Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by a commission of church historians published on Jan. 6 claimed that high-level French Roman Catholic clergy had helped protect the suspected war criminal Paul Touvier for almost 45 years during which he succeeded in winning a brief pardon in 1971 . |
| 2 | There is substantial evidence that the Contras have helped finance their war by large-scale drug-trafficking to the US , although the Iran-Contra hearings conspicuously avoided any public probing into this can of worms . |
| 3 | On April 16 , US officials confirmed that a limited number of US troops had helped distribute relief supplies to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq as part of " Operation Provide Relief " . |
| 4 | According to the Financial Times of Oct. 18 , the formal approval by ministers of the US decision to scrap battlefield nuclear weapons had helped postpone the airing of differences over the deployment of tactical air-to-surface missiles ( TASM ) which a number of NATO 's European partners , especially Germany , were reluctant to accept [ see also pp. 36476-77 ; 37931 ; 38457-58 ] . |
| 5 | Separate Israeli-Lebanese and Israeli-Syrian meetings finally began late in the evening of Nov. 3 , after US and Arab diplomats had helped resolve disagreements over procedure between Israeli and Syrian representatives . |
| 6 | A number of other arguments have helped dissuade Lord Young and his colleagues from publishing the report : |
| 7 | By keeping double taxation to a minimum and cracking down on phoney transfer pricing , these international arrangements have helped boost the efficient allocation of capital worldwide . |
| 8 | Tests on existing family members have helped locate the gene to a region of chromosome 17 . |
| 9 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |
| 10 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |
| 11 | But cost controls have helped offset the worst effects of the downturn , says chairman Sir Roy Watts . |
| 12 | At the very centre of the ‘ precinct ’ ( pedestrianised in the 1960s ) , the architects have let rip with yards of steel rails , attached to posts and festooned with lights , encircling a ‘ performance area ’ . |
| 13 | CHILDREN have helped create a green oasis in the heart of an industrial pollution blackspot . |
| 14 | Repeated cases have convinced SAVE that allowing permission for development in the grounds of country houses must be strongly resisted . |
| 15 | Although some Treasury ministers have hinted that economic recovery is in sight , no one on the Government benches has dared predict when unemployment will cease its remorseless rise . |
| 16 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |
| 17 | PUB regulars have helped fulfil the last wishes of a friend who died from cancer . |