Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives .
2 I 'd be very interested to know er in terms of U turns which I 'll come back to , how he 's going to deal with the next item on the agenda er , whereby the Liberal Democrats have been consistent about their policy in general with a lot of obstruction and being caused problems and how Mr will agree in this chamber to actually close some people 's homes , old people 's homes
3 In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow .
4 On Sept. 6 interest in the Iran-contra investigation was renewed when a federal grand jury indicted Clair E. George , former chief of CIA covert operations , on 10 felony accounts accusing him of lying to and obstructing congressional and judicial investigations of the Iran-contra affair .
5 I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does .
6 He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world .
7 Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one .
8 Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material .
9 Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues .
10 In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden .
11 Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas .
12 John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar .
13 This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation .
14 However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good .
15 It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act .
16 The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family .
17 The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech .
18 It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening .
19 Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously .
20 I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out .
21 Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand .
22 The chief purpose of the chapter is to outline how the two opposing groups in Ireland developed their dominant beliefs in the context of the new states of Ireland , and moulded the states to support them , strengthening antagonisms between the two groups .
23 In the end there was a tremendous battle because , although Mrs Christie expressed a wish in her will for the island to become a nature reserve , she left no money to carry it out .
24 I 'm not against the principle as I said when I came , when I was on the Council previously , when this was first hanging about , that there 's little doubt about it as , it 's a good policy , but will we get the money to carry it out .
25 Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago .
26 BABY Renee looked smashing , her mother looked happy , but has dad Rod Stewart got something wrong with his wrists ?
27 Many otaku make their living in technology-related fields , as software designers , computer engineers , computer graphic artists or computer magazine editors .
28 Ripa di Meana 's idea would , however , require an international treaty whereby Italy would relinquish sovereignty over the town in exchange for the other member states financing its revitalisation .
29 The French fabliau in England may take one of two basic forms : fabliaux composed in Old French in France of which copies made their way to England , and fabliaux composed ( in most cases re-composed ) in the Anglo-Norman dialect , presumably in England .
30 A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us .
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