Example sentences of "helped form " in BNC.

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1 The tight links between journalists and the flourishing independent label scene , local entrepreneurs and key grass-roots venues meant that they all helped to form tastes rather than simply reacting to them .
2 However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them .
3 Back in Huddersfield , Chapman helped to form a third , junior team which in June 1921 entered the West Riding Amateur League .
4 Although he helped to form the National Deaf and Dumb Society , he was also to be the main reason for its demise .
5 She could see each individual hole made by each tough , dark hair that helped to form Gabriel 's thrusting chin-stubble .
6 As the most popular spiritual English classic , it helped to form the religious outlook of Catholics in England right up to the Reformation .
7 Even in modern democracies where the ‘ people 's will ’ is , in theory , sovereign , the state nevertheless constitutes ‘ a power ‘ up there ’ , separate from ‘ the people ’ who helped to form it' ( Hall , 1984 , p. 14 ) .
8 As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period .
9 The experiences of the First World War , often registered in a feeling of horrific waste , also left a deep impression on the mental landscape of the interwar years and helped to form the low-key response towards crime and hooliganism .
10 These were confessions he could not make earlier , when the disavowal of his origins and his deliberate acquisition of Englishness helped to form the remarkable character with which he confronted the world .
11 This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium .
12 Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings .
13 When the WSPU split in 1907 , she helped to form the Women 's Freedom League , and became president .
14 In 1935 he helped to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company , and thus facilitated the development of the Hurricane aircraft which fought in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ) .
15 There she acquired the qualifications that took her in 1881 to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she got a first in the moral sciences tripos in 1884 , and a second in history in 1885 ; she also helped to form the Association of Assistant Mistresses .
16 As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary .
17 A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre .
18 His father helped form the relatives support group ; 5 years on he claims safety standards on ferries are still not high enough .
19 Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions .
20 He helped form the midweek walkers ' club for retired friends who shared his love of walking and it was after one of their regular meetings that he died .
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