Example sentences of "this [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This helped promote political stability , but also led to friction within the government and with its supporters , disappointed in their expectation of a major improvement in living conditions .
2 This helped formulate some of the 600 questions and devise a reply scoring system .
3 This helped give French unionism an elitist philosophy , organising a minority of politically conscious and literate workers in contrast with the more solid and comprehensively organised , dues-paying membership of the British model ( Kendall , 1975 ) .
4 Why did this man have such an effect on her ?
5 Any spare spaces available on courses for its own advice workers are filled by people from outside and this helps provide additional professional stimulation for its trainers .
6 After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours .
7 Although this was higher than 13.8 ( 7.7–30.3 ) pg/mg in subjects without symptoms , this did reach statistical significant ( p=0.11 ) .
8 Of course , after my husband died , I had to find work that would enable me to look after her , and this did seem ideal . "
9 Of course a scheme like this does incur considerable costs , but it will be for the benefit of the town and help to preserve a record of a popular part of Bishop 's Castle 's history , while we still have people who remember ‘ our ’ railway and travelled on it .
10 The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years .
11 Information in the user manual is almost always inadequate leaving new users to find out for themselves how it works — although this does enhance practical knowledge of the processor .
12 This does mean that re-entry or back to nursing courses presently operating will not necessarily be approved retrospectively for the purpose by the National Boards .
13 All this does mean great flexibility , but one other source of flexibility is often totally overlooked — the N1 cam .
14 This does work both ways .
15 This does require advanced technical skills .
16 This does raise one point of interest to fishkeepers .
17 If you are thinking of feeding a composite source into the monitor , from a video recorder say , then the problem would be one of matching scan rates as well and this does get complicated .
18 But from what is available it looks as though typing Services will be rid of Wang by the end of September and we could be linked by December ( this does seem optimistic ) .
19 This does have some advantages for small retailers in that they can return unsold stock , but the retailer loses flexibility where they are required to maintain the prices recommended by manufacturers .
20 This does have some advantages .
21 but they 're not the representatives , and this does have some bearing I think on er remark with regard to erm where does the parish council P P C actually fit in ?
22 Some plotters do n't feature built-in character sets so even the codes for the letters and numbers will have to be created but at least this does allow customised characters to be designed and used .
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