Example sentences of "[vb past] been press [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1967 Criminal Justice Act had added the suspended sentence which had been pressed on the Home Secretary by an enthusiastic judiciary . |
| 2 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 3 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 4 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 5 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 6 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 7 | 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 . |