Example sentences of "[coord] helped [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He campaigned against the war itself and against military and industrial conscription , and helped to organize the early rent strikes in 1915–16 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director .
8 This was a boost to my ego and helped to offset the ever-present dread of getting the chop from Halton .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment .
12 The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism .
13 He recoiled , but the iciness in the breeze freshened his skin and helped to dispel the lethargy he had been feeling sitting in the car .
14 This novel organization rapidly gained the confidence of the capital 's work-force , and helped to inspire the creation of soviets elsewhere in the country — among peasants and soldiers as well as workers .
15 These songs and poetry have helped the group maintain their spirit of unity , provides some light relief to let off some steam , and helped to convey the message of what they have done and are continuing to do to other community groups in a way which can not be simply related in written words and figures .
16 He escaped to China in 1940 and helped found the Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam ( the Viet Minh ) in the following year .
17 And so Ian went north to Barnsley but , after completing another century of appearances for The Tykes , his link with Palace was re-established in June 1984 when he joined Steve Coppell as Assistant Manager here at Selhurst Park , and helped to fashion the team that restored 1st Division football at The Palace in 1989 , although by the time of Palace 's promotion , Ian had taken over as Manager of Swansea City .
18 Monism thus generated a respect for life as a whole and helped to emphasize the unity of Nature .
19 Malcolm 's lasting interest in the Orient was illustrated by the fact that he became president of the China Society and helped to found the Oriental Ceramic Society .
20 Neville Shute , the eminent author , widely known for his book A Town called Alice , once resided in Howden , along with Barnes Wallis , one of the greatest inventors of the 20th century , who designed and helped to build the airship R100 .
21 The New Zealand government transported the rocks by sea and helped to build the breakwater so that the island could start a fishing business .
22 That was much appreciated by the El Salvadorean Government and helped to bring the perpetrators of that murder to justice .
23 The cream silk backing seemed an obvious choice as it blended with the cream of the frame and helped to keep the colour combination very gentle .
24 A feather duvet warmed the patient and helped to check the effect of shock .
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