Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 ( Even if the activities do present curbs on the rights of the general public to go about their business , street action might still be justified where , for example , it brings to public consciousness some injustice that would not otherwise receive a public hearing . )
2 Certainly , the activities do focus concentration and energy , but I also use these activities diagnostically , to give myself time and space to assess the class , to learn about their social health ; they help me feel comfortable with the class , and that is important .
3 Unfortunately , Brabin , J. then introduced an element of uncertainty by continuing to say , ‘ If I am wrong and the defence does apply then I have to decide , have the defendants proved ( the burden being on them ) that the best practicable means has been taken ? ’
4 Must be pleased , as was Ken Vasey we spoke to earlier , that you did n't concede a goal for the second game in succession , and the defence does look a lot tighter does n't it ?
5 And in the income does hire refer to hire of this room ?
6 The group of Ostriches in the park do breed .
7 Cert certainly the the opportunity does appear to be er huge in the the practices the medical practices .
8 This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow .
9 In British Airways staff and their representatives were offered the opportunity to help generate ideas , and this resulted in very imaginative ways of reducing the cost of employing people without necessarily making them redundant or reducing their income .
10 Eight people each with different views who fail to cohere or who simply proceed by letting the majority view prevail ( as in voting ) are a group ( ie a collection of individuals ) not a team .
11 When the majority does speak , it becomes a mob .
12 These are all concerns central to our own current culture , and the essays help detail some of Shakespeare 's negotiations with us as well as the possible ‘ social energy ’ of his own era .
13 From then on , ANDES has worked with the campesino , worker , student and shanty-town sectors in the BPR to help create the mass political opposition which now confronts the regime .
14 Although the council pays for pupils ' season tickets , parents are entitled to the refund to help cover the costs of alternative transport .
15 I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm .
16 William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason .
17 But on the subject of women , the Prince did take his honorary grandfather 's advice .
18 In doing this , he takes us over the ground first , telling us what to expect , what to look for , so that when the hurricane does hit it hits us harder :
19 Only briefly at the end of the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s did average earnings rise significantly above the all-industry average .
20 If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation .
21 But what the change does do is to reflect , rather more accurately than the previous arrangements , the various sizes of the electorates in the European countries and that is the logic and the sense behind it .
22 Like our own superstores , they stock a much wider range of goods than the warehouses , but experts say supermarkets in Britain should be worried if the clubs do take off here .
23 One area where the accounts do show some growth , though , is in special projects .
24 However , the accounts do reveal the operation of a different form of response in these instances , expressed in what we have called a principle of equilibration .
25 The Government is therefore relying on the institutions to help guard against the problems that would be caused by any variations in regional demand from the small investor .
26 The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research .
27 If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament .
28 The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours .
29 The DNSF did win the vote , however , on simultaneous legislative and presidential elections , whereas Petre Roman 's rival National Salvation Front had called for separate election dates .
30 A side effect of such a procedure would be to strengthen the position of the individual auditor both in relation to his clients and to his ‘ partner equivalents ’ ; in today 's highly competitive audit market , the auditor does encounter clients who exert considerable pressure to accept controversial accounting practices .
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