Example sentences of "[noun] support for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , no artist has an inherent right to claim taxpayer support for his or her private vision of art if that vision mocks the moral and spiritual basis on which our society is founded . |
| 2 | We have applied to many sources of possible grant support for these costs , such as the Lingua Project , the DAAD and industry . |
| 3 | Councillor Charles Gray , president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , was speaking on the eve of a Commons debate on grant support for local authorities . |
| 4 | He gave warning of cuts and redundancies and predicted that services in some areas would be eliminated altogether , during the annual Commons debate on grant support for local authorities . |
| 5 | He pledged boardroom support for manager Alan Fraser and his assistant Peter Watson , and urged that past history be buried . |
| 6 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , a key partner in Microsoft Corp 's NT-on-multiprocessors push , is believed to have sent Microsoft changes in the code to enable Microsoft to add 30-way processor support for NT some time ago , and the last minute expectation before launch of NT yesterday was that it would be included on the NT compact disk . |
| 7 | The importance of Norfolk County Council views are referred to in paragraph two point four point two and unless Norfolk support for route A can be obtained then Suffolk County Council will eventually be powerless to proceed with what is clearly a preferred option when measured objectively . |
| 8 | When the patient is in bed , he usually uses up to three pillows plus a wedge cushion support for his head and shoulders , to counteract spasticity ( p. 49 ) . |
| 9 | Within Pollution Probe five staffers resigned in protest and Isaacs quit soon after , citing lack of Board support for his position . |
| 10 | Benton ( 1984 ) lists the specific areas which should be provided by advisory services for visually handicapped pupils ; these include the assessment of the pupils and the evaluation of their needs , direct support for the pupils , consultancy support for their teachers , and advice and counselling for their parents . |
| 11 | There is the regional enterprise grant scheme for very small businesses and consultancy support for firms under the enterprise initiative . |
| 12 | We never pretend we have majority support for all the hard cases — pregnancy through rape , for example , ’ Mrs Bowman said . |
| 13 | He also won majority support for early parliamentary elections , but failed to get the necessary absolute majority of all registered voters , so the proposal failed . |
| 14 | On the other hand opposition , in a Parliament organized strictly on party lines , implies a situation in which it is very hard to secure majority support for your own ideas . |
| 15 | Achievement of majority support for increased Gulf aid |
| 16 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 17 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 18 | Further information : Age Concern Factsheet 25 , Income Support and the Social Fund , and Factsheet 11 , Income Support for Residential and Nursing Homes . |
| 19 | Fact no 11 , Income Support for residential and nursing homes , has been updated . |
| 20 | The issues covered include : the level of the state pension , the position of older people with incomes just above Income Support level , the minimum Community Charge Benefit , Income Support for residential and nursing home fees , the assessment of capital for income-related benefits , the Social Fund budget and disability benefits . |
| 21 | As evidence of our continuing commitment to poorer pensioners , we have announced in the Budget an increase of £2 a week for single people , £3 a week for couples , in income support for pensioners . |
| 22 | Income support for under-25s will be paid at the full rate , an increase of £8.50 per week . |
| 23 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 24 | In addition , a new premium with income support for people unemployed over two years will be introduced . |
| 25 | A weekly tariff income is used to make deductions from income support for capital between these two sums . |
| 26 | Most of the applicants for the non-contributory disablement allowance are dependent on income support for their income maintenance , and it is automatically deducted from their benefit . |
| 27 | Other recent regulations concern the suspension of unemployment benefit or a reduction of income support for people who left their job voluntarily without good cause . |
| 28 | The basic benefits available to lone parents ( with the exception of widows ) are the same as those available to other poor families with children : income support for the non-employed and family credit , and other means-tested benefits , for the low-paid workers . |
| 29 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 30 | The Department has taken away the earnings-related supplement , and have got rid of death and maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds who would not work on the Tory Government 's slave labour schemes . |