Example sentences of "it helps [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It helps to use the paper-based index World Banking Abstracts or the CD-Rom product ABI/Inform , as well as our in-line catalogue .
2 It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security .
3 Although it helps to illustrate the multi-vibrator family in this way , here we are really concerned with the electronic version .
4 But it helps to illustrate the general lesson .
5 It helps to emphasise the elderly person 's past strengths and coping abilities .
6 And secondly it helps to combat the unconscious drift from inevitable professional limitation to guilt-inducing personal inadequacy which the injunctions , like unseen magnets , are trying to bring about .
7 The system operated by the park authorities to limit numbers into the Canyon can be tiresome and bureaucratic , although it helps to retain the essential peace , solitude and ecology of the area .
8 It helps to promote the political stability and economic growth that is an essential backdrop to any kind of lasting change .
9 There are three kinds of seed and it helps to know the Latin names :
10 Before you start it helps to understand the differing functions of the various types of fixtures available .
11 It helps to make the visual association moving and in colour .
12 These latter actions highlight an important aspect of the MINSE approach , ie it is not necessarily concerned with changes of a technological nature , but with any that result in improvements to the problem situation ; furthermore , because of the continual participation of the people that the organisation depends on , it helps to ensure a firm commitment to those changes .
13 we always use at least three for a piano because although two men can lift them very often if you 're going round awkward corners it helps to have a third person s to steady them .
14 It helps to have a high IQ , though I suspect a talent for mimicry is more useful ; being able to adopt at will the tones and attitudes of the educated middle classes .
15 This is in contrast to the situation in capitalist countries where education reflects the authoritarian and exploitative values of the factory system with the result that it helps to reproduce the capitalist system of production which is inherently inefficient .
16 ’ Anyone does , in business , if it helps to provide a better service … ’
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