Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success was the Metro-Cammell Class 156 , which helped create a new-style hourly Anglia-North West service and transform domestic Scottish and Welsh services . |
| 2 | In a special preface to their communiqué the Foreign Ministers extended to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe " the hand of friendship and co-operation " and expressed determination to " seize the historic opportunities resulting from the profound changes in Europe to help build a new peaceful order … based on freedom , justice and democracy " . |
| 3 | And should United yet manage to acquire a top frontman — attempts to sign Alan Shearer and Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp failed — then Hughes might yet be the player sold to help fund a massive financial outlay . |
| 4 | Mersey Regional Ambulance Service , which now also covers Cheshire , has been selected to help formulate a new nationwide blueprint for the care of patients with serious injuries . |
| 5 | David Tennet ( Contractors ) has been given the grant to help convert a disused two-storey building in Commercial Street into four purpose-built industrial units . |
| 6 | Some bank loans will be used in specific projects — road construction , water supply , docks , etc. — or to help finance a general economic development programme , e.g. agricultural improvements . |
| 7 | Where the decline of British engineering has diminished the industrial base and opened a black hole in the trade balance , the growth of German engineering output , matching that in Japan and America , has helped create a near impregnable manufacturing trade surplus . |
| 8 | The St Petersburg Assembly of Factory Workers , set up with official approval in February 1904 , broke loose from its sponsors and under the leadership of Father Gapon , a maverick but inspired orator , helped foster a virtual general strike in the capital . |
| 9 | Well-paid for his services to Gen Noriega , Harari was known in Panama as ‘ Mr Sixty Percent , ’ according to Panama 's former Ambassador to Tel Aviv , Mr Eduadro Herero Hassan , who was flown back to Panama this week by the US to help rebuild a new Panamanian security force . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Rafsanjani criticized Germany 's decision announced on June 30 not to help rebuild a war-damaged nuclear plant at the Gulf port of Bushehr . |
| 11 | All right then , it might just be a fabulous walk , but whatever the reason it 's helped wear a deep wide scar up the glen that the scenery could well do without . |
| 12 | Mandela led mass demonstrations last month , some of the biggest ever seen in South Africa , and helped organise a two-day national strike . |
| 13 | BRITISH Customs agents helped smash a huge worldwide cocaine smuggling and money laundering network , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | We really do need a whole new approach to the job . ’ |
| 15 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 16 | Even if we do achieve a complete unified theory , we shall not be able to make detailed predictions in any but the simplest situations . |
| 17 | They know that if I do bring a new democratic freedom to my country then it 'll mean the confiscation of those fortunes . |
| 18 | He did look a nice old cat , they seem to be a nice |
| 19 | Needless to say , nobody knew , but the bidding went up in units ( people do like a nice round unit for this type of speculation ) of £500,000 . |
| 20 | However , there is evidence that the majority of small and medium size manufacturing firms do employ a single overhead rate . |
| 21 | Even if we do discover a complete unified theory , it would not mean that we would be able to predict events in general , for two reasons . |
| 22 | These youth cliques , with picturesque names like Edelweisspiraten or , based on their taste in music , Swing , were regarded as a political menace by the regime , and for the most part their behaviour did contain a distinct political dimension — rejection of the Party , the Hitler Youth , the regime , and the Führer himself and the lack of freedom and dull uniformity which his rule represented . |
| 23 | On the other hand the sacrificial system did demand a right inward attitude . |
| 24 | While you would n't want to call the cosy little sitcommunity of Marshall , Marshall and Howard auteurs , they do share a similar cinematic vision . |
| 25 | The starting point for this was the need to decide whether the government did have a credible economic development strategy , whether there was any community focus to it , and how its various programmes impacted on communities within West Belfast . |
| 26 | He did not feel the presence of the dead poet in the room , but he did have a vague excited sense that any of these containers — the desk , the trunks , the hat-boxes , might contain some treasure like the faded letters in his own breast-pocket . |
| 27 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
| 28 | Granted this helped the swelling of the coffers of the tobacco company that was the sponsor , but it did have a tremendous evangelical effect for the game , proselytising many . |
| 29 | But they did have a distinct legal life . |
| 30 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |