Example sentences of "may help [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may help to refer the patient to other agencies ( e.g. social services , a psychosexual problems clinic , self-help groups ) . |
| 2 | Drawing attention to paid visits back to the home country may help to reassure the family that they will not be completely cut off from relatives and friends . |
| 3 | To those who are still reading , firstly my thanks , secondly a warning ( this section is filled with questions rather than answers ) and thirdly some encouragement to read on , in that doing so may help to maximise the utility of the book as a whole . |
| 4 | On the one hand , their arrival may add to the demand for retailing and educational facilities , which may help to sustain the village shop or school ; on the other , their children may attend other more distant schools and the newcomers may shop in the adjacent towns so that , if they have ‘ replaced ’ locals , there may be a downturn in demand , which could even precipitate the closure of these facilities . |
| 5 | In addition , microtubules may be involved in the internal alignment of platelet organelles before the release reaction and , furthermore , may help govern the degree of response to circulating agonists ( White et al , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | These are partly shielded by small flaps of skin on each side which form a corridor and may help to guide the babies towards them . |
| 7 | For example it is reported that overstocking in litter-based poultry will result in an overloaded offensive litter ; whilst understocking may also be undesirable , since this may result in a dry and dusty litter which may help disperse the odour over a wide area , unless dust filters are installed . |
| 8 | Visitor attractions at off-peak times or in off-season periods are unlikely to have any significant effect in reducing peaks , but they may help to spread the loading on staff time . |
| 9 | For instance , if examples in which females play an active role appear as often as those in which the active person is male , this may help counteract the prevailing view in society that mathematics is primarily an activity for males . |
| 10 | If his head tends to drop forward towards his plate as he eats , it may help to put the plate on a raised block on the table to reduce the distance from plate to face . |
| 11 | We 're keen to trace him because he might be able to tell us something like a piece of a jigsaw really that may help to put the case together |
| 12 | In contrast , the electrolyte cations are at relatively high concentrations in gastric juice and these may help to stimulate the absorption of trace metals in the intestine from the diet . |
| 13 | This may help to explain the difficulty faced in involving small businesses in partnership activities . |
| 14 | Perhaps this may help to explain the determination of the anorexic to go on starving herself : without anorexia , I should have been nothing . |
| 15 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 16 | A moving letter , written in May 1944 , may help to explain the welcome which the National Health Service received four years later . |
| 17 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 18 | It is possible also that viticulture was practised in the southern limestone and chalk areas , and this may help to explain the particular wealth of the Cotswolds and North Oxfordshire , although secure evidence is still lacking . |
| 19 | The converse point may help to explain the phenomenon of the two middle-class women who said they ‘ disliked ’ housework yet showed evidence of satisfaction with it . |
| 20 | This may help to explain the suspicion entertained by many of his friends that they were being placed in special compartments , never to mingle with those in other compartments , like cells in the honeycomb of his private life . |
| 21 | Such observations may help to explain the protracted sense of crisis in the humanities ; but the model also offers the possibility of regrouping the traditional concerns of the humanities around the notion of ‘ being ’ , if that concept can be allowed . |
| 22 | The most obvious exception is tin , the main export of Bolivia , which may help to explain the Soviet Union 's especial enthusiasm for its relations with Bolivia , which have survived that country 's numerous changes of government . |
| 23 | The explanation of these divergencies may help to explain the working of the single transferable vote and its underlying principles . |
| 24 | This may help to explain the decentralisation of manufacturing industry from inner cities to outer areas , |
| 25 | Although some of the grievances voiced in 1381 concerned these same matters , there were other factors at work too , which may help to explain the special character of this rising . |
| 26 | Professor Goodship has also found that in extended trot , the suspensory ligament comes under a high loading stress and this may help to explain the high incidence of suspensory ligament injuries in trotters . |
| 27 | On the one hand , and most obviously , it comprises a set of repressive practices which among other things may help to preserve the conditions of production by deterring crime . |
| 28 | There 's a rosier future in store for migraine sufferers whose attacks are triggered by fluorescent lights , because rose-tinted glasses may help to combat the problem . |
| 29 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 30 | Large apparatus to climb into/out of/through/under/over , and push/pull toys of various sizes may help to give the children ideas of weight , speed , height , width and length , while increasing their spatial awareness . |