Example sentences of "not help [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an observation as that ‘ election riots were almost as old as the game laws : they too date from the Middle Ages and did not die out until the 1870's ’ does not help to settle the matter . |
| 2 | Every time you took a breath of that foul air you could not help imagining the cholera poison gnawing at your lungs . |
| 3 | He could not help touching the pupils ; extensive re-training was required . |
| 4 | That is not to say technological effort can not help maximise the value of assets . |
| 5 | And now the train was taking me to Aunt Louise through the quiet countryside , and in spite of my preoccupation I could not help enjoying the journey . |
| 6 | Leaves were falling but the sun shone , and I could not help enjoying the ride , so stately in the funeral limousine . |
| 7 | We can not but be overwhelmingly impressed by what the Chinese have achieved in the country and elsewhere , but at the same time we can not help seeing the comic side of the rituals in which we find ourselves participating . |
| 8 | Would that fact not help to explain the presence of a phobia about fire in this lifetime ? |
| 9 | And besides the coincidence of his getting a new handler , without explanation , right after the disaster , Coleman could not help remembering the schoolboy password routine he had been given on joining the DIA . |
| 10 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 11 | In its ruling , however , the IWT also drew attention to the issue of energy use per se : " ( Environmental ) procedures and the generation of ever more information on impacts do not help avoid the essential issue that industrialized countries should reduce their wasteful energy consumption , rather than enlarging the capacity to create energy " . |
| 12 | Give the lack of resources and expertise in state organisations , one can not help thinking the same thing about this new initiative . |
| 13 | Marx 's central contention is that the capitalist economy sows the seeds of its own destruction , that it can not help creating the forces that will destroy it as a product of its own internal contradictions . |
| 14 | The Contempt of Court Act 1981 does not help to resolve the general problem since it simply defines a ‘ court ’ as including ‘ tribunal or body exercising the judicial power of the State . ’ |
| 15 | When the waiter came to take our orders , I could not help noticing the massive sexual equipment outlined by his soft cotton pants . |
| 16 | She could not help noticing the untidy grime of the house , and because she wanted to please the women who lived there , she began to clean . |
| 17 | More frequent medical examinations would not help reduce the risk ; the tests currently available that might indicate , for example , whether an increased coronary risk does or does not exist , themselves carry a risk that exceeds that which we are endeavouring to protect against . |
| 18 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 19 | John Stuart Mill can not help claiming the suffrage for the Negro — and the woman . |
| 20 | Workouts featured by stars like Hollywood tough guy Dolph Lundgren and TVam 's Lizzie Webb may not help fight the flab and could land you in bed for weeks , says BBC TV 's Watchdog . |
| 21 | As he got to know Minton well , Tindle could not help admiring the older man 's flair for living and the way his response was never dense or dead . |
| 22 | There were inconsistencies here , though : despite himself , d'Indy could not help admiring the Lutheran J. S. Bach . |
| 23 | Customers who were not known to smile for years actually could not help making the odd comment to the cashiers . |
| 24 | Caught at such a weak moment , the client could not help feeling the situation was urgent , and was often more susceptible to persuasion . |
| 25 | I felt , and this was shared by the media action people , that , apart from one sketch , the dialogue between the actors did not help to get the message across although did provide a contrast to the ‘ voices of authority ’ Councillor Begg and the DJ voiceover . |
| 26 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 27 | They both express the same , slightly ironic , delight in the munificence of old houses : Cobbett , when walking through the Duke of Buckingham 's park , remarks in a manner that anticipates Harold Skimpole 's : ‘ I , like POPE 'S cock in the farm-yard , could not help thanking the DUKE and DUCHESS for having generously made such ample provision for our pleasure . |
| 28 | It had nothing to do with the struggle ; it would n't help beat the Black and Tans . |
| 29 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 30 | She could n't help remembering the way Josh had looked , that afternoon in the front parlour , so wrapped up in his own misery she could n't reach him . |