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

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1 The satisfaction of belonging to a worthwhile organisation and helping to promote the development of Medau work
2 However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it .
3 This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act .
4 He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) .
5 When the Secretary of State was helping to draft the declaration on the middle east peace process , did he have in mind the curfew that has been placed on the Nablus and Hebron areas and on the Al-Bireh area and did he have in mind the illegal occupation of the houses in the Silwan area of Jerusalem ?
6 He performed well in the Gulf War , helping to glue the coalition .
7 Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime .
8 For eight years Endill roamed around the big house , helping make the soups , walking through the hills , digging up the vegetables , bumping into his father by mistake and unscrewing the furniture when his mother was n't looking .
9 He tells the true story of a clergyman , Father Kleinsorge , who was helping to tend the wounded … .
10 The Government are helping to support the idea that coal is a pollutant but that nuclear power is green friendly and that gas is green friendly .
11 The knowledge that you are personally helping to support the future development of Medau work and the training of our teachers
12 He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart .
13 For example , they may frequently be given a role in maintaining employment and thus helping to preserve the political accommodations between classes upon which a successful response to the crisis depends ; this may conflict with their central role in the restructuring of industries in crisis .
14 By scattering the fertiliser pellets over his vineyard the vigneron is helping to restore the vine 's balance of resources .
15 Moreover the reparations clauses of the Treaty , far from helping to restore the economic life of Europe , merely complicated the enormous problems of putting the world economy back together again .
16 Russia , in helping to restore the museums in other former republics after the war , gave them works both from its own museum collections and from war booty .
17 We should be helping to conserve the environment and discouraging the unnecessary destruction of trees . ’
18 Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia .
19 Cathedrals are also , to a small extent , helping to revive the tradition of patronage which produced such riches in the past .
20 These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries .
21 ‘ Then let 'em come , ’ Lambert said , ‘ and we 'll keep the war warm for ‘ em , but for God 's sake do n't tell me I 'm helping to knacker the Kaiser by farting around in a clapped-out one-gun flying coffin , because I 've seen too much of it . ’
22 Planting is chosen for ease of maintenance and it is particularly useful to use the two trees , birch and sorbus provide vertical emphasis , helping to counteract the steep slope .
23 My report on this tour concluded with the words : ‘ I shall be grateful for any suggestions as to how this Department may co-operate in helping to meet the desperately urgent situation that is about to develop in the Delta villages . ’
24 The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability .
25 Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development .
26 Where possible give her some task to carry out during the outing for example , helping to find the items on a shopping list .
27 But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group .
28 Model mum Jilly and her little sidekick were helping to launch the NSPCC 's anti-whacking offensive in the wake of a survey about parenting .
29 The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere .
30 IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month .
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