Example sentences of "been pressing [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for this reason that many of the shop stewards ' conferences that we 've convened in the last year have been pressing a policy of consolidating bonus pay into the basic rates and we 've achieved some small success in this in building brick and in one or two other industries . |
| 2 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |
| 3 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 4 | The Medical Women 's Federation has been pressing the Department of Health to introduce more flexible arrangements to encourage less than full time training . |
| 5 | They have been pressing the president to appeal to regional leaders for support , offering them more local powers under the new constitution . |
| 6 | He has been in touch with Greenalls who , in turn , have been pressing the contractor to compensate him . |
| 7 | Ever since September 1988 , Mr Li 's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy . |