Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will also look at a simple form of self-massage to help banish cellulite . |
| 2 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 3 | Miraculously much of this does get done , but there are few teachers , if any , who can walk out the gates at four o'clock , knowing they are up-to-date , |
| 4 | Yet the treaty of 1259 did introduce a momentous change into the relations between the two powers . |
| 5 | It may be true that concepts and factual propositions are subject to change and have no consequences until engaged by someone 's mind , but it is also true that some transmission of knowing does take place , and that a facility with , or mastery of , those concepts and propositions is necessary to further development . |
| 6 | Despite this difference , the plot of 587 does help illuminate the crisis of two years before . |
| 7 | But once the first of these did arrive , Edward Plantagenet lost no time in testing their quality . |
| 8 | They have a staff of three to help administer Koraloona . |
| 9 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 10 | His father died suddenly and Swindin had to leave school and start work at the age of fourteen to help support the family . |
| 11 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 12 | A bowl of fruit in your room , a bottle of wine , a special meal or commemorative glass of bubbly to help celebrate your great occasions . |
| 13 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 14 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |
| 15 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |