Example sentences of "have helped [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 2 | Even a small amount of power from that engine would have helped to offset the tremendous drag of the wheels hanging out . |
| 3 | The theory is primarily inductive in nature and so lacks explanatory value but it may have helped to counter the trend towards specialization in science . |
| 4 | Later in the same year the MWCo was instrumental in having a receiver appointed to run the railway — a move which may well have helped to keep the BCR alive for so many years . |
| 5 | Kaifu 's government had been forced on Sept. 30 to abandon plans for a major constitutional reform which might have helped to end the LDP 's factional in-fighting . |
| 6 | However , it is arguable that representatives of subject areas not so conventionally identified with the notion of a school library ( e.g. art , science , and computer studies ) might have helped to break the stereotypical view of school libraries as the preserve of the English department and provided the team with some refreshingly different perspectives . |
| 7 | Whilst this use of ‘ creative ’ accountancy may have helped to avoid the harsh reality of nuclear power 's burdensome construction charges , there have also been major problems in the area of running costs . |
| 8 | Travellers might gradually have helped to make the marker more obvious . |
| 9 | All this may have helped to clear the way for Dan Quayle , the much lampooned vice-president who dodged the draft by joining the National Guard . |
| 10 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
| 11 | The recordings would have helped to establish the role played by the police . |
| 12 | That , the report concludes , ’ would make it difficult to provide a constructive regime which would have helped to alleviate the dehumanising effects of the insanitary and unsatisfactory physical conditions within the prison . ’ |
| 13 | AN INDIAN journalist yesterday accused his editor of suppressing information that might have helped to identify the recipients of millions of dollars in bribes allegedly paid to Indian officials by the Bofors armaments company , a scandal which has caused acute embarrassment to Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 14 | More body to the English String Orchestra ( an idiosyncratic name , given all the wind and other instruments which take part ) might have helped to throw the piece into clearer focus , but , in the final Presto — a rapid perpetuum mobile — they are at least all precise . |