Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] help [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 2 | All the indicators show that parental support helps young people come through solvent abuse quicker . |
| 3 | In the case of the elder James Stephen 's commitment to antislavery , it came after the experience of working in the West Indies as a lawyer , but more precisely , that experience helped direct into antislavery the expression of his gratitude ‘ for the infinite mercy of God ’ in extricating him from the depths of sin brought on by sexual passion and setting him on the path of prosperity and happiness . |
| 4 | The ‘ kinship defenders ’ are more concerned to press for policy changes , such as more day-care provision to help one-parent families , as urgently necessary ; the other group perhaps sees such changes as more long term , as not immediately related to the needs of the children who are currently the subject of placement decisions . |
| 5 | If any groups within your parish could raise some money to help this project it would be most gratefully received . |
| 6 | At the same time Christians are committed to caring and compassionate action to help those who are homosexual , and all who suffer from AIDS or any sexually transmitted disease . |
| 7 | No EC country except France provided targeted assistance to help older unemployed people find new work , and France was also alone in banning the practice of putting age limits in job advertisements , it said . |
| 8 | There were limits , however , to how far he was ready to stimulate German demand to help other countries and he was critical of the Americans , British and others for doing too little to tackle inflation . |
| 9 | Even though it is generally recognised that , at best , the principles of operant conditioning described in Verbal Behaviour contribute but a small part to our understanding of the processes of language development , this does not immediately rule out the possibility of employing techniques based upon operant conditioning to help those children who are not developing language in the normal way . |
| 10 | But now , at almost 19 , Kirsty has found she loves painting and writing poetry and is hoping to be a social worker to help other youngsters like herself . |
| 11 | The opportunity to talk about feelings and experiences , and to ventilate anxieties , sadness , anger or despair is important , as is the ability to find some personal meaning in the experience — for instance , following the death of one 's child , believing that his or her suffering and treatment may in some way help other children with the same affliction in the future . |
| 12 | I would like to expand on the same topic by expressing my thoughts on the structures that exist , or fail to exist , in this country to help promising junior players become accomplished professionals . |
| 13 | High technology helps Third World farmers |
| 14 | He had claimed a silver at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and later that winter helped Western Australia add to their tally of Sheffield Shield triumphs . |
| 15 | We will also provide pastoral support to help those already in mission to function more effectively and we hope to do some more pastoral training to help us in this area of work . |
| 16 | He told The Scotsman : ‘ I think we have a moral responsibility to help these countries . |
| 17 | Additional funding to help developing countries in particular meet these goals is to be co-ordinated by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , jointly administered by the World Bank , and the UN 's Development and Environment Programmes ( UNDP and UNEP ) . |
| 18 | Together they planned a comprehensive Bill to help disabled people . |
| 19 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 20 | Confidence has risen most in Britain , where signs of economic recovery helped net optimism to 42% , more than twice its level in the first quarter . |
| 21 | We should move towards fisheries licencing and management on a more regional basis to help traditional fishing communities and protect those who fish sustainably , such as mackerel handliners . |
| 22 | The OpenVMS environment includes 13 VAX/VMS systems , so-called openness for VMS and an Alpha-ready programme to help existing customers migrate to the Alpha RISC systems as they become available . |
| 23 | An ideal programme to help those in poverty ( which is probably impossible to attain in reality ) may be defined as one which meets the needs of the people concerned , without adversely affecting their incentive to self-help , by which means the individuals might reduce or eliminate reliance ( or dependency ) on the state . |
| 24 | The modern origin of this approach is the Special Patrol Group ( SPG ) which was formed in London in 1965 to act as a mobile anti-crime group to help local police forces to deal with the rising rate of urban crime . |
| 25 | The sense of panic about over-population that had swept across England in the late sixteenth century , and had made emigration look like the answer to problems of poverty and disorder , had died down and there were even suggestions that a substantial population helped economic expansion . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , it was reported on Sept. 26 that the World Bank had authorized the creation of a special facility to grant concessional credit to help lower-middle income countries to re-settle migrant workers fleeing Iraq and Kuwait , and that it would advance disbursements from the Bank 's soft loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) , to the poorest countries . |
| 27 | Today they are not simply concerned with bringing legal disputes before the courts ; they also offer legal advice to help all kinds of people in different situations . |
| 28 | Certainly added visual information helps lip-reading , but , since Cued Speech is based on spoken phonemes to which deaf children may not have access , it is difficult to see how it affects language development as a whole . |
| 29 | ‘ We are in a good position to help strong management teams take advantage of this , ’ he said . |
| 30 | In her largeness of heart and her sincere desire to help all who needed it , Miss Green has never spared herself . |