Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 2 | At Level Three the student will identify personal and social development goals in relation to community involvement and arrange a programme to help achieve these goals , working independently . |
| 3 | Whilst access to these acres helped alleviate some of the expansionist pressures the cost of transport or difficulty in maintaining adequate attention could lead to unacceptably high losses at times . |
| 4 | More than half found that the techniques on the tape helped reduce these attacks . |
| 5 | If there is a thick layer of sediment on the bottom , start using a product like A.B.A. to help remove this sludge — but you will have to increase the aeration of the water while you use it as it can cause a heavy demand on the dissolved oxygen to remove the sludge . |
| 6 | It is also advisable to float something on the surface of a concrete pond to help absorb some of the pressure produced by the ice patch , an empty , sealed lemonade bottle , plastic football , large piece of cork or even a tennis ball will do the job admirably . |
| 7 | The VHPB aims to develop clear guidelines to help identify those at risk , and to implement successful vaccination programmes to overcome this uneven protection of at risk workers . |
| 8 | These results suggest , first , that simultaneous 24 hour ambulatory oesophageal and gastric pH monitoring is helpful in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus to help identify those patients at greater risk of developing complications . |
| 9 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 10 | It seems that Freud did regard most religious beliefs as unjustified by experience and by reason , and that they therefore required an explanation in terms of psychoanalysis . |
| 11 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 12 | It is arguable ( and the Revenue do accept this ) that if the income arising in the trust is taxable under s739 and payments are made out from the trust there is no double charge to tax ( under s739 and Case V as a new source ) , even though these may create a new Case V source . |
| 13 | Some 60,000 people in Srebrenica , in eastern Bosnia , have received no aid at all by road since December , though the US air force did drop some supplies by parachute into the area on Saturday night . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that the reactions of the parties do have some effect on the leaders , though probably this is a little more true in the case of the Conservative Party . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , these authors do list those characteristics of the ‘ strike setting ’ which they consider most conducive to violence ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:10–11 ) . |
| 17 | His objection to these studies was that the passages these investigators used made very little sense unless subjects did have some prior knowledge of their content . |
| 18 | But the north west and the west coast did get some sunny spells , while the rest of the country had to contend with some patchy rain . |
| 19 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 20 | The research did illuminate that discriminatory policies and practices carried out within local authority departments etc. , caused an obvious disparity in the way that Black women were dealt with . |
| 21 | However , the South African presidential delegation did have some informal meetings with members of the caucus , of which some members wanted all US sanctions sustained until the fifth condition was met — repeal of the Group Areas Act and of the Population Registration Act . |
| 22 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 23 | These data do lend some support to the prevailing public opinion . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , quantitative data do provide some guide to changes in the subject balance of first degree courses over recent years . |
| 25 | For instance , Pythagoras ' proof that the sides of a right-angled triangle are related by the formula a N2 + b N2 = c N2 shows more than the mere fact that all right-angled triangles do have this property . |
| 26 | We certainly set it because if the kids do spend all their time doing these demonstration experiments they 're sure to get bored — life is like that . |
| 27 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 28 | Industry does convert some methane into methanol by first mixing it with water and using high temperatures to turn this mixture into hydrogen and carbon monoxide . |
| 29 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 30 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |