Example sentences of "[coord] to help [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 2 | If you take it to make yourself numb , in order to forget or to help you sleep , you are only using it to mask the symptoms of a distressing situation which will still be there tomorrow . |
| 3 | Time-lines can be used to describe a chronological narrative of events or to help you to analyse the inter-relationships ' of different factors , events and places . |
| 4 | They realise that Compact enables them to have a say in the shape of education for the 1990s and to help them meet their projected employment needs . |
| 5 | The centre 's goal has been to enhance the quality of life of people who have cancer , and to possibly allay progression of the disease ; to give people some feeling of control over their lives and their healthcare , and to help them cope better with having cancer . |
| 6 | The women 's organizations in Nicaragua and ANDES 21 de junio , the teachers ' association , have arranged weekly visits to the camps to talk to the women about the political situation in El Salvador and to help them organize collectively : |
| 7 | Answer guide : To help them control the level of their expenditure , to assist in planning future levels of expenditure , to help them raise additional finance ( e g. mortgages , hire-purchase etc. ) , and to help them decide the best way to spend their money . |
| 8 | Thirdly we can support training schemes designed to improve the employability of local people and to help them get jobs . |
| 9 | to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself . |
| 10 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 11 | We have a lot of people prepared to give of their time voluntarily to help young people get the kind of training they require and to help them find jobs . |
| 12 | The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , which became law in 1970 , revolutionised the public attitude to the disabled , including the deaf , by imposing statutory duties upon local authorities to provide for their welfare and to help them to overcome their disabilities . |
| 13 | There are lots of fluids out there , they are there for the embalmer to increase his expertise and to help him make his cases better , the chemical companies give technical support and do a lot of research into their products . |
| 14 | She has to know how to deliver appropriate information to the patient , to overcome the neurological deficit which is the result of the brain damage , and to help him react in the way she wishes by producing carefully controlled movements . |
| 15 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 16 | They can be helped to relate to the disturbed individual in the most supportive manner ( Leff et al. , 1982 ) , and to help him develop positive skills ( Falloon et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 18 | Julie 's award for being the happiest customer was a large teddy bear ‘ Thoroughbred Ted ’ — the emblem adopted by Lloyds Banks to promote the campaign — and to help her celebrate , and keep smiling , a bottle of champagne ! |
| 19 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 20 | First then , continuing our series of programmes on applications of computers , today we 're going to look at the so-called microprocessor , and to help me do this I have Doctor Fred Halsall and Doctor Paul Lister , who are engineers and specialists in this particular area . |
| 21 | And to help me provide some answers , I have with me Dick Grimsdale , who is Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the university ; Joe Turner , who is a Developmental Psychologist ; and Peter Dauber , who is a Physicist and colleague of mine . |
| 22 | While Davidge could not at that time be more specific , he observed , ‘ the appointment of Sir Anthony is intended to stimulate discussion and to help us rexamine all existing and potential services ’ . |
| 23 | He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it . |
| 24 | In chapter 27 , when Jacob steals his blessing , the writer goes to great lengths , as we have indicated already , to evoke our sympathy for Esau , and to help us share his anguish . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes we laugh to cover up nervousness and to help us relax . |
| 26 | The Attorney General will soon convene a crime summit of our nation 's law enforcement officials , and to help us support them we need tough crime control legislation , and we need it now . |
| 27 | Quite a number of speakers stressed the importance of events like this to bring people together and to help us recognise our collective strengths . |
| 28 | And to help us to try to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls to be avoided . |
| 29 | The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions . |
| 30 | R.S. used Hill and Knowlton to research the five counties and to help it produce the relocation documentation . |