Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] pressure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Home Secretary bear in mind that the rural areas of Northumberland have been especially difficult to police while the urban areas have been under great pressure and there has been a shortage of officers ? |
| 2 | I know that many of you and your colleagues have been under great pressure during our own recession to restrain wage claims and to accept deferred or even zero settlements . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that I can work with Sir John Hall and the board of directors who , along with everyone else at the club , have been under tremendous pressure because of the club 's present financial position . ’ |
| 4 | With the exponential explosion of human populations in the last hundred years the natural resources on which such societies traditionally depended have been under increasing pressure both from the indigenous people and from foreigners who had little thought or concern for practising sustainable harvesting . |
| 5 | It was an immense show of faith by the Forest board who have been under increasing pressure from rebels , supporters and shareholders alike , who are seeking a change of manager after a disastrous start to the season . |
| 6 | Editor , — In recent months dermatologists have been under increasing pressure from fundholding general practitioners to conduct clinics in the community . |
| 7 | We have protected pensioners and other pass users for at least the last two or three years when we have been under considerable pressure to abandon free travel . |
| 8 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |