Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SMART is an award open to companies of 50 employees or less to help develop innovative technology . |
| 2 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 3 | The Branches have to depend upon the voluntary support of the membership to fulfil what many see as their prime role , and where once the polytechnics were able heavily to subsidise a service of CPD seminars or even help run an ‘ in-house ’ programme , they can no longer operate in this way and have to charge for the events on a full cost basis . |
| 4 | ‘ As for any home , I 've none , nor never did have , ’ she said quickly to distract him from too much thinking . |
| 5 | ‘ The package is the council 's direct response to the need to provide women with sensible and practical advice on personal safety , and importantly to help reduce the fear of crime . |
| 6 | Rather than revel in the recovery in house prices , therefore , a bold government would act now to prevent the next house-price boom , and thereby help make the longed-for economic recovery more durable . |
| 7 | Needless to stress the point , it is a resource eagerly used to punish and deter actual and potential resisters and thereby help protect the established social order ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | Recent scientific research has shown that Equi-Strath , a herbal food preparation will help maintain the body 's immune defence system and thereby help maintain vitality and assist the performance of the working horse . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , because this tradition tended to ignore the problem of consumption , the main impact of this craft revival was to promote a conspicuous handmade image , explicitly separate from the products of mass consumption , and immediately recognized as a quality or luxury product which signified , and thereby helped reproduce , the new moneyed elites . |
| 10 | Charlie felt he had suffered enough insults for one day and suddenly let rip , ‘ Sergeant Trumper , 7312087 . |
| 11 | It 's a question that their parents may also be unable to answer , so it 's important that students be given some idea of what it 's like to earn one 's living creatively as early as possible , and so help dispel some of the fear and disbelief that discussions about this ‘ odd ’ way of working always seem to produce . |
| 12 | Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing . |
| 13 | Often members of my slimming classes have been referred to me by their doctors , anxious for their patients to reduce their weight and so help reduce their blood pressure . |
| 14 | The function of music now was to express pure feeling on an ideal , unverbalizable , metaphysical level ( Schopenhauer 's influence is plain ) ; the task of the poetic word was to reinterpret that " feeling " in terms of " thought " and so help mediate the metaphysical world to an earth-bound , concept-bound audience . |
| 15 | These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition . |
| 16 | ‘ Cool guys think it 's great and so do cool girls , too . |
| 17 | ‘ Cool guys think it 's great and so do cool girls , too . |
| 18 | Hence if there is unanticipated inflation , real wages fall , and so do output costs ; the supply curve of output therefore shifts outwards temporarily . |
| 19 | In the 80s , shares reached record heights and so did skirt lengths . |
| 20 | Between 1986 and 1989 the prices of the country 's two main exports , coffee and cocoa , halved , and so did export earnings from them , to $776 million from $1.5 billion . |
| 21 | The centres will be able to look at all aspects of energy use in a society , and perhaps help convince people with very different interests . |
| 22 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 23 | Weighting the footrest still further increases grip by counteracting the tyre 's tendency to sideslip and crucially helps move the machine upright where the tyre contact patch is larger , offering improved grip and predictability . |
| 24 | The feeling is that the clubhead gets through beyond impact and literally does pull the right foot and right leg on through to make a finish . |
| 25 | against the queen , her blood , adherents and affinity , which have intended and daily doth intend to murder and utterly destroy us and our cousin , the duke of Buckingham , and the old royal blood of this realm and , as is now openly known , by their subtle and damnable ways forecasted the same , and also the final destruction and disinheritance of you and all other the inheritors and men of honour , as well of the north parts as other countries that belong [ to ] us . |
| 26 | against the queen , her blood , adherents and affinity , which have intended and daily doth intend to murder and utterly destroy us and our cousin , the duke of Buckingham , and the old royal blood of this realm and , as is now openly known , by their subtle and damnable ways forecasted the same , and also the final destruction and disinheritance of you and all other the inheritors and men of honour , as well of the north parts as other countries that belong [ to ] us . |
| 27 | Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go . |
| 28 | I had misunderstood the name of the film , and not dared ask too many questions . |
| 29 | This will improve the set of tools available to researchers studying the impacts of technical change and financial innovation and thus help isolate the underlying parameters of economic behaviour . |
| 30 | There is evidence that ions and electrons are exchanged between Io and the Jovian atmosphere , constituting massive electric currents that could help heat Io and thus help maintain its volcanic activity . |