Example sentences of "[noun] help it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you open up the throttle , you need to move to the front of the boat to help it rise on to the plane . |
| 2 | He thought it quite possible that Pike had starved the horse to help it recover from its leg injury . |
| 3 | Its speed helps it survive to have children ; and therefore more copies of all its genes , including the gene for fast running , are passed on . |
| 4 | Scissor-snip the bacon fat at intervals to help it release its fat . |
| 5 | AEA itself has appointed consultants and merchant bankers to help it develop and refine its work on strategic options as its contributions to the DTI review . |
| 6 | Its hard wood helps it resist cold winters , and its thick-skinned grapes are almost impervious to rain , disease and insects . |
| 7 | Rather than going it alone , 3Com Corp , San Jose has picked Cascade Communications Corp to help it enter the Frame Relay market . |
| 8 | On July 27 , 1989 , the Pakistani Minister of State for Finance , Ehsanul Haq Piracha , opening the third session of the Nepal-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission in Kathmandu , assured Nepal of support to help it overcome problems resulting from the trade blockade with India . |
| 9 | SunPro , Sun Microsystems Inc 's software development operation , is bringing in Russian software expertise to help it develop compiler-level products which will improve the performance of applications running on Sparc RISC-based systems . |
| 10 | Then the trade deficit will make it hard to lower interest rates without undermining sterling , while at the same time reinforcing industry 's demands for cheaper money to help it compete . |
| 11 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 12 | Strategy Europe , the environmental public affairs group , is looking for an ad agency or marketing consultancy to help it promote an audio cassette entitled ‘ Global Warming — the debate ’ . |
| 13 | Free flow : dust your scales with flour when you 're weighing treacle to help it flow off a little more easily . |
| 14 | Trafford education authority has received about £13 million in the past two years to help it reorganise and improve its schools . |
| 15 | Among problems raising doubts over the ‘ special relationship ’ before Mr Major 's arrival was a claim that Airbus Industrie , the consortium which includes British Aerospace , had received unfair subsidies to help it compete with American aircraft builders . |
| 16 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 17 | THE FT-SE 100-Share Index fell nearly 50 points by mid-afternoon yesterday and was in imminent danger of dropping below 2,900 before a late rally helped it recover to close at 2,915.9 , down 37.5 on the day , in busy trading . |
| 18 | The Namibian government has turned to South Africa to help it prevent illegal fishing in its territorial waters . |
| 19 | However , due to the limited capacities of the Committee it was recommended that the group should concentrate on running the centre more effectively for the time being and to engage management consultants to help it develop the capacity to run more complicated projects . |
| 20 | The US House of Representatives approved on March 10 a US$4,100 million emergency spending bill containing US$650 million in aid for Israel to help it meet expenses caused by the Gulf war . |
| 21 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 22 | Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH , operator of the D2 digital cellular network in Germany , has secured an eight-year $700m credit facility to help it fund the planning , establishment and operation of the mobile phone network , which has some 200,000 customers at present . |
| 23 | Singapore may have to look to China to help it meet its labour needs in future . |
| 24 | In the meantime , a leading US food manufacturer is pressing for an exclusive deal with Staley to help it challenge rivals which already product diet cakes and desserts based on Simpless and other formulations . |
| 25 | Science had guided the USA in ‘ conquering ’ nature ; so why could not scientific method help it control international society ? |
| 26 | Tiny protein structures protrude — like flagellae to help it move and pili to attach itself to surfaces . |
| 27 | It was also agreed at the summit that Peru should receive US$40,000,000 in aid from the other four Pact members to help it regain access to international credit lines . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which has n't said yet if it 's using NT , has Microsoft helping it support HP 's 4mm digital audio tape ( DAT ) drives for backup and archiving : Microsoft Corp will make it an icon on the NT screen . |
| 29 | This ‘ Champagne ’ image helped it recover . |
| 30 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |