Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] support for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 2 | Economists , the statistics profession , trade unions and Opposition politicians all pledged support for the idea of a national council which is being promoted by eminent statisticians and considered by the Royal Statistical Society . |
| 3 | The students in this respect were merely showing support for the official position and expressing their patriotism , but they went too far in their protest action . |
| 4 | DORJE WANGDU : a 33-year-old electrician from Lhasa , he received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ , without charge or trial , in September 1991 , for peacefully expressing support for the Dalai Lama , Tibet 's Buddhist leader-in-exile , and for possessing ‘ reactionary ’ documents . |
| 5 | Scores from the RDLS also correlated with performance in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ) and the Word Reading Test after age 3 years , thus providing support for the test 's predictive validity . |
| 6 | A straw-poll of representatives yesterday showed support for the Chancellor is remarkably resilient . |
| 7 | On July 24 the National Council formally pledged support for the government . |
| 8 | However , Microsoft now says it will soon formally announce support for the Sun Microsystems Inc PC-NFS networking technology that allows personal computer users to share files and services with Unix systems . |
| 9 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 10 | and team should also enjoy support for the second of my points . |
| 11 | X/Open chief technical officer , Mike Lambert says X/Open says is also providing support for the Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation , which is trying to get its own POSC branding scheme off the ground with the aim of harmonising IT standards within the oil industry . |
| 12 | The ESRC also provided support for the preparation of the GHS into SPSS and SIR files ( Grant HR8360 ) . |
| 13 | In 1935 the fact that an Election was anticipated had probably increased support for the Peace Ballot : but that was because the Aeon had steered clear of party politics . |
| 14 | The product is not shipping yet , but it seems highly likely that when it is ready to go , DG will also announce support for the NeXTStep 486 object-oriented operating environment on its Dasher personal computers . |
| 15 | I have a general word of thanks to members of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties who have given me their support and , through them , to the various councils in their areas which have also expressed support for the Bill . |
| 16 | And Ryedale again have also expressed support for the idea of a new settlement . |
| 17 | The openly aggressive posture of fascist Germany to the revolutionary communist state , its frequently proclaimed intention to exterminate what it perceived as the sickness of communism , inevitably mobilised support for the defence of threatened revolutionary ideals . |
| 18 | It is interesting and perhaps methodologically important that the Conversation Analytic approach tentatively provides support for the " we code " / " they code " distinction , independently of " given " notions of " we " and " they " . |
| 19 | Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base . |
| 20 | A number of reports claimed that the postponement resulted from pressure by Congress ( I ) leaders who feared that the budget would be sufficiently unpopular seriously to diminish support for the party . |