Example sentences of "helped create " in BNC.

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1 Today there are a few very old men in Lebanon who have lived to watch the monster which the general helped to create .
2 She helped to create for him widening circles of friends , the cathedral community , the university , the clergy of the diocese , the students .
3 Pollock , I 'm sure , was unaware of this programme — he died too soon ; nevertheless the propaganda apparatus helped to create the confusion surrounding his art after his death .
4 In addition to installing basic systems for accounting , cost-control and distribution , Mr Shirley helped to create a layer of reliable executives who could translate the technical visions of the company 's chairman and founder , Mr Bill Gates , into products that got out the door , on time and to budget .
5 The risks to investors in some deals turn out , with hindsight , to have been badly understated which , in turn , helped to create crazily high prices .
6 Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share .
7 Mr Guerin , who sold his International Signal and Control company to Ferranti in 1987 for £420m , has admitted creating numerous fictitious arms contracts that helped to create the illusion of prosperity .
8 Although first reactions to Linnaeus were usually unfavourable , on account of his egoistic nature , his visit helped to create an understanding on which goodwill and confidence were built , and his system of classification , based on the number of sexual parts in the flowers , became generally accepted within the next thirty years .
9 Labouring poets who attempted a realistic description of work and social conditions helped to create a new literary response to social reality , a development most commonly associated with Goldsmith , Langhorne , Blake , Crabbe , and eventually Wordsworth .
10 This and its tributaries , helped to create a thriving cloth trade in Painswick .
11 The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy .
12 However , the increasing commercialisation of the game cut across football 's working class origins and helped to create a situation in which football violence was common .
13 Together with the Normande , the cattle of Brittany helped to create breeds as geographically distant as the Canadian and the colour-pointed Mauritius White , both of which are descended from stock of the old types : the Canadian was developed from cattle which accompanied French settlers in the seventeenth century and the Mauritius White in the eighteenth century .
14 He argues that this helped to create an overall ‘ community of interest ’ shared by business and council which made direct and formal interconnection largely irrelevant .
15 In doing so they helped to create resentments against the Masai in the minds of those who came to power in the post-colonial state .
16 Through its support for the war and its positive participation in the construction of the war economy the Labour movement helped to create a fund of popular support for socialist objectives .
17 Meanwhile , in relying on projected trends in age structure , Beveridge forecast a certain level of dependent poverty , but failed to address the generational variations in lifetime patterns of personal economic behaviour which helped to create it .
18 Sadly , those galleries which have withdrawn from ARCO are the leading international businesses which helped to create such an exciting atmosphere and established the fair as one of the most prestigious events in the contemporary art calendar .
19 Building upon the experience which he gained as Malevich 's assistant at the National Institute for Artistic Culture in Leningrad in 1923–26 , when he helped to create the master 's ‘ Analytic Tables ’ , Rozhdestwjenski directed his talent towards the decorative arts , designing books and advertisements , painting porcelain , and creating , with Nikolai Suetin , the Soviet Pavilion for the World Exhibitions held in Paris in 1938 and in New York in 1939 .
20 He was nonetheless a key figure in setting up Britain 's statutory system of buildings conservation , when he helped to create that invaluable archive the National Buildings Record ( now shortly to be banished to Swindon from its present sensible location next to English Heritage ) , which he joined as deputy director in 1941 .
21 For example , the reshaping of absolute monarchies into liberal constitutional regimes across much of Europe in Marx and Engels ' lifetimes reflected the imperatives of industrialization , since constitutionalism ( temporarily ) fostered stable capital accumulation , increased the rate of technical change , and helped to create a trained and compliant workforce .
22 As a first step in that direction , together with the different national sponsorship associations in Europe , it helped to create Cerec ( Comité Européen pour le Rapprochement de l'Économie et de la Culture ) .
23 The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change .
24 We have been exploring the idea that Protestantism helped to create a climate in which the scientific enterprise could gain momentum .
25 Put another way , puritan values helped to create an audience receptive to programs for the improvement of man 's estate .
26 He helped to create the idea of a modern movement with his own " difficult " poetry , and then assisted at its burial .
27 These visits helped to create an atmosphere in which more solid agreements could be reached , especially over disarmament where both sides were feeling the strain of ever-increasing defence budgets .
28 They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s .
29 That Nottinghamshire went on working reflects not simply the self-interest of its miners but more importantly the culture that their predecessors ( many of them their ancestors ) helped to create and transmit to the present .
30 His collaboration with the Croatian Ljudevit Gaj , and his contacts with literary figures such as Petar Petrović-Njegoš in Montenegro , helped to create a sense of Yugoslav cultural unity .
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