Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 2 | It laid down provisions for third world states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and for compensation payments in return for extraction of their genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 3 | In the Netherlands , Wolters-Kluwer Bookshops are extending their range of book stocks with up to 100 CD-ROM titles and have appointed a new media adviser to help them plan future developments . |
| 4 | In fact , though , McGurk and MacDonald ( 1976 ) have shown the extent to which we use information about the position of a speaker 's lips to help us recognise spoken words . |
| 5 | Magazine articles , in an attempt to help us improve that image , advise us to stand sideways on , without our clothes , before a long mirror , and check up honestly on our general shape . |
| 6 | ‘ We would also like to appeal for funds to help us finance this event . |
| 7 | There are particular muscles which seem to carry most of the burden , and it can take several sessions to help them become relaxed . |
| 8 | It called for the appointment of a science adviser at cabinet level and early enough in the new president 's term to help him fill other scientific posts , an expanded Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) and access to expert outside advice . |
| 9 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 10 | After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk . |
| 11 | Surely if I know all this I should be able to put on just enough weight to make me feel comfortable , or at least stop losing any more ? |
| 12 | These are performances to make you forget these are pieces usually treated as potboilers . |
| 13 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 14 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 15 | At Hilton International , it 's our intention to make you feel welcome and at home each and every time you 're our guest . |
| 16 | He does n't come with a lot pious platitudes and and charming words to make us feel better . |
| 17 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 18 | This information is also of interest to all engineers to help them encourage good practice approaches to the identification and assessment of risk issues . |
| 19 | The pupils who come to Learning Support are encouraged to look openly and realistically at their problems and to use departmental resources , staff , accommodation and equipment to help them resolve these problems . |
| 20 | This would be achieved by formulating a convention on climate change , to include legally binding protocols on cutting emissions of gases which contributed to global warming , and provisions for industrialized countries to provide financial and technical assistance to Third-World countries to help them achieve this without forgoing the benefits of industrial development . |
| 21 | There are plenty of papers and books and guidance from the URC to help you do that . |
| 22 | By the way , you should ask Chief Wetherby to let you watch next time a submarine comes back from patrol . |
| 23 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 24 | No , there 's nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better about yourself . |
| 25 | At least Ferdinando now knew a great deal of English , whatever she had said to Pen to make him feel important . |
| 26 | He took from it a ten-shilling note which he placed on the tea-chest , smoothing out the folds to make it lie flat . |
| 27 | Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines . |
| 28 | Was this a deliberate campaign to make me feel small ? |
| 29 | SunPro , Sun Microsystems Inc 's software development operation , is bringing in Russian software expertise to help it develop compiler-level products which will improve the performance of applications running on Sparc RISC-based systems . |
| 30 | It is clear that practitioners need a framework to help them manage this process , to produce a degree of consistency of purpose , scope , and content of assessment across different practitioners , whilst also enabling the assessment process to be adapted flexibly to individual people and their circumstances . |