Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [vb infin] " 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 | However , the unwanted takeover bid for Imperial did materialise , as had been rumoured , from Hanson Trust ( subsequently renamed Hanson ) , the largest conglomerate company in the UK , which also had substantial interests in the US . |
| 3 | We will also look at a simple form of self-massage to help banish cellulite . |
| 4 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 5 | Miraculously much of this does get done , but there are few teachers , if any , who can walk out the gates at four o'clock , knowing they are up-to-date , |
| 6 | Yet the treaty of 1259 did introduce a momentous change into the relations between the two powers . |
| 7 | It may be true that concepts and factual propositions are subject to change and have no consequences until engaged by someone 's mind , but it is also true that some transmission of knowing does take place , and that a facility with , or mastery of , those concepts and propositions is necessary to further development . |
| 8 | Despite this difference , the plot of 587 does help illuminate the crisis of two years before . |
| 9 | But once the first of these did arrive , Edward Plantagenet lost no time in testing their quality . |
| 10 | They have a staff of three to help administer Koraloona . |
| 11 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 12 | His father died suddenly and Swindin had to leave school and start work at the age of fourteen to help support the family . |
| 13 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 14 | A bowl of fruit in your room , a bottle of wine , a special meal or commemorative glass of bubbly to help celebrate your great occasions . |
| 15 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 16 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |
| 17 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 18 | Of course a scheme like this does incur considerable costs , but it will be for the benefit of the town and help to preserve a record of a popular part of Bishop 's Castle 's history , while we still have people who remember ‘ our ’ railway and travelled on it . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , incidents like this do put your blood pressure up . |
| 20 | Er also feel that the people the companies are not making services actually got because they were against these making go out in the evenings because the last bus leaves the town centre at six thirty . |
| 21 | Recipe Maker is an application designed for windows 3.0 or above that helps make the weekly meal planning , grocery shopping and recipe organising much easier . |
| 22 | For it costs money to immunise needy children , investigate AIDS and treat TB , train more minimum wage workers to break out of poverty and help the displaced , including those let go from a shrinking military . |
| 23 | THREE INTO ONE DOES GO |
| 24 | The planks need a bearing of only 50 — 75mm each side , with one or two ventilation holes of about 25mm diameter bored in each to help keep the pit aired it 's covered . |
| 25 | The two main beneficiaries are the local Sue Ryder Home and the Keighley Adult Training Centre for the mentally handicapped , but £2,500 was donated in 1986 to help start a special child development unit at Airedale Hospital . |
| 26 | But the two communications from " Ella , typelifter " in 1886 do sound authentic and throw a little light on what women may have thought about the central issues here : their being employed as cheap labour and the question of skill . |
| 27 | A couple in 1925–29 made do with 2.2 live births . |
| 28 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The wide-ranging package includes a 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax from 1995 to help close the budget deficit resulting from the cost of financing the recovery in the east . |