Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fair or unfair , it is a system which has helped make Germany a beacon of political and economic stability in the Western world . |
| 32 | This kind of specialised service has helped make Homegrown Videos one of the biggest distributors in the business . |
| 33 | NORDSTROM 'S ability to cater for what its customers want has helped make the Seattle-based company one of the largest retailers in America . |
| 34 | This has helped make it a big importer of garbage . |
| 35 | His leadership ; his strength in the scrum , has helped make Gloucester into a real force once again . |
| 36 | A close association with Derek Jarman has helped establish her current arthouse ascendancy , but she reached her widest audience with Your Cheatin' Heart on television . |
| 37 | Ironically , the deep-seated mistrust , even hatred , left by a half-century of American support for despots and oligarchs in that region has helped keep General Noriega in power . |
| 38 | FET has been instrumental in blocking experimental release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment ; has helped halt a BioWar facility in Utah : and has fought successful court battles with the US Department of Agriculture , the National Institute of Health , the Environmental Protection Agency and the Defence Department . |
| 39 | Since retiring , Bill Newton has helped run a charity in support of Romanians … particularly the children . |
| 40 | A £100 safe working bonus by laboratory staff at ICI Wilton 's research centre has helped buy science and technology books for St Mary 's Infant and Alderman William Jones Primary schools in Grangetown . |
| 41 | He has helped guide us carefully through some difficult decisions and seen through the establishment of the pastoral team and the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 42 | That surplus has helped push the world price down to as little as 55 ecus per tonne . |
| 43 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 44 | As well as the hundreds of demonstrations by artists and craftspeople covering all art forms , this year The Artist has helped organise a very much larger Materials and Techniques section where you will be able to try out art materials , ask questions and buy products from many of the UK 's leading art materials ' manufacturers . |
| 45 | She 's angry at the way it portrays handicapped people , and has helped organise a blockade of a television studio . |
| 46 | It is turning first to the Oracle Corp Financials world , a niche market , it admits , but one that has helped nurture the rapid growth of database server companies like Sequent Computer Systems Inc . |
| 47 | Gravel extraction has helped reveal the mysteries of Yarnton 's past . |
| 48 | But Mr de Soto goes down well in Washington , where he has helped persuade the authorities to take the previously unknown Mr Fujimori seriously . |
| 49 | Mutual understanding has helped address these dilemmas . |
| 50 | Wells store has helped expand the British cheese market by actively encouraging many small dairy farms to produce speciality cheeses . |
| 51 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 52 | But very , very quickly erm , I 'm actually delighted that this organization has helped breathe the life into not only the Professional Boxers ' Association , we are extremely grateful . |
| 53 | The £6m project has helped breathe new life into land which lines the town 's central rail corridor . |
| 54 | Heavy overnight rain has helped swell some rivers … but elsewhere the flooding seems to have peaked , and forecasters say the worst is over … at least for now . |
| 55 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 56 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | For example , greater capital mobility has permitted many governments , for good or ill , to initiate development projects that previously had been starved by capital shortage and has helped raise the levels of ambition for future competitiveness and importance on the world stage . |
| 59 | A significant cost cutting programme was introduced which , combined with improved production resulting from a successful infill drilling and well recompletion programme , has helped alleviate the production decline and extend the economic life of the PSC . |
| 60 | He believes that ScotRail 's 9 per cent increase in revenue over the past year has helped strengthen his case for a buy-out . |