Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He engages a top-class consultant to help facilitate the iii-depth debate on critical strategic issues ; for example , employee relations , or management style , or systems policy . |
| 2 | The designer uses the o to help design the other letters : first to define the shoulder of the n ; from that , the h . |
| 3 | Anthony 's purpose in offering the above categories was to help answer the following question : how , if at all , should business organizations be distinguished from other organisations for the purpose of setting accounting standards ? |
| 4 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 5 | To help guarantee the new loans , the World Bank , the IMF and Japan 's government stumped up $3.9 billion of new money . |
| 6 | The only reason I make the point is that I understand ATP have rejected an appeal by the LTA to help guarantee the long term future of the November indoor tournament in Birmingham by lowering the $600,000 prize money to around the $300,000 on offer at the two competing tournaments in Moscow and Sao Paolo that week . |
| 7 | If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all . |
| 8 | This reform , though of crucial importance in countering the current distortion in the job market towards part-time employment , does nothing to help eradicate the high marginal rates of tax faced by people leaving unemployment and gaining work , or of low-paid workers striving to gain real increases in their net take home pay . |
| 9 | The survey also shows , however , that the Chancellor could sweeten the pill by extending the time limit on capital allowances to help counter the late payment of debts . |
| 10 | It is part of ‘ a teacher 's checklist ’ designed to help identify the gifted child in the classroom . |
| 11 | In the first City Challenge scheme it was promised cash to help revitalise the eastern side of the town ; now the borough council , residents and local companies have drawn up similar plans to improve central and western areas . |
| 12 | Thus the axiomatic method was called upon to help confirm the basic consistency of mathematics . |
| 13 | It is hoped that this information can be used to help shorten the average length of detention for those who want to go home quickly . |
| 14 | This means that any water vapour would turn to ice , because its low gravity would only retain a tenuous atmosphere with very little carbon dioxide to help trap the much-reduced solar warmth . |
| 15 | The Japanese Cabinet on Sept. 8 approved the dispatch of some 1,800 Self-Defence Force personnel to Cambodia to assist with UN peacekeeping operations over the coming year , and to send a handful of observers to help monitor the general election in Angola . |
| 16 | In November 1963 , President Kennedy visited Texas to help unite the warring factions in the Democratic Party in that key southern state . |
| 17 | Its importance as a fore-runner was due less to its political ideas than to its military discipline and its administrative personnel , who were later to help organize the day-to-day running of the BUF . |
| 18 | You 're over here to help organize the royal visit . ’ |
| 19 | The media was only lightly rinsed to help reseed the new filter . |
| 20 | Of course , there may be historic data available from outside the corporate group which can be used to help formulate the required yield for a new area that the group is entering , but suppose that this is not the situation . |
| 21 | Dreamflight was the brainchild of British Airways colleagues Patricia Pearce and Derek Pereira back in 1986 , and has now grown into a ‘ roadshow ’ of 350 adults working around the clock to help ease the physical pain suffered by their young charges . |
| 22 | By the end of the fifties , Washington had agree to help improve the Iranian armed forces more rapidly , but American military aid was still far less than the Shah wanted . |
| 23 | On Nov. 16 Vellayati restated his proposal of Sept. 30 in more specific form in order " to help break the present artificial impasse which benefits no-one " . |
| 24 | I 'm there to help beat the other man . |
| 25 | We believe a parallel unit is desperately required in the Welsh Office to help ensure the wise use of our valuable coastal resources . |
| 26 | Reg apparently came most Sunday afternoons to help welcome the anxious new arrivals . |
| 27 | The Tyne lifeboat was called to help bring the stricken vessel to the quay . |
| 28 | Grants to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by volunteers in geological conservation work have been announced by English Nature — the English branch of the now disbanded Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 29 | Helen Pearson , lecturer in medical education at the University of Leicester , has introduced a scheme whereby SIFT money ( service increment for teaching ; the additional resources provided by the NHS to help offset the extra costs of providing health care in a teaching hospital ) is allocated to hospital departments in proportion to the amount of actual teaching that students receive . |
| 30 | The residents wanted to continue barter deals with RSFSR traffic to help offset the sharp price increases . |