Example sentences of "[verb] press for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time that members opposite stopped this petty vindictiveness and sought to join with both ourselves and the Liberals in seeking to press for real progress in recognising the specific requirement of people with disabilities . |
| 2 | Aggressively inclined courtiers like Prince Menshikov ( who was much more militant as a diplomat and as Navy Minister than as Governor of Finland ) were beginning to press for pre-emptive action . |
| 3 | Leading economic advisers began to press for greater reliance on the price mechanism , and in 1948 the Board of Trade had a ‘ bonfire of economic controls ’ . |
| 4 | Despite the problems and doubts , sandwich courses remained a central feature of the polytechnics — even as some institutions began to press for full-time courses to replace or to accompany them . |
| 5 | Court cases and the resulting media responses given to these new ‘ drug fiends ’ ( to use the phrase coined by Stanley Cohen ( 1973 ) ) verged almost on the hysterical ( see Young 1977 ) , and moral entrepreneurs began to press for more controls and increased action . |
| 6 | We therefore decided to press for immediate action where it could be taken , with the aim of achieving a Directive in the medium term . |
| 7 | Councillors decided to press for alternative routes by sea , to get the weapons to Faslane and Coulport . |
| 8 | Some will wish to press for more neighbourhood educational provision for visually handicapped pupils and will hope that their child can go to school on a daily basis from home like his fully sighted peers . |
| 9 | It also recommends that the route modernisation project team ‘ keep pressing for early authority to start the resignalling work ’ . |
| 10 | The French Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs , Alain Vivien , who had visited Djibouti on Dec. 26-28 , was understood to have pressed for further progress towards a multiparty system . |
| 11 | This last-minute addition went some way to satisfying the psychiatric lobby who had pressed for continuing health authority control . |
| 12 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 13 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 14 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , throughout 1669 , often in concert with Sir Thomas Lee [ q.v. ] , he continued to press for further investigation of corrupt practices in government accounts , to argue for limits to the supply granted to the king and against the new assessment and excise taxes , the first of which he described as ‘ a mark of our chains ’ . |
| 16 | I have pressed for better freight links , which is another argument , but we must start with a reasonably fast passenger link to Europe . |
| 17 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 18 | Both the Inter-Regional Standing Committee for Art and Design Education ( IRSCADE ) and NATFHE have pressed for some form of national validation of foundation courses and the former organization , having collected views from the colleges offering the courses , has listed five future possibilities . |