Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp is planning to introduce new technology that is intended to increase the input-output transfer rate of the RS/6000 , helping eliminate bottlenecks between the microprocessor and disk drive . |
| 2 | All the neighbours have seen us clip clip clop down the path . |
| 3 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 4 | You ca n't say that it 's not helping bring people to the Sugar shows but after one show I hope they 'll forget about everything else . |
| 5 | Deland evangelically promoted his firm and its concept to a public not quite ready for it , but his moment came when war broke out and he was summoned by the US War Department to help recruit executives for the Army Service Forces . |
| 6 | Austin 's win helped lessen disappointment over the withdrawal of the tournament 's top two entrants , Steffi Graf and Jennifer Capriati , before the event began . |
| 7 | They were anxious to help regulate competition throughout the product market by establishing uniform rates of pay and standard conditions . |
| 8 | Where competing firms are small they may wish not only to help regulate competition in the product market by joining together , but also to protect themselves against a marked inequality in bargaining power , since they are too small to be able to deal effectively with the trade unions unaided . |
| 9 | At the Youth Hostel Association ( YHA ) we fully support any initiative to help improve access to the countryside and have taken this into account in recent developments at our youth hostels . |
| 10 | The constructed path is to help keep visitors off the basalt pavements which are delicate and fragile , taking aeons to create and seconds to destroy . |
| 11 | Another launch from the river police arrived to help keep watch on the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 12 | It seems Cantona believed he would be a permanent fixture in the side this season after his supporting role helped inspire Leeds to the Championship during the last campaign . |
| 13 | There is an urgent need for more socioeconomic information in this field to help set guidelines for the future . |
| 14 | In that connection , and in view of the impending serious food shortages in the Soviet Union , may I ask whether he was able to take any initiatives at Maastricht to help move foodstuffs from the Community to the Russian people ? |
| 15 | The IMF on April 8 , 1991 , approved a financing package for Costa Rica , authorizing disbursements of up to SDR88,300,000 ( about US$119 million ) over the next 12 months to support the government 's economic programme and to help meet increases in the cost of oil imports . |
| 16 | In November 1989 a three-year Export Development Project was launched to help encourage trade within the region , including with non-CARICOM countries , by sponsoring trade fairs , providing marketing information and helping trade development . |
| 17 | Fig. 3 ( b ) Having rammed the soil down firmly to ensure a firm base , a layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene is used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking and also to help retain moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 18 | By the 18th century , the botanic gardeners had started an international seed exchange , to help distribute plants around the globe . |
| 19 | The charity race helped raise £12,000 for the lifeboat which will be named Lord Raglan . |
| 20 | It is already sixteen years since we left London specifically to help put Norfolk on the map in the Medau world . |
| 21 | In September 1983 we launched the ‘ 200 Club ’ to help raise funds for the Society . |
| 22 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 23 | Meanwhile members recently organised a bring and buy to help raise funds for the club and Connie said every event was held in a warm and relaxed atmosphere . |
| 24 | The last group of 850 Belgian paratroopers flown in during September to help evacuate foreigners from the country was withdrawn on Nov. 4 . |
| 25 | The aluminium construction is finished in vinyl , and the interior is finished in white vinyl to help reflect light from the tube into the tank . |
| 26 | If there are other servants , he will expose their laziness — in fact , it was once said that brownies were originally created to help relieve men of the burden caused by Adam . |
| 27 | One may be obligated to help fight opponents of the institution or help overcome obstacles to its successful operation in ways which one is not required by its laws to do . |
| 28 | The blood test for anaemia checks the level of haemoglobin , which helps carry oxygen through the blood . |
| 29 | List the types of feasible observations you would make in order to better constrain models of the interior of Mercury . |
| 30 | For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that . |