Example sentences of "to help [pers pn] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another was the lack of an accurate theory to help them estimate those conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ This information can then be used to help them avoid those situations once they have given up . ’ |
| 3 | You may well find it easier to obtain people again , particularly with a new climate on employed volunteering , there 's no doubt about that , that there is a new attitude where companies are willing to encourage employees to spend their time and to help o to help them give minimum resources , to organise them . |
| 4 | They were ‘ dwarfs ’ at 5′ 8″ and were disparagingly said to ‘ need a helmet to help them appear big enough ’ . |
| 5 | Although the fish are probably using water currents , the sun or a magnetic sense to help them achieve this feat , it has long been suspected that smell is also involved . |
| 6 | This would be achieved by formulating a convention on climate change , to include legally binding protocols on cutting emissions of gases which contributed to global warming , and provisions for industrialized countries to provide financial and technical assistance to Third-World countries to help them achieve this without forgoing the benefits of industrial development . |
| 7 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 8 | It is clear that practitioners need a framework to help them manage this process , to produce a degree of consistency of purpose , scope , and content of assessment across different practitioners , whilst also enabling the assessment process to be adapted flexibly to individual people and their circumstances . |
| 9 | I believe it would be very helpful if we could establish a Campaign Fund to which branches could apply for grants to help them undertake innovative or special projects designed to strengthen their capacity to campaign . |
| 10 | Although they face daily and substantial fluctuations in demand for their output , they wish to ensure that they do have sufficient staff available to help them satisfy this demand . |
| 11 | Having educated our clients in relation to the psychology and physiology of anxiety , the next step is to help them break any patterns of avoidance that may have become established . |
| 12 | Wednesday 's tie , which Jack Charlton 's team need to win to help them reach next year 's World Cup finals in the US , will be shown live at about 70 Irish locations to supporters paying up to £10 a time . |
| 13 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 14 | There is a revolution taking place today in the way that executives are obtaining information to help them make critical business decisions . |
| 15 | While recognising that recent trends in health education are encouraging a move away from a purely topics-based programme , pupils need to have access to reliable information on a wide range of aspects of health to help them make informed judgements about healthy practices . |
| 16 | Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking . |
| 17 | The pupils who come to Learning Support are encouraged to look openly and realistically at their problems and to use departmental resources , staff , accommodation and equipment to help them resolve these problems . |
| 18 | It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers . |
| 19 | Many people feel that they would like to look after their children 's party themselves and this book is designed to help them do that . |
| 20 | To help them do this the Allies had , among other measures , resurrected Poland to stand as a barrier to the reunification of the German eastern lands . |
| 21 | They are being engaged in activities which have a direct relevance to work they are already involved in , and which they can see are designed to help them do this work more effectively . |
| 22 | Arrangements are currently under way for the University to provide the Graduates Association with more help and assistance for the future and to use the lists of the alumni that have recently been compiled , to help them enlist new members . |
| 23 | Activity Book for pupils , with games and exercises to help them gain full benefit from the video |
| 24 | In 1990 HCIMA launched its Accreditation of Prior Learning for those seeking recognition of their work-based learning to help them gain full membership . |
| 25 | They then return to the general office where their ‘ minder ’ is waiting to help them find any necessary information and work out some options for the client . |
| 26 | Although the prison is euphemistically called a rehabilitation centre , the women staff workers are known to arrange appointments for the prostitutes with the male guards in exchange for a small return and there is no attempt to train the women to help them find some other form of employment when they are freed . |
| 27 | In its response to a Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) consultation paper , the RA has also proposed setting up a network of footpaths around local communities , and financial support to farmers and landowners — through reform of the Common Agricultural Policy — to help them provide better access to their land . |
| 28 | Greece and Turkey will be asked to accept that the border between them must not be changed by force , and to agree to a set of ‘ confidence-building measures ’ — pull-backs from the border , inspectors on the ground , aerial reconnaissance — to help them trust each other . |
| 29 | Answer guide : To help them control the level of their expenditure , to assist in planning future levels of expenditure , to help them raise additional finance ( e g. mortgages , hire-purchase etc. ) , and to help them decide the best way to spend their money . |
| 30 | Scientists are now making use of the black widow spider 's venom to help them understand disabling human diseases . |