Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A genre that had grown out of the need for sensationalism did seem to be striking chords at a time of economic insecurity when cities seemed places of dislocation and when , if nothing else , there was a curiosity about how law-breakers operated . |
| 2 | Dr. Tomlin has written a letter to Mr Gorbachev explaining about his hunger strike , and asking for support to help make him a Czech national again . |
| 3 | — THE organisers of National Music Day are looking for clubs to help make the occasion a big success . |
| 4 | Labour advocated measures such as nationalisation to help run the economy more efficiently and provide full employment with prosperity . |
| 5 | He 's promising instead to unveil a subscription scheme for supporters to help pay for ground improvements demanded by the Taylor report . |
| 6 | Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments . |
| 7 | King Moshoeshoe , prior to his removal from power , had paid a two-day state visit to Zimbabwe on Oct. 28-29 , 1989 , during which he appealed for aid to help reduce Lesotho 's economic dependence on South Africa . |
| 8 | Other stars have donated items for auction to help buy a dialysis machine for their local hospital , but Elton 's gift was a surprise . |
| 9 | High-yield-bond sales through Drexel helped finance the acquisitions that have turned Hasbro into America 's biggest toy company . |
| 10 | But Brockweir school in the Forest of Dean did close , because of lack of support , although some parents are now petitioning the county council to sell it to them so it can re-open . |
| 11 | On the face of the facts given , the inspector of taxes does appear to be ‘ turning a text into a pretext ’ . |
| 12 | The large values for Ct in the early periods of play do speed the rate at which the B t 's learn from the signal extraction process ( 4 ) . |
| 13 | In the less fertile north and central regions , where peasant trade and crafts developed most rapidly , a measure of differentiation did develop as successful petty peasant entrepreneurs hired their fellows . |
| 14 | However , there is no doubt that the majority of authorities do favour an examination of reasonableness at the time of contracting . |
| 15 | Er , what kind of checks to do have , do you have to keep on that ? |
| 16 | A COMPANY owned by the Ministry of Defence helped build a weapons facility in Iraq which could be used to support Exocet missiles , the Scott arms-to-Iraq inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 17 | This method of printing does allow you to make use of the " Printer Filter " , but as the complexity of the line to be printed increases , this method becomes more difficult . |
| 18 | One focus of discontent did raise the issue onto a more general level when it was argued that it was the southern origins of the planning officials which.were responsible for their unsympathetic approach to Orkney 's housing preferences . |
| 19 | Bond 's technical wizard Q ( Desmond Llewellyn ) and new assistant Eve Barker , from BBC 's Born Kicking , realise the security implications and come out from the shadowy world of espionage to help publicise them . |
| 20 | Happily , happily the statement of faith does seem to have commended itself to a much larger number of presbyteries and kirk sessions and many indeed hundreds hundreds took the trouble to offer amendments and improvements to it . |
| 21 | In the Cox Report we repeated the belief of many teachers of English that the study of literature does foster intelligence and sensibility , as Leavis so passionately argued . |
| 22 | Er , which of course does show the relative height of the new houses , against |
| 23 | Empathy of course does have limits . |
| 24 | What the chemical structure of course does determine is the temperature at which the glassy state passes into the rubbery and , if the cross-linking is insufficient to prevent it , further passes from the rubbery to the liquid-like state . |
| 25 | Many of course did marry and stay abroad . |
| 26 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 27 | Now the consequence of the fact that the dollar end of June er relatively strong at around one sixty of course did impinge on er our er borrowings since we do have a considerable percentage of our gross in dollar terms and if we turn to the next slide er we can see er the summary of the balance sheet at thirtieth of June . |
| 28 | This of course helped make sure that people of established wealth did not go to the colonies . |
| 29 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 30 | Many polytechnics of course do have user education written into the overall aims of the library service ( eg Hatfield Polytechnic Library ) . |