Example sentences of "be pressing for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 2 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 3 | The M40 currently carries about 45,000 , but that 's due to increase by 30% in the next 10 years , so councillors are pressing for the M40 to be included . |
| 4 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 5 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 6 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 7 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 8 | Tropical timber producers have been pressing for the ITTA , which expires next year , to be replaced by a comprehensive agreement that also covers wood from temperate forests . |
| 9 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 10 | Darlington Labour MP Alan Milburn said he would be pressing for the review to set up a unitary authority for the town based on existing boundaries . |
| 11 | By the 1830's the richer proprietors were pressing for the alienation of the commons . |
| 12 | Kennedy was fighting on the issue of public accountability for scientists , and the Friends of the Earth were pressing for the withdrawal of Federal funding for recombinant experiments . |
| 13 | The Government is pressing for the entire ERM system to be suspended until after France 's referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on Sunday . |
| 14 | The government is committed to closing the plant by the end of this year , but the local nuclear lobby is pressing for the deadline to be extended , arguing that it is dangerous to close a reactor down quickly . |
| 15 | Coun Graham Morris , who represents Murton on Easington District Council , claims too many companies change their original schemes once they have got planning permission and is pressing for the matter to be brought to the attention of the Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | As early as 1929 , Herbert Morrison of the London County Council was pressing for the L.C.C . |
| 17 | Iran 's Prime Minister Moussavi was pressing for the dollar to be discarded as the unit of account for pricing oil , in favour of indexation to a basket of stronger currencies . |