Example sentences of "[verb] support for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * The government is to host a further meeting in Tunis in April , when representatives of Western donors and multilateral agencies will consolidate plans to continue support for the environmental programme . |
| 2 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 3 | To establish support for the prospective family , a system of referral from adoption agencies to child health records or community managers is needed . |
| 4 | These differences , together with the serious physical health consequences and metabolic abnormalities associated with vomiting and purging , provide support for the DSM-IV subtyping of anorexia nervosa . |
| 5 | As a site for negotiation between divided interests , the state aims to secure support for the long-term survival of Japan 's capitalist society by , among other things , absorbing the legitimacy of the elected government into the process of constructing the national interest . |
| 6 | To support distributed computing environments , Dun & Bradstreet says SmartStream will include support for the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing and Management Environments . |
| 7 | During the afternoon meeting , several breaks were called to allow discussions between the various groupings to examine the three motions on the table : a strong attack on the MPs , calling on the executive not to endorse their actions ; a motion regretting their action , and the successful statement welcoming the concession wrung out of the Westminster system and pledging support for the parliamentary group . |
| 8 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 9 | Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , expressing support for the Colombian government 's anti-drugs campaign , called for a " world war against drug trafficking " . |
| 10 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see also Kraemer and Ossenkopp 1986 ; Kraemer , Hoggman , and Spear 1988 ) have invoked results from a rather different experimental procedure in seeking support for the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition . |
| 11 | Researchers do not normally look to accountants when seeking support for the imaginative leaps which have characterised the most major advances in science . |
| 12 | The declaration highlighted the importance of the current Middle East peace talks and reiterated support for the Palestinian intifada , adding that the liberation of Jerusalem " was the Islamic cause of this generation " . |
| 13 | Although dissident Conservatives seem disorganised and fragmented , a nervous Conservative Central Office mobilised party chairmen across the country to organise support for the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | It confirmed support for the Federal Treaty [ see p. 38825 ] as " a constituent part of the [ future ] Russian Constitution " and the basis of nationalities policy . |
| 15 | Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base . |
| 16 | ‘ Highly Conservative in politics , they are also High Churchmen ’ ; their sectarian spirit focused on Clarkson because , although a churchman , he had been an apologist for Quakerism and in earlier days as an enthusiast for civil as well as religious liberty ‘ he belonged to a very liberal class ’ and showed support for the French Revolution . |
| 17 | Some 40 other computer and telecommunications companies were poised to announce support for the new standard , including Lotus Development Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Digital Equipment Corp , Northern Telecom Ltd and Siemens AG , the last two in their telephone systems . |
| 18 | According to the report , the USA was " pouring millions of dollars into north-western Cambodia " in an attempt to win support for the non-communist rebels ahead of any peace settlement . |
| 19 | Donor states are aware that by providing support for the armed forces of one superpower their territory could become a target in the military operational planning of the other superpower . |
| 20 | After annexation Korea was seen as crucial in providing support for the Japanese economy and four times as much long-term capital was invested in Korea than in Taiwan . |
| 21 | The Democratic Party , a member of Civic Union , which was simultaneously holding its ( fourth ) party congress , expressed support for the new Chernomyrdin Cabinet . |
| 22 | In his address to the congress , the chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet , Ruslan Khasbulatov , expressed support for the continued existence of collective and state-owned farms as the most effective way to provide food at the present time . |
| 23 | Thus during a visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Datuk Hussein Onn , in September 1979 Kosygin expressed support for the ZOPFAN resolution since its implementation ‘ would establish a precondition for the widening of the process of détente over all the Asian continent ’ . |
| 24 | A week after the meeting , Cobh , Midleton and Passage West , three towns around the Harbour , expressed support for the Ringaskiddy residents ' campaign and urged An Taisce to review its support for Raybestos 's use of asbestos . |
| 25 | While there was a general recognition that the matter demanded further discussion , only Dalton urged support for the general thrust of Keynes 's paper . |
| 26 | In a broadcast on Radio Russia on March 15 he complained that the real purpose of the referendum was to " gain support for the present leadership " , adding : " The aim is to preserve the imperial , unitary state of the union , to preserve the system by renewing it just on the surface . " |
| 27 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 28 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 29 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 30 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |