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

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61 While recognising that recent trends in health education are encouraging a move away from a purely topics-based programme , pupils need to have access to reliable information on a wide range of aspects of health to help them make informed judgements about healthy practices .
62 Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking .
63 Most of them became good Americans .
64 Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent .
65 The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name .
66 Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants .
67 Over the weeks , one of them became morose .
68 Hence not only were there more old people , but more of them became unable to support themselves at earlier ages .
69 Comparisons between them became commonplace , but unlike Brando , this other rebel was not so aggressive either on screen or off it .
70 Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg .
71 My injuries were my first concern but , as the full extent of them became clear , golf came back into my mind , ’ said the 52-year-old professional .
72 " The sad thing is so many of them thought every white person is a Christian and of course they 're not , and a lot of them became disillusioned and wide open to communism , " said Eva .
73 The fire died down and the embers became grey ashes , the forest around them became full of noises as the creatures of the night resumed possession of it , but Marian , Allen and Hugh slept on until well after dawn .
74 But I suppose that it could happen if one of them became faulty .
75 It was not until the 1880s that intercolonial connections were made , and the stations which connected them became important not only as points of break of gauge , and therefore of journey for passengers , but also as customs centres .
76 It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure .
77 Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health .
78 Some rescues described were more bizarre than anything else , including the rescue of two men collecting bonsai trees in Dalness chasm , one of whom got stuck !
79 Tours were organised by Dr Marchbank and conducted by the Librarian , Miss Wright and Ms McGrath , with the help of Miss Cowan and Mrs Booth to round up stragglers and ensure no-one got lost .
80 Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’
81 ‘ Please , let me stay another minute or two , ’ said Melissa quietly .
82 You let me stay last year .
83 This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly .
84 Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me .
85 Animal welfare groups want them outlawed all together .
86 There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening .
87 ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’
88 Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions .
89 Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while .
90 Erm , I do n't know how , what we can do , I , I would suggest that we er , the Council writes to the President of the Board of Trade , making representations in support of the original boundaries of the bid , and , and also writes to our M Ps , whose constituencies are involved in this bid area , asking them to support these representations , er , er , and do the best we can to make sure that the , the five B area is as we submitted it .
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