Example sentences of "and help [verb] " in BNC.

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1 What is less often recognized is that it was distinctly innovatory , marking important breaks with earlier theories of female sexuality and helping to generate an intellectual climate favourable to regulationism .
2 We have to be out on the streets documenting the revolution and helping to forge our new democracy .
3 This entailed stopping on the Works premises and calling the fire station at intervals or in the event of a fire , informing them and helping to put it out .
4 The WWF also launched a Caring for the Earth Campaign for Change , seeking pledges from individuals to make personal contributions to the strategy 's goals over the next year by using energy-efficient light bulbs , cutting car mileage by 25 per cent , planting 10 trees and helping to organize recycling initiatives at their workplace .
5 Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale .
6 James , who played Lieutenant Castillo , became a folk hero during the LA riots by appealing for calm and helping to clean up .
7 Robinson also cited the work of the commission 's judicial task force in recommending and helping to set up a scientific organization inside the Federal Judicial Center that will provide guidance for judges on the question of interpreting scientific evidence in court ( see page 481 ) .
8 The organisation would have legal autonomy in monitoring the application of EC health and safety legislation in member states — and helping to shape future legislation .
9 The conclusions are obvious enough : that there was a tendency among some Victorians to have fewer children where they could arrange it that way , and that improved medical care , hygiene , sanitation and living conditions generally were improving life-expectancy and helping to eradicate infant deaths .
10 Perhaps so , but it seems to me that , if the experience curve is understood as reflecting the continued , planned desire for cost leadership as more is produced , the expression of the curve and the learning rate provide a useful way of monitoring cost-reduction possibilities and helping to formulate strategy .
11 Environmental and human rights groups are opposing the involvement of international companies in oil exploration in Burma , which they say is destroying a relatively untouched forest environment and helping to fund a military government with a poor human rights record .
12 We will use Britain 's six-month tenure of the Presidency of the Community 's Council of Ministers to make a start on the real tasks that lie ahead : building a prosperous and integrated economy ; correcting the democratic deficit , making Europe work for its citizens , not its institutions ; widening the Community 's membership ; and helping to create a peaceful and stable new world order .
13 It is no accident that Londoners were to be found financing enterprises in the shires — Henry Fyner , a goldsmith , had built the first English blast furnace at Hartfield , Sussex — and helping to create the country 's stock of ‘ social overhead capital ’ — roads and bridges , schools and colleges .
14 And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up .
15 The satisfaction of belonging to a worthwhile organisation and helping to promote the development of Medau work
16 The first is a female spirit with long fair hair who travels from village to village by water , visiting farms and helping to tend cattle .
17 So there were critical reservations but in general the sociological film was winning Hollywood new friends and helping to fill cinemas .
18 The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes .
19 Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’
20 On April 27 charges including illegal telephone tapping , embezzlement , and helping to falsify election results had been brought against Mielke , who was already in prison [ see p. 37828 ] .
21 THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product .
22 Fast and clever , Roy was a typical inside man of his day , but he was better than most and had a successful career with Palace , providing the ideal foil to the mercurial Johnny Byrne and helping to make us a respected side in Division 3 before leaving for Portsmouth in the summer of 1963 .
23 In state capitals , the standard of museums and of the performing arts is a source of pride , and helping to raise those standards confers prestige and social cachet .
24 This absorbs shock form impact with the ground , enhancing comfort and helping to prevent injury .
25 There is sufficient money in balances to pay our share of that , if we need to do so , and I think making scare stories about it does n't do anything towards what I hope we all want , which is an efficient , effective police force in this county , protecting us erm from crime , and helping to prevent as much crime as possible .
26 There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth .
27 In fact , British scientists and engineers stand to save money handsomely , given the comparative cost of joining the LOFT consortium and helping to build Super-SARA .
28 I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question .
29 We see ourselves putting a continuing input into the shaping of the course , and helping to recruit suitable students .
30 She specialises in linking and helping to solve violent crimes by comparing the perpetrators ' methods .
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