Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 2 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 3 | It dramatically increased awareness of the Bank in the marketplace and helped bring about a significant increase in sales — particularly Gold 90 Accounts . |
| 4 | Labour will work in the United Nations , the Commonwealth , the European Community and NATO to help bring about the peaceful reunification of Cyprus , on the federal basis advocated by the sovereign government of Cyprus . |
| 5 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 6 | He 'd helped set up a new research wing , which was due to be officially opened in a fortnight 's time . |
| 7 | Hereford and Worcester Community Council helped draw up the damning report on village amenities . |
| 8 | The Law Societies have renewed the research contract to enable the Report to be kept up to date , and to help assess how the other Member States are implementing the Directive . |
| 9 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 10 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 11 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 12 | As predicted , we did catch up the cold front , refiled IFR and had to climb even further . |
| 13 | Do consider how the new conservatory will best blend with the property and whether to use single glazing which is less expensive or double glazing which allows the conservatory to be used more comfortably the year around . |
| 14 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 15 | The four men , as McKenzie had suggested , did present rather an odd spectacle . |
| 16 | ( Piaget did carry out an oral version of the task , but he does not report details of the results . ) |
| 17 | The walk up through the harmony of the sunny woodlands , the lightness of sensation which a testing walk always gave her , coupled with her natural health , did bring out every pleasing feature she had . |
| 18 | The new measures did bring about a large flow of resources to the disadvantaged . |
| 19 | Do carry on the good work , in September with encouragement to all new people in your class , and in January with the renewal of your own membership . |
| 20 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 21 | Please do keep up the good work . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I do keep up an entrepreneurial connection with the local pool interests , ’ Ken admitted . |
| 23 | Once , she did slide just the briefest look that way — to find Matthew , rather than being happily engrossed in entertaining his giggly companion , staring blackly right at her . |
| 24 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 25 | The second fact issued before us and it 's one that I referred to er when we did it , debated this last time is that if members do take seriously the whole question of |
| 26 | However , if you do take out a foreign currency loan , make certain that it is possible to switch back into sterling at least once , and at short notice without incurring heavy charges , otherwise you are very exposed . |
| 27 | Even Green did wonder why a better path could not have been made and recommended a little landscaping of trees and rocks which blocked the views of Stock Ghyll force . |
| 28 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I did have rather a bad night . ’ |
| 30 | And Otis is relieved that he did take out the extra cover , because , in September in 1989 , just five months after he bought the car , he had an accident . |