Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the statutory and common law rules referred to do impose a duty to provide reasons in certain circumstances , the absence of any general duty is still a most significant gap in our procedural protection . |
| 2 | Four years after the collapse of the communist bloc , funds promised to help cleanse the environment of Eastern Europe are still tied up in banks and many aid pledges have evaporated , The European reported . |
| 3 | Those who were not participating in this type of research had to make do with walking in the oh so prolific Manchester rain , holding pillow-fighting competitions or otherwise bear the dreadful timetabled events . |
| 4 | Recruits wanted to help organise arts exhibitions |
| 5 | The Vietnamese government has signed an agreement with the UN Development Programme intended to help conserve biodiversity , to be financed by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) . |
| 6 | More than £100m of aid directed to areas hit by industrial decline has already been withheld by the EC funding under the RECHAR programme intended to help revive run-down mining areas . |
| 7 | Montenegro had to make do with about three-fifths of her earlier gains but Bulgaria with less still . |
| 8 | Mrs White has now fitted window locks to her council house , but says that Tewkesbury Borough Council refused to help pay for them . |
| 9 | However , the coalition was then split again , over telecommunications contracts signed unilaterally by the ( Flemish ) Posts and Telecommunications Minister Marcel Colla ( which would have benefited Flemish companies ) , and over the allocation of television licence fees to the regions ( which Wallonia needed to help pay teachers ' wages — see also p. 38465 ) . |
| 10 | After an extremely modest amount of alcohol available for the toasts , the delighted guests had to make do with ‘ Lemonade/Orangeade ’ . |
| 11 | It boasts a maple-topped Brazilian mahogany body and a satin-finished maple neck with a bound ebony fingerboard and a half maple/half mahogany headstock intended to help sustain . |
| 12 | The sleeves are n't continuous but are colour coded to help identify each arch . |
| 13 | The Jericho Conspiracy combines high quality drama with a lower-intermediate language syllabus aimed to help lift students over the intermediate plateau . |
| 14 | Some , the lucky ones , had a glass for their drink but the rest had to make do with a cup or a mug . |
| 15 | Instead TOTP had to make do with a telephone interview and video . |
| 16 | Scores of patients came to help launch the Russell-Cairns Unit named after 2 Oxford doctors who led the way in head injury treatment . |
| 17 | A whole generation of non-English speaking minorities had to make do with an ad hoc system which provided makeshift translators , interpreters and semi-interpreters in G.P. 's surgeries , Hospitals , D.H.S.S offices , the Police Station and the Magistrate 's courts . |
| 18 | And erm my father and Michael had got to know the maids in in the Plas but Michael had grabbed the the the the good looking of the parlour maid and my father had to make do with the cook . |
| 19 | The Duchess of Kent and 60 guests sat down to a delicious fish meal while patients had to make do with quiche or ham salad . |
| 20 | Indeed , the average was pulled down by lumpy short-term payments made to help finance the early development of North Sea oil [ Sargent , 1979 ] . |
| 21 | Any decorator asked to help design a room for a client would start by asking certain obvious questions . |
| 22 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
| 23 | The name may not have changed but the new Bob will earn £200,000 a year , the old Bob had to make do with quite a few bob less — £93,000 . |
| 24 | Before the days of scientific toiletries , your great grandmother had to make do with simple cosmetics she made herself using herbs and foods from her kitchen cupboard . |
| 25 | Another launch from the river police arrived to help keep watch on the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 26 | Oh er Sandra went to see see Jason or anybody |
| 27 | Those looking for a sign of grace or spiritual solace from the Cardinal had to make do with what The Times called ‘ exemplary patience and meekness ’ and writers to the letters column taxed me with shallowness and poor taste . |
| 28 | And there was this awful woman , Mrs so and so , that was always telling women what to do and , she she was n't very popular because some of the things that she suggested that women did to make do and mend were so tedious and time consuming . |
| 29 | Some were given a glucose drink to start their day while others had to make do with a ‘ dummy ’ drink with no nutritional content . |
| 30 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |