Example sentences of "to press [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disenchantment with exchange rate flexibility and the recognition that inflation can not be controlled through uncoordinated monetary policies generated the political will in France and Germany to press for the formation of a regional monetary system . |
| 2 | Even so , at the very least you ought to make sure that you understand fully what you are committing yourself to before deciding whether you can afford not to press for the document to be amended . |
| 3 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 4 | U Aung Shwe , leader of the NLD 's 15-member delegation to the " co-ordination committee " , came under increasing pressure from within the NLD to adopt a tougher line , and to press for the release of all " persons who should be taking part in these talks " . |
| 5 | And number , and two , to press for the provision of suitable houses for old people at rents they can afford . |
| 6 | To press for the provision of suitable houses for old people at rents they can afford . |
| 7 | Incidentally , the SRU will continue to press for the IRFB to form a Laws Advisory Committee consisting of genuine experts as opposed to five members of the board who may be good men and true but who know damn all about , for example , why the laws have evolved as they have . |
| 8 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |
| 9 | On the Gulf crisis , the Council denounced Iraq 's " unscrupulous use " of hostages and agreed unanimously " not to send representatives of their governments in any capacity to negotiate with Iraq the release of foreign hostages and to discourage others from doing so " , while calling on the UN Secretary-General to send a special representative to Iraq to press for the hostages ' release . |
| 10 | In particular the crisis was seen by Washington as an opportunity to press for the rearmament of West Germany . |
| 11 | When the matter is further considered by the committee in April , the United Kingdom will continue to press for the phasing-in period to be less than the proposed five years . |
| 12 | Four people were killed and at least 200 injured in Dhaka and Chittagong during nationwide strikes on June 20 and 21 called to press for the trial of Gholam Azam , leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh , on charges of crimes committed during the country 's 1971 war of independence . |
| 13 | Members of WACC 's Latin American/Caribbean Regional Association ( WACC-LA/C ) are increasing their efforts to press for the legalisation and development of community radios throughout the region . |
| 14 | New pay recommendations are due in the new year and , although Mr Clarke has told the review body that there must be pay restraint , ministers appear likely to press for the award to be met . |
| 15 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 16 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 17 | Ask local car dealer to write to car manufacturers to press for the introduction of more fuel efficient cars ? |
| 18 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 19 | During 1990-91 the Commission continued to press for the introduction of its policy deregulating European air traffic routes . |
| 20 | The Labour Party , on the other hand , continued to press for the acceptance of its Parliamentary Standing Orders . |
| 21 | He had neglected , he said , to press for the completion of certain formalities . |
| 22 | It would seem that the priests fought a hard election campaign for the liberals began to press for the limitation of clerical deputies — a step inconceivable in 1809 . |
| 23 | The Rally of the Guinean People , the Guinean Party of Progress and the Union for the New Republic announced on Oct. 8 the formation of an opposition alliance , the Front for Struggle and for Government ; the main aim of the front was to press for the postponement of legislative elections scheduled for November , in order that a national conference could be held beforehand . |
| 24 | The Commission continued during this period to press for the creation of a single EC market in energy , particularly in response to appeals from France , which sought larger export markets for its nuclear-generated electricity . |
| 25 | The ANC continued to press for the setting up of an interim government during the constitutional negotiations , whereas some other groups , including the Democratic Party and the Zulu-based Inkatha movement , favoured the current government staying in power during the transition period . |
| 26 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 27 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 28 | When rollers are set out , children may flatten the clay and use whichever shapes are provided , to press into the clay . |
| 29 | IntelliCorp claims it holds patents it has yet to press on the mapping of relational databases to object database among other seminal items . |
| 30 | By the early sixteenth century , however , the figure of arrears dropped ; as a rising population began to press on the means of subsistence , the lord had a more powerful weapon to hand . |