Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planks need a bearing of only 50 — 75mm each side , with one or two ventilation holes of about 25mm diameter bored in each to help keep the pit aired it 's covered . |
| 2 | The two main beneficiaries are the local Sue Ryder Home and the Keighley Adult Training Centre for the mentally handicapped , but £2,500 was donated in 1986 to help start a special child development unit at Airedale Hospital . |
| 3 | But the two communications from " Ella , typelifter " in 1886 do sound authentic and throw a little light on what women may have thought about the central issues here : their being employed as cheap labour and the question of skill . |
| 4 | A couple in 1925–29 made do with 2.2 live births . |
| 5 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 6 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 7 | During the later decades of the century , scientists were active in organizations such as the Sierra Club , founded by John Muir in 1892 to help preserve Yosemite and other natural wonders in California . |
| 8 | The USA was to contribute US$25,000,000 ; funding both for the new science centre , and for help in moving and storing nuclear warheads safely , would come out of a US$400,000,000 fund approved by Congress in 1991 to help dismantle and remove Soviet nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | The NEB was created by the government in 1975 to help restructure British industry by selective intervention , particularly in areas of high unemployment . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the World Bank said in Washington on Dec. 6 that a US$500,000,000 structural adjustment loan for India had been approved to support reforms in the state-controlled economy ; a further US$400,000,000 would be allocated in 1992 to help finance the streamlining of the public sector . |
| 11 | MINTEC was established in 1964 to help revitalise British industry through the application of technology . |
| 12 | His decisive handling of affairs at the outbreak of war in 1914 helped avert a financial crisis , and he was invited to remain in office beyond the normal two years . |
| 13 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 14 | He also pursued finance , and in 1848 helped reorganize the banking firm of Magniac , Jardine , which as Matheson & Company became a financial giant in the City , and within which he became ‘ Uncle James ’ . |
| 15 | It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world . |
| 16 | Although glasses in general do have a definite local structure their overall structure is disordered . |
| 17 | Existence is not a " property of concepts " ( qua functions ) ; although ontological claims in general do entail claims about concepts . |
| 18 | Hotels in particular do require special attention . |
| 19 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 20 | Joint studies in 1953 did produce agreement that the Zagros mountains ( in Iran ) provided the best line of defence given appropriate support on the flanks from Iraq to Pakistan . |
| 21 | Turning to company data , the fact that five leading US investment banks had post tax returns on average equity of 26% in 1982 does suggest high profitability ( Table 5.11 ) . |
| 22 | The father opposed Hitler and spent a year in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied France , then returned to Berlin in 1945 to help build a new Germany . |