Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French were in fact asking for 270 billion francs and it was hard to see how the distinction could be made between helping to improve the French position in Europe and the position in Vietnam . |
| 2 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 3 | In our debate on that , the hon. Member for Wealden ( Sir G. Johnson Smith ) challenged me for daring to challenge the Prime Minister about whether the system would work . |
| 4 | We thank all the VAST field , laboratory , computer centre , and administrative staff , especially Mr Martin Adjuik , Mr Azumah Amidini , Mr J Kwabena Badu , Ms Margaret Gyapong , Mr Eric Kasise , Mr Ogyebre Owusu-Agyei , and Mr David Pendlebury ; the population of Kassena-Nankana District and their leaders ; the Regional and District Administration and Health Services ; Dr Moses Adibo and Dr Sam Adjei , ( Ministry of Health of Ghana ) for support and encouragement ; Prof Patrick Vaughan and other colleagues at the LSHTM for support and advice ; Ms Nina Saroi for administrative and secretarial support in London ; Dr Sandra Saenz de Tejada and the WHO-ARI Programme for preliminary study of local concepts and terminology of illness ; Ms Gilly Maude for the randomisation and interim analysis ; Ms Sharon Huttly , Mr Ben Amenuvegbe , and the late Mr Steve Tulloch for helping to design the data management system ; Dr Hazel Inskip and Mr Jerry Wheeler for advice on data processing ; Ms Penny Fennell for help with the training of the computing and secretarial staff ; Ms Rebecca Abbott and Dr Suzanne Filteau ( Institute of Child Health , London ) for measuring serum retinol ; Dr Andy Hall for helping to code the cause of death questionnaires ; and the members of the data monitoring committee for reviewing the interim results . |
| 5 | The general value of a pilot study for helping to assess the importance of information gathered by relatively unsystematic observation and analysis may be demonstrated with reference to the variable ( a ) in Belfast . |
| 6 | An award for helping to improve the environment and simultaneously giving support to a local hospice , has been presented to Stoddard Carpets Ltd . |
| 7 | His reward for helping to fix the broken-down Time Machine is to travel to a time of his choice . |
| 8 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 9 | Several members of the prison staff said they expected to be victimised for helping to form the union . |
| 10 | I later realised I had missed a major opportunity for helping change the situation . |
| 11 | Mr Edwards , 50 , who was awarded the Queen 's Gallantry Medal for helping to save the life of World Champion Niki Lauda in 1976 , previously ran the Jaguar sponsorship programme for six years . |
| 12 | New mechanisms are created for helping ensure the safe transportation of oil along California 's coastline . |
| 13 | We thank all the VAST field , laboratory , computer centre , and administrative staff , especially Mr Martin Adjuik , Mr Azumah Amidini , Mr J Kwabena Badu , Ms Margaret Gyapong , Mr Eric Kasise , Mr Ogyebre Owusu-Agyei , and Mr David Pendlebury ; the population of Kassena-Nankana District and their leaders ; the Regional and District Administration and Health Services ; Dr Moses Adibo and Dr Sam Adjei , ( Ministry of Health of Ghana ) for support and encouragement ; Prof Patrick Vaughan and other colleagues at the LSHTM for support and advice ; Ms Nina Saroi for administrative and secretarial support in London ; Dr Sandra Saenz de Tejada and the WHO-ARI Programme for preliminary study of local concepts and terminology of illness ; Ms Gilly Maude for the randomisation and interim analysis ; Ms Sharon Huttly , Mr Ben Amenuvegbe , and the late Mr Steve Tulloch for helping to design the data management system ; Dr Hazel Inskip and Mr Jerry Wheeler for advice on data processing ; Ms Penny Fennell for help with the training of the computing and secretarial staff ; Ms Rebecca Abbott and Dr Suzanne Filteau ( Institute of Child Health , London ) for measuring serum retinol ; Dr Andy Hall for helping to code the cause of death questionnaires ; and the members of the data monitoring committee for reviewing the interim results . |
| 14 | Despite the contrasting results , however , most delegates agreed that the workshop exercise had been worthwhile , and that Mr Leitch should be congratulated for setting an example for his more coy competitors and for helping perpetuate the open and instructive atmosphere that distinguishes CUBs conferences . |
| 15 | Sussex members thank rally-teachers Jean Parmiter , Lucy Jackson and Chris Jones for helping to make the Sussex Rally the success it was . |
| 16 | ‘ I vote for Sam McKnight for helping to keep the British hairdressing industry at the forefront of the world . |
| 17 | Housing Associations are now responsible for helping fill the gap created by local government 's enforced withdrawal from property development . |
| 18 | The use of both types of syntactic analysers has been attempted for helping to select the correct candidate words from the candidates suggested by text recognition systems in this thesis . |
| 19 | Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food . |
| 20 | The unprecedented blitz of media hype surrounding the restoration , expansion and long awaited re-opening of Frank Lloyd Wright 's great spiralling concrete shell has created a huge public interest and lining up to get in and see what all the fuss is about has become the latest hot civic pursuit . |
| 21 | One of the blanc women I told you about has entered the palace ; the other has been taken by Carrefour . ’ |
| 22 | Bill Clinton ran into trouble for blocking a busy runway while having a $100 haircut , and for appearing to divert the business of the White House travel office to a distant cousin . |
| 23 | in the face of uncertain demand at home , and no markets abroad there can be no justification for keeping open the 10% of pits which ( according to the Monopolies Commission Report of June 1983 ) were responsible for £300 million of the NCB deficit . |
| 24 | When , on 24 May , in a speech before the House of Commons , Churchill acknowledged the Allies ' debt to Spain for keeping open the Straits of Gibraltar , Franco naturally interpreted this as endorsement of his regime and , therefore , another international victory . |
| 25 | The ninth Earl , Henry Percy , was fined £30,000 and imprisoned for 15 years in the Tower of London for omitting to administer the Oath of Supremacy to Thomas Percy of Beverley . |
| 26 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 27 | That a measure apparently so contrary to noble interests was carried through has encouraged the view that , in the hands of a determined tsar , the Russian State was able to ride roughshod over every class . |
| 28 | NCR Corp 's Hauppauge , New York-based subsidiary Applied Digital Data Systems Inc has signed a co-marketing agreement with Structured Software Solutions Inc for ADDS to distribute the latter 's FacetTerm Window and session manager software with ADDS ' AlphaWindow and character terminals , making ADDS the only terminal manufacturer to offer windowing systems on both character and AlphaWindow terminals ; to encourage evaluations , value-added resellers can currently buy a single AlphaWindow terminal and FacetTerm for a reduced price of $350 . |
| 29 | He only turned professional 12 weeks ago after helping to beat the United States in the Walker Cup this summer . |
| 30 | He only turned professional 12 weeks ago after helping to beat the United States in the Walker Cup this summer . |