Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As right-wing politicians proclaim that the school curriculum must help children understand Britain 's ‘ place in the world ’ , the virtues of defence or popular capitalism , their left-wing counterparts maintain that schools should concern themselves with issues like the role of the police in contemporary society , homosexuality and the rights of cultural and ethnic minorities . |
| 2 | The curriculum should help learners acquire and develop ( i ) knowledge and conceptual understanding , ( ii ) skills , ( iii ) personal qualities and attitudes , so that they will be able ( iv ) to take advantage of opportunities and cope with challenges in the various circumstances of their present and future lives — to enable and encourage them to contribute responsibly and constructively to society ( in its various facets ) and so that their personal lives may be enriched . |
| 3 | No vet trying to build up a practice ought to let pride overcome his or her business sense . ’ |
| 4 | Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient . |
| 5 | Taxes raised on what is reckoned to be the world 's largest untaxed industry would help governments spend money on treatment and education , which would do more good than the billions currently spent on attempting to throttle the criminal supply of drugs of all sorts . |
| 6 | Equally important , this redesign would make repair work a one-man operation . |
| 7 | Law : Why we must tame the state Leviathan : Greater use of judicial review would help people fight bad decisions by public bodies , Anthony Lester says |
| 8 | He now hopes that the housing guidelines will help others grow up too . |
| 9 | Your vote will go help pick the winners of the seventh annual Daily Mirror British Video Awards . |
| 10 | It is difficult to see how avoiding teaching about what is distinctive of religion can help people gain an understanding of it ! |
| 11 | People like Masklin and Angalo and Gurder can make people listen to them , but you do n't seem to keep their attention . ’ |
| 12 | The book , inspired by the Swiss educational theorist Jean Piaget , describes how contact with computers can help children develop a sense ‘ of the deepest ideas from science , from mathematics , and from the art of intellectual model building ’ . |
| 13 | New studies show that office air-conditioning can make workers feel physically ill when they return to their desks , according to an Australian university professor of health education , Ronald Laura . |
| 14 | Such methods can help individuals gain greater personal insight , but I doubt that individual insight , personality matching , or even exercises in group dynamics can produce much in the way of organizational change or an overall improvement in leadership effectiveness . |
| 15 | With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls . |
| 16 | There would be a rise of some 20,000 in the number of retail jobs — because more small shopkeepers could make ends meet — but shopworkers ' average annual wages would fall by £170 , for they would miss out on higher Sunday pay-rates . |
| 17 | She could not believe it , not because she was not used to getting flowers from men [ she and her charm could make men act on impulse ] , but she felt she had done nothing out of the ordinary to merit it . |
| 18 | The government will now do its best to ensure that Norway holds its referendum after those of Sweden and Finland , in the hope that Yes votes in those countries would make Norwegians think twice before joining the Icelanders as the only Nordics to stay out of the EC . |
| 19 | UEFA 's appeals committee will hear Tbilisi deny that they tried to bribe the referee and linesmen before the first leg in Georgia three weeks ago . |
| 20 | United supporters in Stand B will see prices fall from £15 to £14 , with season ticket holders in the Kop and Lowfields seeing prices rise from £135 to £140 an increase of 3.7pc . |
| 21 | JS WILL LET CUSTOMERS DECIDE OVER WHALE CULLS PROTEST |
| 22 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package . |
| 23 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package . |
| 24 | This article describes how the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland can help companies develop their export potential through improved market intelligence and research , market visits and product development and design . |
| 25 | Maria Callias , a psychologist who has studied peer relationships , says that parents can help children avoid getting into a pattern of unhealthy relationships . |
| 26 | Parents can let youngsters play with the water without fear of an accident . |
| 27 | The underlying assumption of the project is that certain computer-based experiences can help pupils bridge the gap between arithmetical and algebraic thinking . |
| 28 | Some folk can make plants thrive in the most unusual circumstances , while with others , plants remain static and unresponsive to the processes of growth and life . |
| 29 | Part of the Stockton Backs Enterprise initiative other events today include a talk on how Cleveland County Council can help companies find business premises and negotiate a lease . |
| 30 | We believe that the analysis of these four cornerstones can help women transform themselves into subjects of their own reality . |