Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We will also look at a simple form of self-massage to help banish cellulite . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 7 | It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world . |
| 8 | Although glasses in general do have a definite local structure their overall structure is disordered . |
| 9 | Existence is not a " property of concepts " ( qua functions ) ; although ontological claims in general do entail claims about concepts . |
| 10 | Hotels in particular do require special attention . |
| 11 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |