Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] pressure from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to commission a monument to the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin have been abandoned under pressure from the Bundestag . |
| 2 | Often they were detailed and informative ; and many were published under pressure from the House of Commons rather than by the free decision of the government , though the fact that they normally related to negotiations which had been concluded rather than to any still in progress inevitably limited their usefulness as a weapon of parliamentary control . |
| 3 | As for Gerstner , IBM is coming under pressure from the Securities & Exchange Commission to make an announcement to prevent a false market in the shares . |
| 4 | Contact with the detector 's power pick up terminals is maintained by pressure from the battery door ( no snap on contacts are used ) . |
| 5 | The UK company Vickers , makers of the British Challenger tank which had hoped to secure the contract , said afterwards that Kuwait 's decision had been prompted by pressure from the US government . |
| 6 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 7 | Even that letter was written after pressure from the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( IMRO ) whose chief executive John Morgan is critical of the way the managers have reacted . |
| 8 | Even that letter was written after pressure from the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( IMRO ) whose chief executive John Morgan is critical of the way the managers have reacted . |
| 9 | Although Hamdi denied that his reform programme was taken under pressure from the IMF , it followed a visit by an IMF team and was given a cautious welcome by the organisation . |