Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has to go some to outshine Dean Richards , dropped for the second time in a year . |
| 2 | In the Camelford case , the muddled official response has done little to engender confidence in the abilities of the DoE , DHSS or their local networks to deal effectively with any similar incident in future . |
| 3 | The regime has done little to reassure people . |
| 4 | It has done little to defend persons of rank and breeding against the envy and malice of the base-born , to support the better against the worse , the cultivated and civilised against the barbarous and ignorant . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , this area of law is far from straightforward and the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 has done little to simplify matters . |
| 6 | The move has done little to dampen speculation that the middle tier will see more mergers in the immediate future . |
| 7 | But the change of format to this year 's championship has done little to help Cork 's case . |
| 8 | Over the years Korea 's fast economic growth , unlike Taiwan 's , for example , has done little to boost inflation . |
| 9 | The disbanding of ACE , of course too , has done little to boost MIPS ' credibility , and there exists no major vendor that 's committed to MIPS as a desktop processor . |
| 10 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 11 | The Youth Training Scheme has done much to educate employers about the importance of training a workforce to meet the challenge of the 21st century . |
| 12 | This , coupled with cognate developments such as the dispersion of departmental functions to semi-autonomous agencies , has done much to extend cost consciousness and value-for-money considerations down the management line in accordance with the FMI 's underlying principles . |
| 13 | None has done much to ease Africa 's long-term debt burden . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that the FMC which , by 1980 , represented over 80 per cent of Cuban women , has done much to improve opportunities for women and , above all , to give them dignity and respect in society . |
| 15 | Trevor , who enjoys joining in with Northumbrian folk fiddlers such as Alistair Anderson , believes the Swaledale Festival has done much to revive Dales music-making — by choirs as well as instrumentalists . |
| 16 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 17 | I am sure that the Minister is aware that the Midland bank , which has done much to develop child care , has said of the Government recently that they keep calling its representatives to conferences at which they urge the importance of child care , but they do nothing . |
| 18 | This book is the autobiography of John D. Roberts , the organic chemist whose pioneering work has done much to establish NMR spectroscopy as a routine tool in organic chemistry . |
| 19 | ‘ Sir Andrew has done much to enhance England 's profile , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The following three-part concept has helped thousands to put things right . |
| 21 | Recently it has become possible to record band intensity profiles with a range of excitation energies between 20 eV and 100 eV using synchrotron radiation ; these profiles show that the relationship between ionization energy and band intensity is not a simple one . |
| 22 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 23 | It has become possible to measure plasma levels of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 which are specific platelet proteins ( Niewiarowski , 1977 ; Moore et al , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | Today it has become fashionable to disparage Lawrence and his achievements but Churchill , Allenby , Wavell , men of action and men of letters and humble aircraftmen who knew him , paid tribute to him in T. E. Lawrence By His Friends . |
| 25 | In a closed system the given amount of initial free energy becomes less readily available as the system develops towards a state with maximum entropy , where entropy signifies the degree to which energy has become unable to perform work . |
| 26 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 27 | It has proved possible to reach agreements that eventually ended atmospheric pollution caused by nuclear tests , that prohibited environmental modification and kept Antarctica free of nuclear weapons and military establishments . |
| 28 | By taking a piece of grazing marsh with freshwater fleets , controlling water levels , making watery scrapes and building hides , it has proved possible to give visitors excellent views of thousands of wigeon , mallards and teal , with white-fronted geese frequent in winter . |
| 29 | At the same time it became increasingly apparent that research using instruments like the PARI was not producing clear-cut relationships : on the basis of attitudinal measures alone it has proved difficult to predict child personality . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the plasma ratio of 5-ASA to N-acetyl-5-ASA varies somewhat in patients maintained on the different mesalazine formulations and this has led some to suggest differences in nephrotoxic potential . |