Example sentences of "[conj] helped [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as important historical events that helped to shape the town , the walks show how people lived , worked and enjoyed themselves . |
| 2 | And it was works like these , where the kitchen table was strewn with the un-washed remains of breakfast , that helped to give the movement its name . |
| 3 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 4 | In order to create sufficient headroom within the studio , it was necessary to remove an existing tie-beam which spanned between two timber posts that helped to support the roof structure and to adapt and re-site this member at a higher level , just below the soffit of the ceiling ( Plate 11 ) . |
| 5 | It 's space age technology that helped to snatch the order from under the noses of major American competitors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 8 | Again , one of the main sources of supply today and one that helped to put the Whitby industry out of business during the late nineteenth century , is centred on Oviedo in Spain , which draws its supplies from Lower Cretaceous marls in Asturias . |
| 9 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 10 | She was cut off tragically at the height of her powers , but she had already made her mark : a crucial contribution to one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century , and work on two major biological problems and the techniques for solving them , that helped lay the foundations of structural molecular biology . |
| 11 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 12 | This is the image , from Whitley Strieber 's Communion book , that helped sell the book that launched the film that … |
| 13 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 14 | Maybe these are the qualities that helped to build the company in the competitive marketplace . |
| 15 | Some sculptors dealt with the problem by making the support part of the narrative , decorating it with features that helped to identify the figure . |
| 16 | In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power . |
| 17 | When Miss C gave the evidence that helped put the doctor away , she broke down in tears . |
| 18 | The Orange/Matamp GT120 , the beefy 1960s British amp that helped define the sound of bands like Free , Wishbone Ash and the original Fleetwood Mac , is available again as part of the Matamp ‘ Roots ’ range , with only one big difference — it 's green . |
| 19 | They made specific donations on the night in the knowledge that it all the proceeds were going to the cancer day ward and that helped to boost the figure . |
| 20 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 21 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 22 | It was the steady flow of student and ex-student recruits which brought into being and helped to sustain the radical circles , organizations and nation-wide parties of the revolutionary underground . |
| 23 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 24 | He campaigned against the war itself and against military and industrial conscription , and helped to organize the early rent strikes in 1915–16 . |
| 25 | The reader feels , after reading them , as if he/she had followed Theseus into the labyrinth , faced the Minotaur and helped to slay the beast , then followed the clew back into the outside world . |
| 26 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 27 | This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director . |
| 28 | This was a boost to my ego and helped to offset the ever-present dread of getting the chop from Halton . |
| 29 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |
| 30 | 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 . |