Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trading is still tough , but Watmoughs now detects some scope for selective price increases and the devalued pound is already helping win new contracts , especially against German printers . |
| 2 | On the death of Charles James Fox [ q.v. ] in 1806 , Creevey became dissatisfied with the party 's leaders , and his attacks on the Grenvilles helped weaken Whig unity . |
| 3 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 6 | As well as serving as informed sources themselves , they helped identify additional experts who were interviewed . |
| 7 | The author and the Editor would like to thank the scientists who helped keep these tales within the bounds of fact : entomologist Dr John Maunder and parasitologist Dr Ian Burgess , both of the University of Cambridge . |
| 8 | Spenser represented real cultural preoccupations in his texts but these representational forms became vehicles which helped enforce cultural categories and the apparent identities they confer . |
| 9 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
| 10 | Trees had carelessly let go great branches or had toppled down entirely , throwing their roots up into the air . |
| 11 | Travelling on a mission trip sponsored by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church , she helped distribute 35,000 Bibles in Moscow and attended church services . |
| 12 | The timetable does n't appear to bear bear any resemblance to what er I 've got on the programme . |
| 13 | A clerk may : ( i ) transfer proceedings to another court ; ( ii ) appoint a guardian ad litem or a solicitor for a child ; ( iii ) give , vary or revoke directions for the conduct of proceedings under FPCR , r14 ; ( iv ) make repeat interim care , supervision or s8 orders which are unopposed and on the same terms as previous orders ; ( v ) issue a witness summons under s97 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 ; ( vi ) request a welfare report . |
| 14 | If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment . |
| 15 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 16 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 17 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 18 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 19 | Is he the same driver that you let go two years ago , he 's an old man of the track a little at , he has n't had a terribly successful time at Ferrari . |
| 20 | Milton let pass that slur on his country . |
| 21 | While the Whirlwind is aimed at skiers , Phoenix are already working on a new line of garments made form Italian fleece and aimed at walkers and climbers . |
| 22 | Inferences can be made form incomplete knowledge , alternative explanations and possibilities can be weighed up . |
| 23 | However , I should say editors gain no financial benefit from sales , all monies helping finance further publications and conferences , including bursaries to classroom teachers to attend the next CARN Conference . |
| 24 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 25 | Ironically , crime is helping provide legitimate employment for 420,000 people battling AGAINST it . |
| 26 | The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration . |
| 27 | Other grants recently given to firms include : — Barry Chow , Wilson Street , £14,880 to help modify empty building for take-away restaurant , with up to ten jobs created ; — Ruby Tuesday , Parliament Road , £11,804 to help create extra space for planned business expansion by fashion accessories firm , with five additional jobs planned ; — S Upex and Son , North Ormesby Road , £7,690 to help improve premises ; — Tyne Tees Cash-and-Carry , Cargo Fleet Lane , £20,975 to help reconstruction of access road and security fencing ; — A Razzaq , Linthorpe Road , £6,667 to help refurbish property used as a take-away restaurant ; — Laing Employment Training Organisation , Parliament Road , £1,908 to help with site security at its base in the old Cleveland Transit bus depot ; — Fletcher Investment Consultants , Wilson Street , £1,108 towards painting and cleaning outside of premises . |
| 28 | This kind of specialised service has helped make Homegrown Videos one of the biggest distributors in the business . |
| 29 | Four-year-old Oscar went racing into the darkness as his owners helped make hot drinks for mountain rescue teams . |
| 30 | She said the Neighbourhood Watch scheme had helped make ten arrests over the last few weeks . |