Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spinner Nick Cook 's four for 22 helped restrict the Welshmen to 169 for nine but Northants were made to sweat before gaining victory despite solid knocks from Robin Bailey ( 49 ) and David Capel ( 47 ) . |
| 2 | BRITISH fighter pilots could be patrolling the skies over Bosnia within days after the Government yesterday made it clear it was willing to help enforce the United Nations no-fly zone . |
| 3 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 4 | This helped transform a small disturbance into a full-blown campaign . |
| 5 | AU this helped provide a favourable climate for imperial sport — Test matches , rugby tours , and ultimately the institution of the Empire Games itself . |
| 6 | This helped pave the way for the full-blooded domestication of the idea of Empire at the popular imperial exhibitions held first at Wembley and later in Glasgow between the wars . |
| 7 | Mendel points out that this helped pave the way for economic crises that aggravated social discontent before 1905 . |
| 8 | This helped persuade the Government to take action altering tax incentives for planting in the 1988 Budget . |
| 9 | To be mercenary , this helped elevate The Smiths into national notoriety . |
| 10 | This helps eliminate the noise that results from the speedy switching on CMOS devices . |
| 11 | The first thing to say is that the spool is large and ribbed — this helps stop the bedding in of line that can sometimes occur . |
| 12 | All this helps make a good impression on the customer . |
| 13 | ‘ This helps make the gallery seem like a friendly place to them , rather than just somewhere other people go . ’ |
| 14 | This helps facilitate the organisation of labour and the servicing of rooms . |
| 15 | This helps explain the extraordinary spectacle here yesterday of 5,000 loudly ‘ anti-colonial ’ black people clamouring against independence and for political re-integration with South Africa . |
| 16 | All this helps explain the obligatory use of the to infinitive after know in the passive : ( 121 ) Mrs MacAnder was known to contribute articles to " The Ladies ' Kingdom Come " . |
| 17 | But on the other hand this helps avoid the pitfall of showing people with AIDS as passive , somehow guilty victims . |
| 18 | This helps preserve the wood . |
| 19 | This helps preserve the wood . |
| 20 | But the English do have a different culture . |
| 21 | This did affect the Croydon area indirectly , by the withdrawal of tram route 12 . |
| 22 | This did present a problem , as of the three services which the L.C.C . |
| 23 | This did attract the attention of some of the newspaper readers . |
| 24 | De Grazia points out that there was a fundamental transformation in the way the power was exercised and that this did influence the state . |
| 25 | Not long afterwards the Dams Raid took place , and this did hit the headlines and captured the imagination of the public . |
| 26 | And this did raise the whole issue of the future of the sterling area . |
| 27 | His brother , on the other hand — this did seem a little odd , now that I come to think of it — had apparently learnt his German locally ; from his voice I should have said he was Austrian . |
| 28 | This did cut the losses for a while until the Germans devised a method of counteracting it . |
| 29 | Nigel once remarked that if the meek do inherit the earth , I 'll be lucky to get a window box ! |
| 30 | Paper , and parchment before it , have a long shelf life although acid paper used in abundance after the 1830s did contain the seeds of its own destruction . |