Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sayeth the protector — and pray God he may be a protector ! — that the king doth lack a playfellow ? ’ |
| 2 | One description of the typical witch declares as highly suspect ‘ women which be commonly old , lame , blear-eied , pale , fowle and full of wrinkles ; poore , sullen , superstitious , and papists ; or such as knowe no religion : in whose drousie minds the divell doth goten a fine seat ’ . |
| 3 | ( 58 ) Mrs Thatcher realizes that there is a great deal to be done before she dares launch an all-out offensive in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | And sowre ale , and dead ale , and ale the while doth stand a tylte is good for no man . |
| 5 | All this helps make a good impression on the customer . |
| 6 | Lets make a baby |
| 7 | But one side branch shoots up very high and lets fall an avalanche of dark green pine needles . |
| 8 | The increasing internationalization of Chlor-Chemicals , both in marketing and production also helps provide a buffer against economic uncertainties . |
| 9 | The committee said that the government should examine copyright law , which restricts the import of cheaper CDs from abroad , to see whether it helps sustain a ‘ complex monopoly ’ in Britain 's £1.2 billion music industry . |
| 10 | The recompense is meagre , but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician . |
| 11 | Conversely , on the materialist model it is much more homophobia itself , as an aspect of the construction of homosexuality and independently of the question of the actual subjective repression of desire , which helps secure a coerced identity and social organization ; homophobia enforces the heterosexual norm by policing its boundaries : ‘ Homophobia is only incidentally directed against homosexuals — its more common use is against the 49% of the population which is male … |
| 12 | Clearly the maintenance of discipline within a school is in all pupils ' best interests if it helps produce an environment conducive to learning , and it seems appropriate to leave with teachers the decision of how to achieve that objective , acting on the guidance provided by HMI , the Elton Report and so on . |
| 13 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 14 | Ok , lets get a few things cleared up straight away . |
| 15 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 16 | However , the strippings and restorations are recorded in dated pencilled notes on stocks or in butt-traps which helps recreate a gun 's personal history . |
| 17 | These are n't in the same league as the gas variety when it comes to providing ‘ real ’ flames , but there 's a wide variety available , and they can just add that cosy finishing touch which helps turn a house into a home . |
| 18 | But doth suffer a sea-change |
| 19 | Which do betray , doth wear an angel 's face , |
| 20 | The gentleman does prefer a blond ! |
| 21 | Thus the first part of the prediction which Barro set out to test appears to be confirmed by these results — unpredictable monetary growth does affect a real variable in the way suggested . |
| 22 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 23 | A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression . |
| 24 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 25 | Barker 's drama does deliver a message even simpler than his point about the importance of the national soul . |
| 26 | Tolerance does not blind a man to the imperfections or faults of a religion , nor does it blur the distinction between religion and irreligion , but it does deliver a man from fanaticism with regard to his own faith . |
| 27 | In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance . |
| 28 | ‘ He does eat a great deal of fish ? ’ said Flavia . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the story did have a happy ending and it does emphasize an important point . |
| 30 | When he does want a pause , Charpentier gives very specific instructions such as ‘ Suivez apres une petite pause ’ ( ‘ Continue after a brief pause ’ ) . |