Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately , one of your number disregarded that direction and did speak to someone who is a witness in the trial . |
| 2 | The Greenpeace International Atmosphere and Energy Unit ( based in the UK office ) requires an assistant to provide general administrative support and help co-ordinate the energy research programme . |
| 3 | The IMF on April 8 , 1991 , approved a financing package for Costa Rica , authorizing disbursements of up to SDR88,300,000 ( about US$119 million ) over the next 12 months to support the government 's economic programme and to help meet increases in the cost of oil imports . |
| 4 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 5 | In the end , the compromise reached stops short of making nursery places a universal entitlement but does acknowledge the changing role of mothers in the labour market . |
| 6 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 7 | The 12-pounder exposed on a turntable mounting , the mortars and the oerlikons all fired at the flashes of German guns , as did the commandos in the MLs , firing brens in a pre-arranged fire-plan that helped conserve ammunition . |
| 8 | The Orange/Matamp GT120 , the beefy 1960s British amp that helped define the sound of bands like Free , Wishbone Ash and the original Fleetwood Mac , is available again as part of the Matamp ‘ Roots ’ range , with only one big difference — it 's green . |
| 9 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 10 | The electronic publishing market is no exception to this process but does seem to have been affected rather faster than most . |
| 11 | It is doubtful if the material was actually used in this way , but the engraved sealstone is another art that does revive in Greece at this time . |
| 12 | I then drew some gold lines between the square apertures to give some definition and help separate the four designs . |
| 13 | I I think , I 've a funny feeling that did adopt it but quite how much that means I do n't understand . |
| 14 | Ben Rich , who headed Lockheed 's celebrated ‘ Skunk Works ’ for seventeen years and was part of the engineering team for the U-2 , SR-71 and F-117 , addressed the Aviation/Space Writers Associations 's annual conference this summer and let slip one of the secrets surrounding the early development of the stealth attack aircraft . |
| 15 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 16 | Here , I 've opened the wine , have this glass and do settle . |
| 17 | the authority make provision for more local and central courses on the pastoral curriculum and make PSE a high INSET priority |
| 18 | However , there was one measure of early interaction that did predict social competence in three year olds . |
| 19 | They agree that skill requirements are reduced as mechanisation moves through the first three stages , but part company in their interpretation of what happens in fully automated plants , Bright claiming that , because the machinery becomes virtually self-sufficient in terms of needing no worker input , such work that does remain is subject to more centralised control and closer supervision even though the tasks to be performed may have become more sophisticated . |
| 20 | Such work as does exist usually approaches the issue by analysis of the language used by teachers and pupils in classroom exchanges ( Mitchell , 1985 ) and this too needs to be integrated in this whole topic of children 's language development . |
| 21 | Such pluralism as did occur was excused on grounds of the poverty of one or both livings . |
| 22 | As it is difficult to imagine a direct advantage conferred by shell banding for survival in wave-swept conditions , banding must be a pleiotropic consequence of a physiological or morphological trait that does affect life under those conditions ( Berry , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | In high season a variety of specialist restaurants are available ( opened at the managements ' discretion ) at no extra charge but do require a reservation . |
| 24 | Within this framework , however , it is perfectly valid , and indeed necessary , to speculate — to interpret the meagre , opaque and often contradictory evidence that does exist . |
| 25 | Some of these considerations are sometimes valid , and must be taken into account , but surely they should not excuse us from seeking out such evidence as does exist in relation to the period and style we are performing ? |
| 26 | These books throw little light on his personal career but do reveal at last one aspect of his character . |
| 27 | Such life that does survive is warped from contact with the pools and flows of dark magical energy left over from the war . |
| 28 | ‘ I really believe any reasonable scheme that will give the Naze extra status and help try to save it is a great thing , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Such lighting as did exist consisted of feeble oil lamps suspended above the pavement , which not only gave poor light but frequently went out , making the streets both difficult to negotiate and dangerous to be abroad in . |
| 30 | I have selected them partly because I was involved in their investigation , but also because it is a relatively simple system that does happen to illustrate these two concepts rather nicely . |