Example sentences of "[noun] help [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Chancellor is ploughing £4 billion into industry to help pull it out of the doldrums . |
| 2 | When the Toronto-based journalist Leo Heaps wrote a book detailing the secrets of their rise to power , pressure from the brothers helped ensue it never appeared . |
| 3 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
| 4 | If the patient 's foot tends to twist as he stands on it , he may be given a special ankle support to help hold it comfortably in position . |
| 5 | The average farmer should be able to cope with the explanatory booklet , the form to fill in , explanatory notes to help fill it in , and a letter from Sir Hector Monro , Scottish Agriculture Minister . |
| 6 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 7 | The new day ward is named after the late Doris Field , whose money helped get it going . |
| 8 | As a layer of gravel will be put into the base of the jar to help weight it down these slots should be just above this layer otherwise a strong powerhead could pull it into the pipe and block it . |
| 9 | What was this war coming to and where would it all end when they were taking on lassies to help fight it ? |
| 10 | Penguin has produced a beer mat to help promote it . |
| 11 | In 839 several things helped revive it . |
| 12 | He reckons that if he were getting paid on the same basis that he gets paid for GP beds , in a small GP unit , he could afford to employ the additional staff , and resources and back-up to help make it all happen . |
| 13 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 14 | Because that is the aim , razzamatazz , music , flags , balloons , streamers and placards are appropriate means to help achieve it . |
| 15 | With the redundancy money , pittance though it is , plus a small bank loan to help pad it out , I should just about be able to afford to rent and equip a small workshop . ’ |
| 16 | It was important to retain Lloyd George , not just as the man who had won the war but also as a man who could talk to the working class ; and if a revolutionary situation were to arise , then it would be far better if Unionists could call on Liberals to help resist it . |
| 17 | He became chairman of the repertory club , and his business sense helped set it on its feet . |
| 18 | It was significant that , when the war took a grave turn the following year , it was to every Anglican incumbent in the land ( and no doubt to many others , though I can speak only for the parish clergy ) that Duff Cooper , the Home Secretary , sent letters expressing apprehension of the state of public morale and urging the incumbents to do their utmost to help raise it . |
| 19 | If it 's flush and you 're flush mounting the new one , unscrew it and prise it out of the wall ( you may need to cut through the plaster first with an old knife to help free it ) . |
| 20 | Each in turn looked to others in the audience to help enforce it . |
| 21 | yep , good it has that creative element about it does n't it because as you say if you get them to produce it get the audience to help produce it then again it 's involvement and the whole thing is is erm more spontaneous than than pre-prepared . |
| 22 | It was essentially an extension of the friendly society schemes — the societies helped administer it — but it also covered occupational groups that had never been able to be members . |
| 23 | Commenting that the Council had an " urgent obligation to intervene … to end the carnage " , he urged the rapid appointment of a special representative who would investigate the violence and help the UN decide on appropriate measures to help end it . |
| 24 | A long-standing sufferer of this terrible condition , thought to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain , he once said that living in the country helped control it . |