Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after a fire does require a modicum of attention and responsibility . |
| 2 | Jock Houston , secretary of the Borders branch of the Educational Institute of Scotland , said : ‘ Discontinuing or changing the site of a school does require consultation under 1981 regulations . |
| 3 | Left A soil gas sample is collected as part of a survey to help delineate a plume of pollution caused by a volatile organic compound that had migrated a kilometre through the Chalk aquifer from the site of the original spillage . |
| 4 | It is entirely possible that this mechanism does operate , and that the members of a herd do use these clues when looking at one another . |
| 5 | However people who are not familiar with the culture of a country do misinterpret situations and relationships and this can be due to a misunderstanding of visual clues . |
| 6 | Being master of a college does give one an opportunity to work with whatever forces already exist within the college in order to get things moving . |
| 7 | But the absence of a ceremony does leave a gap , and is disappointing for many grandparents . |
| 8 | The results from the experiment showed that , when pointing , adaptation to prismatic distortion of a target did occur and that it was not due to any learned mechanism . |
| 9 | Although the invoicing system is long redundant , the use of the shilling in the name of a beer does give a useful indication of its strength . |
| 10 | At the same time , contracts in the form of a bailment do raise interesting sale versus security issues ( which will be discussed in the context of retention of title clauses in Chapter 12 ) . |
| 11 | The test of relevance will be whether awareness of a fact does act causally on spontaneous inclination . |
| 12 | Good liaison should also ensure that duplication of content does not occur or that where repetition of a topic does take place , there is a significant variation in the depth , focus and treatment of such a topic . |
| 13 | He had let things take their course , like a rider letting go the reins . |
| 14 | A lettuce leaf in a roll acts like a hand to help hold in moist fillings . |
| 15 | In response , the British Mountaineering Council is proposing a Pen Trwyn style scheme of abseil points and lower-offs , and is to apply to the Sports Council for a grant to help pay for a geological survey of the rock . |
| 16 | Which was good news for START ( Skin Treatment and Research Trust ) as we also asked you for a donation to help START in their research into replacement skin for series skin problems . |
| 17 | Odd-Knut calls for a volunteer to help feed the dogs in the gathering storm and I do n't step back quickly enough . |
| 18 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 19 | Carmen Miranda 's image was deliberately used as a vehicle to help consolidate a commercial mnage trois between the Brazilian singer , the US-Latin American ‘ good neighbour ’ policy and the banana . |
| 20 | Carmen Miranda 's image was deliberately used as a vehicle to help consolidate a commercial mnage trois between the Brazilian singer , the US-Latin American ‘ good neighbour ’ policy and the banana . |
| 21 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 22 | Mitch Cook 's free-kick was hacked clear to Steve O'Shaughnessy on the edge of the box , where the Bradford old boy he was released by them as a youngster let fly with a powerful right-foot shot which Bradford keeper Paul Tomlinson allowed to slip under his body . |
| 23 | AN ex-soldier was used as a heavy to help persuade an Indian bullion dealer to pay money owed to Earl Spencer 's best man , a court was told yesterday . |
| 24 | It is usually the experimental scientist who seizes on a theory as a tool to help interpret the properties of systems inaccessible by experiment . |
| 25 | secondly , our reading of the way that professionals and people with learning difficulties are working towards recreating the relationship between them , including an outline of a support structure developed recently by the authors ( Brechin and Swain , 1986 , 1987 ) designed as a tool to help shape a more equal relationship , or ‘ a working alliance ’ as it has been described elsewhere ( Deffenbacher , 1985 ; Egan , 1986 ) ; |
| 26 | It is important that you complete this , as it acts as a trigger to help speed up payment of your benefits . |
| 27 | ‘ Semantic tagging ’ would involve providing each word in a particular text with a tag to help disambiguate its meaning , in the same way as a dictionary distinguishes between , say , ‘ foot-body part ’ and ‘ foot-unit of measurement ’ . |
| 28 | Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment . |
| 29 | Thieves broke into Wesley Court , off Wesley Street , on Saturday , just hours before a tombola to help replace a stolen karaoke machine and cash . |
| 30 | And I think the way forward is perhaps to have a meeting with R and D and for them to come to us and discuss with us the aspects of work that we will not be in a position to do come the revolution . |