Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 7 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 8 | Investigations revealed he was driving without insurance or a licence . |
| 9 | These imperfections make it all the more important for regulators to enforce the BIS minimums and set higher standards for riskier banks . |
| 10 | One of the other Germans emptied it and I recognized among the papers the interrogation form which the naval officer on the island had filled in . |
| 11 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 12 | These will in most cases make it easier for tax exiles to acquire a foreign domicile . |
| 13 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 14 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 15 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 16 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 17 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 18 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 19 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 20 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 21 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the effect of synonymous substitution and the continuing relevance of their literal meanings make it unsatisfactory simply to call them ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 23 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 24 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |
| 25 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 26 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 27 | So now he walked , still angry with them , but glad to be away , glad to have salvaged something from yet another of their attempts to grind him down . |
| 28 | They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do . |
| 29 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 30 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |