Example sentences of "help [vb infin] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | SERC chairman Sir Mark Richmond announced that it is being given additional support to help achieve some of NCS 's recommendations . |
| 8 | This helped formulate some of the 600 questions and devise a reply scoring system . |
| 9 | She discussed the idea with her sister-in-law Mabel , and asked her if she would like to come along to help choose some suitable fabric . |
| 10 | America is a stolen country , and I want to help give some of it back to its rightful owners ’ |
| 11 | Amnesty 's major Sri Lanka ( September-December 1990 ) succeeded , against considerable obstacles , in bringing the tragedy of Sri Lanka to the attention of the world , and helped generate some fresh signs of change . |
| 12 | The special needs allowance package is a grant which will be available to housing associations and co-operatives to help finance some of the additional costs needed to provide support accommodation . |
| 13 | To help clarify some of these issues , a single experimental study was undertaken to compare the effects of dietary calcium and 70% small bowel resection on experimental colonic tumourigenesis and crypt cell proliferation in the terminal ileum , caecum , and distal colon , thereby permitting multivariate statistical analysis to determine independently significant and interacting factors influencing mucosal proliferation . |
| 14 | Margaret Charlwood will be taking a workshop session showing the Medau approach and would like to hear from anyone wishing to attend — especially those with cars who would be willing to help transport some disabled class members . |
| 15 | He has also asked if we can organise a rota of about 14 people to help take some of the burden from Alex with regards to looking after the hall . |
| 16 | A recent Bank project in north-west Brazil , Planaforo , which aims to help correct some of the damage caused to indigenous peoples by the Bank-funded road through Rondonia state , has itself come under attack . |
| 17 | His chum Charlie Price provided the engineering know-how to help get some of the battered old relics going . |
| 18 | To help tackle some of these questions we will now turn to examine the development of another recent set of local economic strategies , those designed to ‘ restructure for labour ’ . |
| 19 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it may be resorted to in order to help resolve some uncertainty or ambiguity in municipal law : per Lord Ackner in Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 , 761 . |
| 21 | We could make a plan of the street , we could ask each of the groups to find a reason to go to someone else 's " house " ; we could perhaps ask other people in the street to try to help resolve some of the disputes other people are having . |
| 22 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 23 | Whilst access to these acres helped alleviate some of the expansionist pressures the cost of transport or difficulty in maintaining adequate attention could lead to unacceptably high losses at times . |
| 24 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 25 | It 's a question that their parents may also be unable to answer , so it 's important that students be given some idea of what it 's like to earn one 's living creatively as early as possible , and so help dispel some of the fear and disbelief that discussions about this ‘ odd ’ way of working always seem to produce . |
| 26 | These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated . |
| 27 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 28 | These are all concerns central to our own current culture , and the essays help detail some of Shakespeare 's negotiations with us as well as the possible ‘ social energy ’ of his own era . |
| 29 | We will keep our rates at around £140–£150 , which will , I believe , help bring some stability . |
| 30 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |