Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But RSI sufferes who 're hoping for some compensation from their employers are worried the Judge 's ruling may make harm their chances . |
| 2 | Stephen Baxter is an emerging British author of good hard sf , and Timelike Infinity ( HarperCollins , £4.99 ) should help confirm his status . |
| 3 | Moving away from the mainly blood and guts stuff , this is a more involved horror thriller which should help expand his market . |
| 4 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 5 | If you mean business , we 'll help make your entrepreneurial dreams come true |
| 6 | Turn the page and we 'll help turn your dream into a reality . |
| 7 | So an award by the company to the catering industry , which was approved by the Health Offices , might help achieve your goal . |
| 8 | In dry parts of the world , such as Australia , forest and bush fires are an important natural hazard and some attention has been given to the ways in which GIS might help examine their potential impacts . |
| 9 | It sounded risky but it might help take his mind off not being able to meet the Bookman . |
| 10 | I said we could get get our house inside it . |
| 11 | So there was a restlessness that could help explain his proneness to melancholia , and at the same time account for the extraordinary enthusiasm with which , in later life , he identified himself with the people of different parts of the Mediterranean coastline in turn : Greeks , Italians , Jews , Arabs . |
| 12 | Taking on part-time jobs could help pay their way without relying totally on parents and the state for financial support . |
| 13 | I wondered if anybody out there could help enhance my armoury ? |
| 14 | Yet , it could help bring his wishes closer , lass . |
| 15 | ‘ I could help take your mind off the unpleasantness . ’ |
| 16 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 17 | I used to help make their household bread : two hundred loaves at the time , three times a week . |
| 18 | We actually believe that the people of would prefer prefer their money spending on the environment and front end services . |
| 19 | We actually believe that the people of would prefer prefer their money spending on the environment and front end services . |
| 20 | Oh I do n't think anybody would beat beat my cat 's coat though . |
| 21 | He had never dreamed that his enemy would dare show his face in the army , and Lord John 's presence seemed evidence to Sharpe of just how the cavalryman must despise him . |
| 22 | Who would dare incur our displeasure ? |
| 23 | I doubt whether a girl would dare tell her parents , let alone take the matter to court . |
| 24 | Besides the fact that Mittwoch scuttles her own argument by citing examples such as No newspaper would dare publish his denial where " dare shows modal characteristics precisely in governing the bare infinitive … , yet it is governed by another modal " ( p. 128 ) , and the fact that treating to as a modal auxiliary is in itself highly implausible , this analysis simply begs the question of whether there is a semantic motivation behind the absence of to here . |
| 25 | Judge Smith formerly chairman of the Rules Committee was a man greatly feared by his colleagues , but no chairman would dare follow his example in the congress of today . |
| 26 | There is n't an inn or any other eating house come to that , which would dare close its doors against him or his guests . |
| 27 | ‘ The strictest autonomy governs the ghetto ; no German would dare touch my prerogatives , and I shall never let any do so . ’ |
| 28 | Either he would lose Doctor Who , in which case his small Department would save themselves a very large overhead , or the BBC would let go its purse strings a little and permit Kine to take on more staff and resources to handle such a project . |
| 29 | Then slowly , reluctantly almost , they would rise into the air and Rob would let go his breath , and his flight engineer would say , ‘ Bloody lovely , ’ as he always did . |
| 30 | Mal Duff and Mike Smith would help carry their equipment , reduced to oxygen and the flimsy inner skin of a tent . |