Example sentences of "[adj] help [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spinner Nick Cook 's four for 22 helped restrict the Welshmen to 169 for nine but Northants were made to sweat before gaining victory despite solid knocks from Robin Bailey ( 49 ) and David Capel ( 47 ) . |
| 2 | This leaflet has been prepared to help explain this new scheme and how it might affect you . |
| 3 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 4 | However , post-menopausal women need 1,000–1 , 500mg daily to help avoid osteoporosis , as explained further on page 113 . |
| 5 | Margaret Charlwood will be taking a workshop session showing the Medau approach and would like to hear from anyone wishing to attend — especially those with cars who would be willing to help transport some disabled class members . |
| 6 | Why is Christian Aid willing to help facilitate linking ? |
| 7 | Those that Christian Aid is willing to help facilitate would involve at least some of the following : |
| 8 | UK willing to help enforce UN no-fly zone |
| 9 | BRITISH fighter pilots could be patrolling the skies over Bosnia within days after the Government yesterday made it clear it was willing to help enforce the United Nations no-fly zone . |
| 10 | If anyone is willing to help renovate it they should contact Jim Cosgrove or Jim Maison , of the MBA . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying getting all dressed solves the problem , but as bank managers are human , it does make 'em that much more willing to help try and solve it . |
| 12 | Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee . |
| 13 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 14 | This helped transform a small disturbance into a full-blown campaign . |
| 15 | This helped promote political stability , but also led to friction within the government and with its supporters , disappointed in their expectation of a major improvement in living conditions . |
| 16 | This helped formulate some of the 600 questions and devise a reply scoring system . |
| 17 | This helped give French unionism an elitist philosophy , organising a minority of politically conscious and literate workers in contrast with the more solid and comprehensively organised , dues-paying membership of the British model ( Kendall , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | This helped give workers the confidence to stand up to their employers — to quit or strike or be sacked seemed less daunting . |
| 19 | AU this helped provide a favourable climate for imperial sport — Test matches , rugby tours , and ultimately the institution of the Empire Games itself . |
| 20 | This helped pave the way for the full-blooded domestication of the idea of Empire at the popular imperial exhibitions held first at Wembley and later in Glasgow between the wars . |
| 21 | Mendel points out that this helped pave the way for economic crises that aggravated social discontent before 1905 . |
| 22 | This helped persuade the Government to take action altering tax incentives for planting in the 1988 Budget . |
| 23 | To be mercenary , this helped elevate The Smiths into national notoriety . |
| 24 | This helped maintain confidence , which in turn helped maintain accumulation . |
| 25 | This helped reduce gearing from 28.1% in 1991 to 21.7% in 1992 . |
| 26 | It was alleged that he was enlisted by North in November 1985 to help send Hawk missiles through Israel to Iran . |
| 27 | He bagged 5–60 to help shoot out the visitors for 166 , a deficit of 116 . |
| 28 | This helps eliminate the noise that results from the speedy switching on CMOS devices . |
| 29 | The first thing to say is that the spool is large and ribbed — this helps stop the bedding in of line that can sometimes occur . |
| 30 | All this helps make a good impression on the customer . |