Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 2 | no oh I carpets and what have you you know I think you can make do as long as you 've got one , you know why it |
| 3 | Of course Marxists can point to Allende 's subsequent overthrow by the Chilean military to help demonstrate that peaceful socialist transformation will not be permitted . |
| 4 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 5 | Its data-holding potential allows it to be used to help ensure that all pupils are involved in the game as well as the traditional competitive classroom activity , testing . |
| 6 | Representatives of outside organisations must be closely involved in that debate to help ensure that serious regard is paid to the long-term public interest when changes to ethical guidance are considered . |
| 7 | We will also use our presidency to help ensure that poorer countries are not disadvantaged as a result of the Single Market . |
| 8 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 9 | To help sustain that substantial expansion of local government expenditure , the Government have shifted the burden so that central Government now bear up to 89 per cent . |
| 10 | Granted that it had turned out to be only too easy to make experiments in which training an animal on some task results in large biochemical and cellular changes in its brain , I felt that it was necessary to establish guidelines to help judge whether any particular change indeed has these characteristics of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 11 | Americans still had an important role to play in war-ravaged Europe in ensuring that Germany did not again threaten the security of Europe , and in being on hand to help counterbalance if necessary the enigmatic and possibly dangerous USSR . |
| 12 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 13 | Then go over each part of your body in turn , letting go and relaxing — your calves , knees , thighs , hips , abdomen and chest ; your hands , arms , shoulders , neck , face , eyes , brow — even your tongue and scalp . |
| 14 | Also , ’ said Fribble , glancing to the velvet couch beneath the forest window , ‘ also I do think that one of us ought to stay with Fergus . ’ |
| 15 | Jessica I do think that that |
| 16 | Any exhibition is worth going looking at and thinking about , but I do think that that is an extraordinarily bad exhibition . |
| 17 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 18 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 19 | ‘ I do think that this is a very important issue for us in politics . |
| 20 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 21 | And I just want to repeat that I do think that some of the writing that 's come out of it has saved women 's lives . |
| 22 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 23 | legitimate to think that how that they did think that this was a short-term goal in order to achieve their long-term objectives . |
| 24 | However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition : |
| 25 | Taking advantage of the disordered and uncertain state of things it is not surprising that some mineral " owners " felt they ought to have reward for the working of minerals on their land , and there is little doubt that legal issues could and did arise where such " illegal " mining was detected . |
| 26 | There is no question that inequalities in health between rich and poor do exist and that poverty causes ill-health . |
| 27 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
| 28 | I can not profess to know how successful , or otherwise , the mystic 's attempts at transcendence may prove , but I do know that all the anorexic is capable of transcending are her own immediate difficulties and that , in most cases , this achievement is comparatively short-lived . |
| 29 | I do need , er , I do know that that the conflict between government , local government , the voluntary sector and all others who have an interest , can be quite prodigious , and the ways to resource can be also , quite considerable , and the whole thing does need to be debated and sorted out . |
| 30 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |