Example sentences of "[to-vb] support for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's meeting of the TUC-unions — NUPE , Cohse , TGWU , GMB , and Nalgo — is likely to concentrate on efforts to sustain support for the action through the Christmas period . |
| 2 | The aim of verifying the accuracy and reliability of records and documents ( by examination and testing ) is to obtain support for the expression of an opinion on the financial statements . |
| 3 | However , there was mounting concern amongst delegates to the CUC 's annual conference that — against the background of trends in government policy and the declining awareness and appreciation by the general public of the value of higher education — the CUC was not meeting the objective ‘ to engender support for the enhancement of higher education and its institutions in the community at large ’ . |
| 4 | Soviet officials failed to respond , therefore , to Western attempts in 1980 to broaden support for the idea of creating a ‘ neutral and non-aligned Afghanistan ’ by enlisting the ASEAN states behind the proposal . |
| 5 | On Nov. 13 , however , Geremek resigned , saying that he had failed to win support for a left of centre coalition . |
| 6 | It is impossible to discover when and by whom the decision to depose the king was taken , but when parliament assembled , Mortimer and his supporters embarked on a carefully orchestrated campaign to win support for the removal of the king . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Chancellor Norman Lamont managed to win support for the pound from the EC yesterday . |
| 8 | Potential Tory rebels are threatening to withhold support for the Government in a future vote on the white paper if it does not give a firm long-term guarantee for the reprieved pits . |
| 9 | Despite President Boris Yeltsin 's attempts to rally support for a postponement of the forthcoming session of the Congress of People 's Deputies until March 1993 , the Supreme Soviet voted on Oct. 21 by 114 to 59 to convene the Congress for its seventh session to open on Dec. 1 . |
| 10 | APAP members in London — believed to be seriously disaffected by the association 's stance in the dispute — will be met by an executive member , Mr Peter Kenney , in the first of a series of meetings to rally support for the union amid threats of a revolt following the resignation of the 132-strong Hertfordshire chapter last week . |
| 11 | The gathering force of worrying rumour about the killing in asylums of mentally sick and incurably ill patients was one factor which , especially but not solely among practising Christians , was giving rise to grave concern and threatening to alienate support for the regime In August 1941 , news of the courageous open denunciation of the ‘ euthanasia action ’ by Bishop Galen of Münster spread rapidly and seems to have persuaded Hitler to halt the killing , at least inside the Reich itself . |
| 12 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |