Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] support for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unrest , which killed 11 people , spread elswhere in the south , the traditional base for support for the Hashemite regime ; first to al Hassaniyeh and al Tufeila , and then up to Kerak , Madaba and Salt . |
| 2 | It is also clear that there was a great deal of support for the old church throughout the country , and particularly from the gentry elites of provincial England . |
| 3 | However , combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders ' Party , the other government coalition partner . |
| 4 | A loss of support for the federal government was indicated by an unexpected victory of the ruling Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS ) over the People 's Justice Party ( Angkatan Keadilan Rakyat — Akar ) formed in September 1989 by breakaway members of the PBS , in the Ranau by-election to the Sabah State Assembly on Dec. 9 . |
| 5 | The first multiparty local elections in Romania for 45 years , held on Feb. 9 , 16 , and 28 , demonstrated significant loss of support for the ruling National Salvation Front ( NSF ) compared with the parliamentary elections held in May 1990 [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister 's declarations of support for the United Nations are , as ever , to be commended . |
| 8 | Polling Day Weather : Dry , sunny and warm THE RESULT of the general election was thrown wide open last night , with three polls suggesting a last-minute rallying of support for the embattled Conservatives . |
| 9 | The strong showing by the FN in the Lyon by-elections followed a surge in support for the extreme right at a municipal election on Jan. 20 and 27 in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois , where the mayoralty had hitherto been held by the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 10 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 11 | The consultation leaflet was slanted in a way er which moved the response towards support for the proposed relief roads . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it was the British Labour movement which was the backbone of support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 14 | MUCH TO their chagrin , the woes of Chancellor Kohl 's centre-right coalition have yet to produce a solid wave of support for the Social Democrats . |
| 15 | Two million voted in the six republics that had formally declined to participate , among whom the level of support for the continued existence of the USSR was predictably very high . |
| 16 | From the point of view of prevention , this suggests that when a lack of care arises in the context of marital separation or parental death , some kind of support for the single parent may be particularly valuable . |
| 17 | A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] . |
| 18 | Such indirect arguments are scorned by modern biologists , but at the turn of the century they were the mainstay of support for an active Lamarckian movement . |
| 19 | The final section will then examine the socio-economic configuration of support for the two parties . |
| 20 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the degree of support for the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) , which secured 5.6 per cent of the vote , suggested that in spite of events in eastern Europe loyalty to Communist theory persisted . |
| 22 | On the thorny question of support for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment on its kit ( UX Nos 375 , 379 ) , Sun will now say only that if there is demand for it from customers , then ‘ fine , why not ? |
| 23 | The operation of the electoral system has changed as a result of alterations in the level and distribution of support for the political parties , so that the value of a vote is far less for the supporters of some parties than others and in some constituencies than in others . |
| 24 | From his investigations into the divisions that the fighting produced within the village communities of Wiltshire , Somerset , and Devon , David Underdown concluded that ‘ the distribution of support for the two sides in the western counties shows how strongly Church and King were associated with the old festive culture ’ . |
| 25 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 26 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 27 | In Teheran 's poor southern suburbs , which supposedly form the bedrock of support for the Islamic revolution , many young people said they would not be voting . |
| 28 | The variety of the sources of support for a national scheme of family allowances are an important feature of the story of how the scheme was accepted and implemented . |
| 29 | During the ‘ phoney war ’ — the eerie nine months between Chamberlain 's declaration of war and Hitler 's attack in the West — there was a substantial current of support for a negotiated peace . |
| 30 | There was also a sharp rise in support for the far-Right . |