Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things , Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits , To practise more than heavenly power permits . |
| 2 | So you see you do get some strange loads . |
| 3 | Amnesty 's major Sri Lanka ( September-December 1990 ) succeeded , against considerable obstacles , in bringing the tragedy of Sri Lanka to the attention of the world , and helped generate some fresh signs of change . |
| 4 | Since the scheme was introduced , £957 million has been made available through it in Scotland to help bring many empty houses back into use and assist in reducing waiting lists . |
| 5 | To help keep these bold bloodsuckers at bay we rubbed wet salt on our boots . |
| 6 | Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution . |
| 7 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 8 | Test-match broadcasting and his writing helped bind many personal wounds . |
| 9 | It was not always easy to concentrate , as distant explosions and nearby arguments in Arabic disturbed our peace , but it was something to help pass many long hours . |
| 10 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 11 | The mass picket helped justify such subsequent developments as more mobile squads of police , greater mutual aid between forces and the introduction of the Employment Act 1980 which outlawed secondary picketing and allowed the police to determine the maximum size of the picket . |
| 12 | Structure exists at various levels of consciousness ( or unconsciousness ) and although its relationship to mundane ‘ reality ’ ( the Marxist ‘ infrastructure ’ whose ultimate importance Lévi-Strauss periodically acknowledges ) is often tangential and tenuous , it helps resolve such fundamental contradictions and antinomies as that between nature and culture , self-interest and the common good , and , more immediately , certain basic conflicts inherent in particular forms of social organization . |
| 13 | In a bizarre interview , Lindi St Clair , alias Miss Whiplash , lets slip some titillating details about her accountant clients . |
| 14 | A fabulous package which helps organise those chaotic lists of ideas or prioritised jobs . |
| 15 | You do think those bloody stairs |
| 16 | Frolik certainly did expose some real spies including Nicholas Praeger , who had given the Czechs details of the RAF 's electronic counter-measures equipment codenamed Blue Diver and Red Steer . |
| 17 | It seems that Freud did regard most religious beliefs as unjustified by experience and by reason , and that they therefore required an explanation in terms of psychoanalysis . |
| 18 | Of course there do exist many positive individuals , schools and authorities . |
| 19 | Despite Wilkinson 's attempts to moderate criticism of the Area Board 's policies , and a trade unionist member 's introduction of some woolliness in the text to accommodate his dislike of any rationing by the purse , the committee 's report , submitted to Gaitskell in June , did make some strong proposals . |
| 20 | ‘ In retrospect we did make some questionable decisions , ’ Mr Warren told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 21 | er who 's probably thinking well I do need some new boots for the garden , but er |
| 22 | What is likely to happen of course is that er in the year two thousand and ten when we do need these fast reactors , we 'll be buying in French or Japanese technology as we 've done in many other areas which is all rather sad really . |
| 23 | Although the GHS did include some attitudinal questions , its emphasis was not primarily subjective . |
| 24 | But the stations do demonstrate that architectural influences flowed north and south through the Americas , bending styles derived from Europe to new ends . |
| 25 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 26 | Oh dear , she did need some new ones ! |
| 27 | However , early people did study those heavenly cycles which were easily discernible within their lifespan . |
| 28 | In addition , Compact offers the guarantee of a worthwhile job to students who do achieve these Compact goals . |
| 29 | And yet these mosaics do show some notable similarities to the latter . |
| 30 | Though I am not superstitious or religious in any formal sense , I do feel that certain places that have had working within them strong forces for either good or evil absorb something and retain some of that force . |