Example sentences of "help [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Car producers will be given access to strong lightweight materials and advanced capacitors originally designed for weapons systems , while the Advanced Research Projects Agency will help design more efficient motors and fuel cells , and the Army Tank Command help on computer systems .
2 He argues , too , that the resolve of the settler families to keep control can help explain why Central America is a political , economic and cultural mess .
3 YET another lucrative sponsorship deal has been signed by the GAA — and it will help to stimulate even more interest in the National Football and Hurling Leagues .
4 He could n't help noticing how much she was being affected ; it was a sign , he supposed , of how she 'd come to consider the valley her home and its people her own .
5 Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) .
6 He turned her hand over , palm uppermost , and she could n't help noticing how strong and tanned his fingers were in contrast to her own .
7 A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes :
8 It was suggested that better training might help bring about some change .
9 Doubting can help to rule out possible faiths that will not do , but by itself it can not establish the faith that will .
10 And with your support , we can help give even more of these youngsters a better start in life .
11 This would have the merit of being convertible into hard currencies and enable the import of desperately needed consumer goods from the West , and it would help soak up excess ordinary roubles on the domestic market .
12 It may also help to set out some educational objectives against which the ideas will be tested ; these will channel the search into the area of interest .
13 This might also help break down some of the misconceptions that can grow up between organisations .
14 Because of the better opportunities in the States emigration from the West Indies was common at this time , and one can not help wondering how many more outstanding players might have graced their cricket had their parents not left .
15 However , I ca n't help wondering how many people after seeing the engraving based on Turner 's painting by Middiman and Pye of Hardraw Force got off their wagonettes and hurried through the door of the Green Dragon Inn — only to be underwhelmed by a narrow , peaceful , tree-clad valley that leads serenely to a rocky bow with a high fall dropping from its lip to the valley floor which , impressive though it certainly is ( particularly after heavy rains ) , is nothing like the falls depicted by Turner .
16 The Bill also imposes an automatic one-year driving ban , but I can not help wondering how many young people will be deterred by that — particularly as many of them drive without a licence anyway .
17 One could not help wondering how many tries the Australian , French , or dare I say it , English backs , would have run in that day , but double figures would not appear unreasonable even against an ordinary Welsh defence that is the norm in international rugby these days .
18 I must say , that I find er calls like the one there from from Nelly particularly shocking and and , and ca n't help wondering how widespread er , this is er across the area ?
19 This can help provide more domain-specific definitions , and reduce the combinatorial explosion produced by expanding definitions beyond the first level .
20 He says elderly people are not attacked in their homes very often , but the fear of attack is great and the campaign will help to play down those fears .
21 Improved revenue collection will help finance better conservation measures .
22 Mental exercise , including reading this book , will not help burn up any calories .
23 Seeking help from a professional counsellor , when things begin to go wrong , may help to avert more serious problems .
24 It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues …
25 But they provide real hope for the future : wind farms could help slow down global warming ( because they do n't give off any toxic emissions ) and they do n't use any of the planet 's precious resources .
26 There are now computer software tools which can help draw up these diagrams and make alterations easily .
27 The cross-fertilisation of information and technology from physics and chemistry , for example , can help to fill in some of archaeology 's missing pieces by ‘ bringing new techniques to bear on old major questions ’ , noted Harris .
28 The study should help to understand why indigenous growth has been limited and prove useful to agencies such as Scottish Enterprise and the TECs and LECs , which have made the development of local enterprises a high priority .
29 The culture and personal of the organisation — ie. the skill , knowledge and attitudes of subordinates , and the philosophy and psychological security of superiors , will help to determine how much delegation will be desired by the subordinates , and how far superiors will feel that they can trust the people below them .
30 Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs .
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