Example sentences of "to press for [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees require information to determine whether , in the first place , to work for a public sector agency and subsequently to determine when to press for salary increases or an enhancement of conditions of employment . |
| 2 | Britain to press for bird import ban |
| 3 | Conservative candidate Michael Bates is to press for Cattesty Beach at Skinningrove to be designated a bathing beach . |
| 4 | It hopes the findings of the survey will provide ammunition to press for government funding as well as policy changes to encourage housing associations or similar schemes to help local people . |
| 5 | There were , however , divisions within the Labour movement between those prepared to press for unemployment benefits and public works and those who argued that these were mere palliatives , and that shorter hours , higher pay and ultimately social ownership of industry should be the fundamental aims . |
| 6 | We therefore urge our friends to press for inquiry commissions to investigate the terrible conditions of all Israeli jails . |
| 7 | The ‘ kinship defenders ’ are more concerned to press for policy changes , such as more day-care provision to help one-parent families , as urgently necessary ; the other group perhaps sees such changes as more long term , as not immediately related to the needs of the children who are currently the subject of placement decisions . |