Example sentences of "it help [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The day before he left was a Saturday and Nick and Carrie were going to spend it helping to harvest the small hay field at Druid 's Bottom .
2 As the most popular spiritual English classic , it helped to form the religious outlook of Catholics in England right up to the Reformation .
3 To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace .
4 It helps to use the paper-based index World Banking Abstracts or the CD-Rom product ABI/Inform , as well as our in-line catalogue .
5 It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security .
6 Although it helps to illustrate the multi-vibrator family in this way , here we are really concerned with the electronic version .
7 But it helps to illustrate the general lesson .
8 It helps to emphasise the elderly person 's past strengths and coping abilities .
9 And secondly it helps to combat the unconscious drift from inevitable professional limitation to guilt-inducing personal inadequacy which the injunctions , like unseen magnets , are trying to bring about .
10 The system operated by the park authorities to limit numbers into the Canyon can be tiresome and bureaucratic , although it helps to retain the essential peace , solitude and ecology of the area .
11 It helps to promote the political stability and economic growth that is an essential backdrop to any kind of lasting change .
12 There are three kinds of seed and it helps to know the Latin names :
13 Before you start it helps to understand the differing functions of the various types of fixtures available .
14 The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress .
15 It helps to make the visual association moving and in colour .
16 Although this can lead to frustration for car drivers — especially in the summer when large queues build up — it helps limit the environmental damage to this very special area .
17 This is in contrast to the situation in capitalist countries where education reflects the authoritarian and exploitative values of the factory system with the result that it helps to reproduce the capitalist system of production which is inherently inefficient .
18 . California , the richest and largest state in America , here the state lottery is big business , with annual sales of more than one point seven billion dollars , it helps fill the Federal coffers through taxation and provides about one percent of the states education budget .
  Next page