Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the potential for profitable production did improve , as the post-May 1968 expansion demonstrated . |
| 2 | London Transport does not have to switch frequencies before 1990 , But this massive victory for British diplomacy does have one minor drawback — the transitional period does not apply to the new users . |
| 3 | Goneril and Regan almost have hypocrisy thrust upon them , in that Lear 's invitations to flatter for instant profit do impose an intolerable burden on anyone of a less than firm integrity . |
| 4 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 6 | The offer to close down the reactors was conditional on the receipt of economic aid to help modernize Bulgaria 's nuclear industry , which supplied over one-third of the country 's electricity requirements . |
| 7 | As the overnight election results came in , the Bank of England activated a programme to sell more than £2 billion of gilt-edged stock to help fund the Government 's high public spending . |
| 8 | It may well be the case , however , that to some degree fear of political change does inhibit civil servants , so that in order to ensure continuity they will only promote policies which they judge both major parties will accept . |
| 9 | Goody , however , claims that if the processes of political scepticism do occur at all in non-literate societies , they must always be limited and individual . |
| 10 | While we do n't believe Mr Clarke is so fond of his junior minister he would be prepared to spend £20m of public money to help secure his re-election , the fact that this was an issue in other Tory marginal seats around the country no doubt influenced ministerial thought processes . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , a high level of public spending does raise problems , especially when the general economic situation is bad . |
| 12 | I like him and read him again and again ; and his tartness , his acid humour , his honesty , his feeling for certain English types and certain kinds of English scenery do appeal to me very much . |
| 13 | Mix tuna , kidney beans , cucumber , tomato , olives , parsley and garlic , season with salt and pepper and add about 1 tablespoon of olive oil to help combine ingredients . |
| 14 | However , levels of overall satisfaction do seem to have dropped between 1983 and 1987 . |
| 15 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 16 | A major piece of work is to make sure that the assessment processes do allow us to deal with er , people who are requiring specialist palliative care , not only at the hospice , but in the form of out-reach work , and one project that is proposed is some use of joint finance to help dovetail the work on assessment , er , from the Health Authority front with that provided by Social Services . |
| 17 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 18 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 19 | At this juncture it should be noted that a considerable proportion of international lending does take this latter form . |
| 20 | Brazil is to receive US$250 million worth of international aid to help conserve the Amazon forest . |
| 21 | It is well recognised that these differences in styles of legal thinking do exist , and the Convention is interpreted in practice in such a way that its objectives will be secured despite those differences . |
| 22 | That the development of procedural fairness does involve the court in a balancing function is undeniable . |
| 23 | One persistent analytical account of causal priority does seize upon an indubitable truth , that causal items stand to their effects as our means to our ends , while no effect is our means to its cause or causal circumstance . |
| 24 | The rate and amount of vaginal lubrication does decrease with age . |
| 25 | However , current developments in the area of artificial intelligence do hold some promise of making available an efficient blend of human intuition and computer slog . |
| 26 | It would seem , therefore , that while various potential remedies for breach of fiduciary duty do exist , it is unlikely that they will ever be used . |
| 27 | The presence of profound bradycardia helped validate the occurrence of hypoxaemia when skin po 2 signals were recorded without Sao 2 . |
| 28 | For Mr Desai , and many thousands of Indian yogis who rise at 4am and sit cross-legged for two hours , meditating on profound spiritual questions , a glass of melatonin-rich urine does seem to be the ideal thirst-quencher . |
| 29 | Past world-wide experience does seem to show that there is almost invariably more oil in oil discoveries ( see Oil Reserves section ) than is originally supposed . |
| 30 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |