Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So this might help tip the balance . |
| 32 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 33 | We tried to draw out the kind of changes that might help make the whole thing happen . |
| 34 | A typical test in its most basic application might help identify the extent to which you use and prefer : |
| 35 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 36 | From both departments he received information that might help free the Stone family from harassment . |
| 37 | ‘ That sort of route would be impractical but it might help solve the exessses that a small minority of anglers get up to . ’ |
| 38 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 39 | I think you 'd do leave the bits |
| 40 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 41 | We never thought they 'd dare put the bodies there . |
| 42 | Once I talked with a doctor about one such personality , asking if in his opinion X did not need psychiatric help , just so he could let go a little . |
| 43 | The talkative bird , which is worth £300 , could let slip the name of one of its captors or even an address which could provide detectives with vital clues . |
| 44 | The yen 's rise could help trim the trade surplus in the long run as it could make U.S. exporters more competitive , although in the short-term that could help lift the amount of exports in dollar terms from Japan . |
| 45 | We examined the immunoreactivity of a large range of tumour marker antisera in a series of adenocarcinomas and their respective metastases to determine whether patterns of reactivity could help identify the primary sites of metastases and to assess the clinical value of this system as a routine method of investigation . |
| 46 | Meanwhile , police hope that family snapshots could help identify the bombers . |
| 47 | This could help deter the casual visitor . |
| 48 | Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive . |
| 49 | PRESIDENT Bush suggested yesterday that a US decision to return millions of dollars in frozen assets to Iran could help secure the eventual release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 50 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 51 | The idea of types could help organize the science ; and the exemplars of the type were often called ‘ representatives ’ . |
| 52 | For the working-class child correct physical development could help eliminate the immoral effects of a dissolute culture or unhealthy environment , contributing to a gradual improvement of national physique . |
| 53 | But most important of all , such centres could help spread the message that the western way of life need not be a model for all development . |
| 54 | On that basis , production should be increased with the hope of more jobs and increased business for ailing industries — which could help kick-start the economy . |
| 55 | Its aim was to provide a convivial meeting place where the enlightened could help formulate a programme to teach the uninitiated the nature of the enemy which was undermining the country . |
| 56 | The rioting underlined continuing political and security problems facing the allies , who arrived ten weeks ago to end devastating clan warfare so that relief agencies could help ease a famine that threatened millions of lives . |
| 57 | The rioting underlined continuing political and security problems facing the allies , who arrived ten weeks ago to end devastating clan warfare so that relief agencies could help ease a famine that threatened millions of lives . |
| 58 | A report on Portugal published in February by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said early entry into the mechanism ‘ could help ease the costs of lowering its inflation rate ’ , which at 11.4 p.c. last year was one of the highest in Europe . |
| 59 | That could help prevent the children falling into the same cycle of problems which put their fathers here in the first place |
| 60 | Eventually she had been sent to a psychiatrist to see if he could help discover the reason for what appeared to be a purely psychosomatic condition . |