Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Your vote will go help pick the winners of the seventh annual Daily Mirror British Video Awards . |
| 9 | It is difficult to see how avoiding teaching about what is distinctive of religion can help people gain an understanding of it ! |
| 10 | People like Masklin and Angalo and Gurder can make people listen to them , but you do n't seem to keep their attention . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A DEADLY poison which causes botulism can make people look younger . |
| 18 | The research is still in the early stages , but it seems the drug could help patients withstand higher doses of radiation , or might itself kill cancer cells . |
| 19 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 20 | As my letter perhaps indicates , I am not from ‘ the old school of diplomacy ’ as your article would have readers believe , and I do not like destructive reporting in an area which merits a more measured and informed approach . |
| 21 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 22 | A calm stance breeds a sense of trust and security , while a threatening pose will make creatures run , just as a dog will cower or a cat will flee merely at the kind of look expressed upon your face , even in the absence of words . |
| 23 | It 's hoped the conference will help others take the first steps towards full re-habilitation. ( 1 ) |
| 24 | The infusion of European cash will help Britain raise expenditure on such projects as the Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire , for which 53 per cent of the funding will now come from Brussels . |
| 25 | The move will help Fiat regain market share from French and German importers , which have hiked prices after recent currency crises . |
| 26 | Fertility counselling can help couples assess their need for treatment , and help them prepare for it |
| 27 | In this article Alan Hingston , Executive Director of the Industrial Development Board 's Marketing Development Division , discusses how the support available from the IDB can help companies develop their export potential . |
| 28 | Third Division Torquay were told the colour would make visitors feel less competitive . |
| 29 | Conservationists feel that if the nomination is accepted , they would be able to argue that any new ski development would make UNESCO take the accolade away . |
| 30 | Nor can an economist take it for granted that inflation will make people save more ( in the US they save less ) . |