Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The research and development which has helped achieve supreme meat quality has always had significant health benefits for our industry . ’ |
| 2 | Membership of the European Community since 1973 has helped attract foreign companies in droves , while better management of a virtually strike-free economy has transformed its performance in the past few years . |
| 3 | This kind of specialised service has helped make Homegrown Videos one of the biggest distributors in the business . |
| 4 | The £6m project has helped breathe new life into land which lines the town 's central rail corridor . |
| 5 | A festival celebrating the indigenous culture of oppressed groups in Bihar State , Central India , has helped raise public awareness of the plight of tribal and Dalit ( outcast ) communities . |
| 6 | The Komatsu robot was designed to help draw detailed maps of the ocean floor but it may serve as a prototype for mining and construction vehicles . |
| 7 | It is designed to help guide experienced benefits advisers through the maize of allowances and exceptions , and users are sent updates whenever the procedures and allowances change . |
| 8 | All staff are expected to help entertain key clients , socialise constructively with suppliers and trading partners , and carry out any on the spot research projects deemed necessary by our department heads . |
| 9 | Key conflicts concern relationships between departments and the outside world ; ministers are expected to help defend departmental interests . |
| 10 | Kaifu emphasised that Japan would continue to try to help resolve regional conflicts , particularly the conflict in Cambodia . |
| 11 | Roll out and mould fondant using a little icing sugar or ( preferably ) cornflour for dusting to help prevent sticking . |
| 12 | Budgeting Loans can be made to help meet important expenses for which you have difficulties in budgeting . |
| 13 | Every effort is being made to help find alternative employment for those affected , ’ said human resources manager . |
| 14 | He attended Parliaments fairly regularly until late in life , and once ( in 1406 ) agreed to help settle Baltic trade disputes . |
| 15 | But the large-scale manufacture of plastics after World War 11 encouraged FAO to sponsor the development of cheap , large , plastic nets , which were originally intended to help provide additional sources of protein for developing countries . |
| 16 | It is also intended to help finance small ventures , and the EIB grants ‘ global loans ’ to intermediary financial institutions , such as Finance for Industry in the UK , which on-lend the funds for suitable projects after prior approval from the EIB . |
| 17 | In particular , economists and statisticians were needed to help formulate economic policy , not only in the departments but in the Cabinet Office as well . |
| 18 | Good guys ( factors which are thought to help prevent coronary heart disease ) Taking sufficient prolonged exercise ; consuming sufficient dietary fibre . |
| 19 | I feel that they may also have been used to help induce altered states of consciousness . |
| 20 | It exists to help understand social reality . |
| 21 | However , an important data set did give clear indications that , although not increasing the likelihood of long-term unemployment , temporary working was linked to recurrent unemployment . |
| 22 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 23 | In addition the research aims to help frame practical recommendations about how the potential benefits of community credit unions might be maximised and how outside agencies can best help . |
| 24 | Financed by an interim multilateral fund set up by the Montreal Protocol on the Protection of the Ozone Layer [ see ED 59/60 ; 35/36 ] , the work aims to help compensate developing countries for the technical and financial costs of switching to substitute chemicals or processes . |
| 25 | It may have helped reduce eighteenth-century mortality ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 26 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 27 | Whether you 're a parent , a teacher , a youth worker or a friend , there are positive , practical steps you can take to help keep young people away from crime . |
| 28 | But often students attending do have previous experience , either in the amateur theatre ‘ or in university or school productions . |
| 29 | Products containing keratin such as Clynol 's Apres Colour Bath and Balsam , around £7.95 each from Clynol appointed salons , claim to help rebuild battered hair and improve its resistance . |
| 30 | If the islands where they lived did contain strong jawed predators , such as hyaenas , their heads would make a crunchy snack . |