Example sentences of "help [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 2 | One Tory MP , an aristocrat of impeccable right-wing views , who helped renegotiate some of Romania 's debts at the beginning of the hard years in the 1980s , also enjoyed joking with Ceauşescu . |
| 3 | I mean , I was there er , I left yesterday afternoon , I mean , I had to go in early and we had erm an auction and I helped do that . |
| 4 | The author and the Editor would like to thank the scientists who helped keep these tales within the bounds of fact : entomologist Dr John Maunder and parasitologist Dr Ian Burgess , both of the University of Cambridge . |
| 5 | Within a union as large , as diverse , as it is , the sectional conference has , in our case , helped allay many of these fears and concerns and our own clothing and textile industry is still as active as ever . |
| 6 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 7 | It is also advisable to float something on the surface of a concrete pond to help absorb some of the pressure produced by the ice patch , an empty , sealed lemonade bottle , plastic football , large piece of cork or even a tennis ball will do the job admirably . |
| 8 | After he and Anne had gone to the Red Cross centre to help comfort some of his neighbours , he told a friend , ‘ Thank God , I 'm not poor ! ’ |
| 9 | Geoff Boycott is one of an 11-strong coaching team assembled by the England manager , Micky Stewart , to help prepare this winter 's touring sides to West Indies and Zimbabwe . |
| 10 | to find out the needs of parents of children under five and work with them to help facilitate those needs , … to help parents help their children acquire useful skills and act as a bridge between home and school , … and to increase a shared community spirit and foster an attitude of sharing and support between parents and other parents in the local neighbourhood , alongside the paid professionals and voluntary agencies . |
| 11 | Janet was determined yesterday not to help answer these questions . |
| 12 | The council should offer help , if it can , to help upgrade those shops in the streets affected by changes of access . |
| 13 | Here is a fault-finding guide to help locate any problems that might arise when producing boards with the ultra-violet technique . |
| 14 | This strong logo identifies a major PR campaign to help make all who love football support the game in a friendly way . |
| 15 | There are some ways to help make this happen . |
| 16 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 17 | We are relying on you and all the other volunteers around the U K in your contacts with the public to help make this year a success . |
| 18 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 19 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 20 | This leaflet has been prepared to help explain this new scheme and how it might affect you . |
| 21 | There is a strong tradition that it is bad luck to disturb a standing stone or stone circle and fear of retribution has undoubtedly helped preserve many that might otherwise have been removed for building stone , gateposts and the like . |
| 22 | This project sets out to help rectify this by providing an overview of police crime prevention practices in England and Wales . |
| 23 | The aim is to allow emergency expertise to be summoned from other regions or countries at a moment 's notice to help combat any natural or man-made disasters , such as oil spills or fires . |
| 24 | Heavy overnight rain has helped swell some rivers … but elsewhere the flooding seems to have peaked , and forecasters say the worst is over … at least for now . |
| 25 | This weight-loss diet is very carefully balanced to help minimize these problems . |
| 26 | The sleeves are n't continuous but are colour coded to help identify each arch . |
| 27 | The VHPB aims to develop clear guidelines to help identify those at risk , and to implement successful vaccination programmes to overcome this uneven protection of at risk workers . |
| 28 | These results suggest , first , that simultaneous 24 hour ambulatory oesophageal and gastric pH monitoring is helpful in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus to help identify those patients at greater risk of developing complications . |
| 29 | If , in spite of treatment , the foetus is shown to be severely affected the woman may be offered the choice of terminating the pregnancy or undertaking a further course of treatment to help prevent more damage . |
| 30 | ‘ We would like to lend our support to the appeal because we would like to help prevent this happening to other families in the future . ’ |