Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the pressure on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | US AGENTS have turned up the pressure on the besieged Texas cult by using glaring floodlights on the compound and cutting off electricity , and those inside are trying to communicate with banners and Morse code . |
| 2 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 3 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |
| 4 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 5 | While conceding that this is an area of ‘ great difficulty ’ , Bob Cooper intends to keep up the pressure on the security forces to improve their fair employment record . |
| 6 | The husband of Julie Godwin , who was murdered while on holiday with a friend in South Africa says he 's determined to keep up the pressure on the police to find her killer . |
| 7 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |