Example sentences of "that support for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that support for the opposition was growing , but many were still afraid — not surprisingly , as opposition leaders have already had officially-inspired warnings that , when the weekend 's official jubilation is over , there could be a new clampdown . |
| 2 | Nor is it clear that support for proportional representation would win votes : in the ITN exit poll , 52 per cent said they preferred the present system , including 45 per cent of those who voted Labour . |
| 3 | The Department of Energy has announced that support for the UK 's current 14-year research and development programme into geothermal energy will be scaled down dramatically , involving the loss of 50 to 60 jobs . |
| 4 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 5 | The leaders of the University 's teams in the research into sudden infant death and childhood cancers , Professors Jeremy Berry and Martin Mott , are adamant that support for the family is a very important factor in making progress in the management of these disorders . |
| 6 | Professor Martin Mott believes that support for a child suffering from cancer , and his or her family , plays a major role in overcoming the disease . |
| 7 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 8 | The more likely scenario is that support for SAG will wane , funding from members will dry up and DRDA will become a de facto standard by default . |
| 9 | Research indicates that support for families , especially those identified as vulnerable , should have high priority in social policy and public spending . |
| 10 | But the more likely scenario is that support for the SQL Access Group will wane , funding from members will dry up and Distributed Relational Database Architecture will become the standard by default . |
| 11 | Independent test laboratory LANQuest has found that support for a new protocol can be added to a 100-node Boundary Router network in under 10% the time taken on a network routed by standard means , says 3Com . |
| 12 | The salary paid to the collector by the county for his efforts to extract the cess from the taxpayers , moreover , was sufficient to stimulate competition for the post , and the attraction was enough on occasion to cause severe embarrassment to county politicians , who feared that support for one candidate would lead to the permanent alienation of his rivals and their friends . |
| 13 | It is suggested that support for such organisations is drawn disproportionately from the middle class , and in particular those sections of the middle class that feel most at threat from the structural changes taking place in contemporary British society . |
| 14 | But a Harris poll conducted in February indicates that support for the arts is up significantly , now over 60% as opposed to 48% in 1974 . |
| 15 | But Tim McClimon , head of the AT&T Foundation 's visual arts program , says that support for Basquiat and other ‘ artists of colour ’ reflects the corporation 's effort in its philanthropy and marketing to reach a racially diverse public . |
| 16 | The notion that support for democracy might mean taking sides in a kind of class war will seem absurd to most people today . |
| 17 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 18 | I do not therefore think that support for the Woolwich principle can be derived from this case . |
| 19 | Turkey 's primary interest is in gaining access to the European Community and Ankara believes that support for the West in the Gulf will hasten the day when Brussels will have to admit , albeit reluctantly , its first Muslim partner . |
| 20 | This kind of evidence does little to suggest that support for new parties is " rational " and based on an informed judgement as to party policy . |
| 21 | Research into the progress of bilingual pupils has demonstrated that support for , and recognition of the value of pupils ' first languages are crucial for achievement . |
| 22 | A PRO-LIFE group has dismissed as ‘ rubbish ’ claims that support for legalising abortion in the province is on the increase . |
| 23 | An opinion poll published a few days before the changes had indicated that support for the PCP had fallen to 19 per cent among the electorate , the party 's worst opinion survey result . |
| 24 | He argued that support for Inkatha , which had consistently opposed sanctions , was thus " non-party political " . |
| 25 | Opinion polls in June 1991 suggested that support for the National Party had fallen to 35 per cent , while that for the Labour Party had risen to 42 per cent . |
| 26 | Although in many areas votes were cast for individual candidates rather than the party which fielded them , analysis of the results showed that support for the AP had shifted markedly from urban to rural areas where government development plans and projects had made an impact . |
| 27 | It is , as suggested earlier , becoming clear that support for applied research is more attractive to funding bodies than support for fundamental research . |
| 28 | I would have thought that support for marketing new ideas in the difficult early stages is an excellent investment of taxpayers ’ money . |
| 29 | It is therefore likely that support for Ælfheah 's cult in London had a political as well as a religious aspect , and so the removal of his relics may indeed have been expected to provoke opposition . |
| 30 | Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response . |