this opportunity of presenting our case for acceptance of this petition . |
| 5 | Dustin imagines himself angrily taking his case for male pregnancy to God , a bureaucrat behind a desk . |
| 6 | It would be very helpful to the Regional Council in preparing its case for this inquiry to have a copy of the proofs of evidence presented by your officials at the inquiry relating to the Oxford United proposals . |
| 7 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 8 | The voluntary bodies complained they would be forced to incur unreasonable costs preparing their case for Parliament if the bill was to be withdrawn yet again . |
| 9 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 10 | The former Cowdenbeath manager , John Brownlie , who was sacked in controversial circumstances last May , will be making his case for unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh next week . |
| 11 | The former Cowdenbeath manager , John Brownlie , sacked in controversial circumstances last May , will be making his case for unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh next week . |
| 12 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |