Example sentences of "it helped [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse .
2 It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier .
3 Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills .
4 Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations .
5 This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians .
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