Example sentences of "[noun pl] support his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if in Amantani there is a season without rain , he also must work in the leather trade in Lima for three or four months to support his family . |
| 2 | During these same months , Henry was also pursuing an alternative strategy to obtain the annulment by sending his agents to rifle through archives in England and on the continent in the hope of uncovering precedents to support his claim that the pope had no right of judgment over his marriage . |
| 3 | Seventeen pages of notes support his hypothesis . |
| 4 | Will he confirm that he does not stand alone in the European Community but that other countries support his firm stand ? |
| 5 | The finds supported his claim that Virghina was the site of Aegae , the ancient capital of the Macedonian Greeks . |
| 6 | His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work . |
| 7 | Does he have any figures to support his claim that , in some parts of the country , such campaigns were so vigorous that the Department had to take action ? |
| 8 | Innocent made no such requests for direct financial aid in his imperial dealings , but he was tireless in epistolary exhortations to key figures to support his candidate financially and , of course , with military aid . |
| 9 | He conveys with a sure sense of atmosphere and detail the satisfaction of getting a job done , the feeling of being within a tradition of a long line of settlers of the land , and the sheer hard work which that entails : from persuading recalcitrant committees to support his endeavours to the literally back-breaking labour of dragging obstinate lumps of bog oak out of the peat to facilitate ploughing . |
| 10 | For this reason , the Colonel pointed out , he could not ‘ consistent with my wounded feelings support his Lordship 's friend at the late General Election … ’ |
| 11 | Other delegates supported his view and the motion was amended to read : |
| 12 | When he suspected a specific person , it was his responsibility to find witnesses to support his case . |
| 13 | But Haig had persuasive arguments to support his inflexible resolve . |
| 14 | Anderson attempts to abnegate personal responsibility by assuming the role of tutor , treating his own behaviour as if it were an ethical test case , and invoking more complex philosophical arguments to support his position : His uncertainty , however , undermines his attempt to fob off Hollar with philosophical justifications . |
| 15 | An errant neurotic , failing to keep up the maintenance payments to support his own creation . |
| 16 | He claimed that the most " ordinary " Americans supported his Vietnam policy . |
| 17 | In his memoirs , Carter is more restrained , but even there he makes much of Congressional Quarterly presidential support scores to support his claim that he ‘ did reasonably well in ( his ) overall relationship with congress ’ . |
| 18 | The considerable difficulty of achieving this transformation from a society in which wealth and power were becoming increasingly monopolistic diminished Belloc 's appeal , although radical socialists supported his critique of state ‘ welfare ’ . |
| 19 | The results supported his view that in recall people make an ‘ effort after meaning ’ and in so doing they make characteristic changes to their recall . |
| 20 | He cites some statistics from two recent reports to support his argument : |
| 21 | And when Derek emphasized , as he was determined to , that the contents of the letters supported his brother 's protests of his innocence , Golding heard him out with patient inscrutability . |
| 22 | What success he had depended at least in part on the willingness and vigour with which the women supported his pleas for help : without their backing his affines could well say they had no greater obligation to him than to his enemies , and refuse to help . |
| 23 | Mr Beggs said a number of Southern politicians support his demands for an inquiry and he hoped the issue would be raised when the Dail resumes again in October . |
| 24 | The ex-Republican is Mr Lowell Weicker , a blunt critic of the conservative wing of the party , who was unseated in 1988 after a number of prominent right-wing politicians supported his Democratic opponent . |
| 25 | After repeated attempts to bring the shadow Cabinet around to his opposition to the ‘ permanent deflation and lack of democracy ’ implied in the Maastricht Treaty , Mr Gould resigned from the shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 , saying that his wish to speak out on the Maastricht Treaty was incompatible with the burden of collective responsibility , and claiming that over one hundred Labour MPs supported his position . |