Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French were in fact asking for 270 billion francs and it was hard to see how the distinction could be made between helping to improve the French position in Europe and the position in Vietnam . |
| 2 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 3 | In our debate on that , the hon. Member for Wealden ( Sir G. Johnson Smith ) challenged me for daring to challenge the Prime Minister about whether the system would work . |
| 4 | His reward for helping to fix the broken-down Time Machine is to travel to a time of his choice . |
| 5 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 6 | ‘ I vote for Sam McKnight for helping to keep the British hairdressing industry at the forefront of the world . |
| 7 | The use of both types of syntactic analysers has been attempted for helping to select the correct candidate words from the candidates suggested by text recognition systems in this thesis . |
| 8 | Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food . |
| 9 | The lambswool yarns are oiled and require washing after knitting to remove the spinning oil and to develop a full soft handle . |
| 10 | Immediately after the previous session , Margaret had felt better , especially after starting to take the hypnotic . |
| 11 | RAY HANDLEY was fired as coach of the New York Giants yesterday after failing to lead the two-time NFL Super Bowl champions to the play-offs for two successive seasons . |
| 12 | The Palestinian delegation reluctantly attended the eighth round after failing to persuade the other Arab delegations to press for a postponement until after the formal inauguration of US President-elect Bill Clinton in January . |
| 13 | She moved there with French husband and , after failing to persuade the French authorities to accept her English teaching qualifications , she has pursued a career as a bilingual secretary , joining Courtaulds seven years ago . |
| 14 | But Mr. Foster , who lost his deposit after failing to gain the required 5 percent , said : ‘ You can rest assured that the Green Party will remain active in East Hampshire . |
| 15 | A 16-year-old English girl committed suicide after failing to get the required grade to guarantee her a place at art college . |
| 16 | A 16-year-old English girl committed suicide after failing to get the required grade to guarantee her a place at art college . |
| 17 | Jerry Peel was pre-event favourite in this over-40s competition , but had to settle for third place behind Peter Black and Dave Barton after failing to read the last move . |
| 18 | Rod , after managing to find the front door with his unpatched eye is greeted by his colleague who is bent double clutching a bottle of wine . |
| 19 | Georgia has accused Russian troops in Abkhazia of backing separatists who were driven back after trying to storm the regional capital Sukhumi this week . |
| 20 | The former secretary at Swindon Town football club has been given a suspended jail sentence for conspiring to cheat the Inland Revenue . |
| 21 | ‘ There is something suspicious about wanting to shift the entire focus to Libya when we have so much circumstantial evidence for the involvement of Iran , Syria and the GC group , Ahmad Jibril 's Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — ; General Command [ he said ] . |
| 22 | There 's nothing sinister or mysterious about wanting to preserve the best aspects of the working class tradition — the humour , the camaraderie , the sense of shared experience and shared hardships . |
| 23 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 24 | Confined to her room , no doubt , for refusing to marry the old humbug picked out for her . |
| 25 | It 's worth pausing to examine the peculiar animosity which Rushdie seems to arouse , quite unconnected with Muslim wrath at his supposed blasphemy . |
| 26 | Before going on to examine the more detailed contributions of Russian Formalism to specific areas of literary studies , it might be worth pausing to assess the Formalist position by comparing it with the assumptions which it had set out to replace , and which to a certain extent continue to inform ( albeit implicitly ) critical studies still being produced today . |
| 27 | Thus Franco had powerful personal , professional and political reasons for wanting to avoid the immediate capture of Madrid at the beginning of September 1936 . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , said the Government had ruled out any idea of helping to fund the ailing project . |
| 29 | The move is seen as a way of helping to get the Argentinian privatisation programme off the ground and to make some inroads into the country 's foreign debt , which currently totals some $60billion . |
| 30 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |