Example sentences of "it helped [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 171-km canal link between the Main and the Danube in south-east Germany was opened on Sept. 25 ; it helped to create a 3,500-km continuous navigable waterway from the Netherlands North Sea port of Rotterdam to Constanza on Romania 's Black Sea coast . |
| 2 | By showing how every soul could make its own way to God , without the mediation of priests or ministers of the educated classes , it helped to give a sense of dignity and individual worth to thousands who were turned off their land by enclosures and absorbed by the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | I would say that the CNAA was responsible for establishing the arts in higher education , first as subjects valid for higher education , and second as subjects valuable to the country , in other words it helped to establish a national reputation for the arts at this level , which had never existed before . |
| 4 | A critical examination of the Soviet past , as in Andreeva 's letter , was a necessary part of perestroika in that it helped to provide a better , clearer picture of the way forward . |
| 5 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It helped create a feeling of timelessness . |
| 8 | Built in the early 1980s to meet spiralling demand in Surrey 's golf-crazy commuter heartland , it helped to solve a seemingly impossible problem for many budding golfers . |