Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the tricks are familiar , though technically superior to the original , but Sonic 2 does boast new features ( corkscrew loop-the-loops , a 3D race between Sonic and Tails , a new gimmick which allows Sonic to ‘ warp through time ’ ) . |
| 2 | Observations No 2 does give some answers ( as to which college library facilities are open to teachers doing research for example ) . |
| 3 | Despite this , the SGA 1979 does make some attempt to deal with the Scottish dilemma vis à vis non-possessory security interests through the insertion of s61(4) of the 1893 Act ( now s62(4) of the 1979 Act ) , a provision specifically drafted for Scotland but which also applies to England . |
| 4 | The NEB was created by the government in 1975 to help restructure British industry by selective intervention , particularly in areas of high unemployment . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , it would be misleading to conclude from the relative momentum of change in the three companies that RX alone represents success , not least because all three did achieve significant business turnaround as a result of organizational realignment . |
| 6 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 7 | MINTEC was established in 1964 to help revitalise British industry through the application of technology . |
| 8 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 9 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 10 | Company 1 does have lower costs but has a flatter experience curve than the declining price schedule . |
| 11 | But the two communications from " Ella , typelifter " in 1886 do sound authentic and throw a little light on what women may have thought about the central issues here : their being employed as cheap labour and the question of skill . |
| 12 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 13 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 14 | Section 9 does have one exception to this : |
| 15 | Turning to company data , the fact that five leading US investment banks had post tax returns on average equity of 26% in 1982 does suggest high profitability ( Table 5.11 ) . |
| 16 | They will ask Western governments for £150 million to help improve anti-XXXX poaching activities , protect national parks , and promote development projects which allow local people to benefit from conservation . |
| 17 | The Countryside Commission is to receive £7.3 million for footpath clearing and hedgerow restoration work ; the Rural Development Commission £4.3 million to help create rural employment opportunities , while English Nature will receive additional funding for incentive schemes to protect the wider countryside . |
| 18 | The Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh was quoted by Tehran Radio on Aug. 10 as saying that German and Italian banks had agreed to lend Iran US$856 million to help finance petrochemical projects . |
| 19 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |
| 20 | The profiles shown in Figure 3.3 do indicate such a curve for men and for women in the early stages of their working careers . |