Example sentences of "[adj] help [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spinner Nick Cook 's four for 22 helped restrict the Welshmen to 169 for nine but Northants were made to sweat before gaining victory despite solid knocks from Robin Bailey ( 49 ) and David Capel ( 47 ) . |
| 2 | This helped to anchor the sides to the base and maximized reliability , for a base board nailed to the underneath of the sides might have failed on lifting . |
| 3 | All patients received ursodeoxycholic acid ( 5 mg/kg/day ) and chenodeoxycholic acid ( 7 mg/kg/day ) for a period of at least three months after the procedure as previous experience with percutaneous cholecystolithotripsy had suggested that this helped to remove the fragments noted at the review examination . |
| 4 | This helped to maintain the return on shareholders ' investment . |
| 5 | This helped to alleviate the dreadful nature of the houses , which looked shocking from nearby , but which looked oddly bright and distinct and well-intentioned when glorified by mass and distance . |
| 6 | This helped to mask the odour of death if the corpse was to stay in the home , especially during the warmer summer months . |
| 7 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 8 | In the process this helped to balance the forward weight of the rib-cage housing the creature 's vital organs . |
| 9 | This helped to minimize the perceived risk . |
| 10 | It is clear from the tone of the Duke 's letter that these were staunch political friends , and in the case of one of them Montrose was even prepared to help to equip the son for his new life at sea , remarking , |
| 11 | BRITISH fighter pilots could be patrolling the skies over Bosnia within days after the Government yesterday made it clear it was willing to help enforce the United Nations no-fly zone . |
| 12 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 13 | This helped pave the way for the full-blooded domestication of the idea of Empire at the popular imperial exhibitions held first at Wembley and later in Glasgow between the wars . |
| 14 | Mendel points out that this helped pave the way for economic crises that aggravated social discontent before 1905 . |
| 15 | This helped persuade the Government to take action altering tax incentives for planting in the 1988 Budget . |
| 16 | To be mercenary , this helped elevate The Smiths into national notoriety . |
| 17 | This helps to reinforce the meaning of the structures students are learning , and ensures that form is rarely looked at in isolation . |
| 18 | This helps eliminate the noise that results from the speedy switching on CMOS devices . |
| 19 | The first thing to say is that the spool is large and ribbed — this helps stop the bedding in of line that can sometimes occur . |
| 20 | This helps to sustain the ‘ deferential ’ relationship between farmer and farm-worker(s) . |
| 21 | This helps to explain the extent to which local authorities have begun to work closely with housing associations and several left-wing councils have set up enterprise boards while others are heavily involved in local enterprise agencies . |
| 22 | This helps to explain the success of Whitbread 's ‘ umbrella ’ approach . |
| 23 | By the time Shaw preached his sermon , informed opinion recognized Gloucester 's accession as inevitable , and this helps to explain the apparent lack of interest with which the most nearly contemporary chroniclers treat the grounds for Edward V 's deposition . |
| 24 | By the time Shaw preached his sermon , informed opinion recognized Gloucester 's accession as inevitable , and this helps to explain the apparent lack of interest with which the most nearly contemporary chroniclers treat the grounds for Edward V 's deposition . |
| 25 | A further way of avoiding too much time in the air is to lift the back foot as you go over a wave , this helps to stop the nose lifting . |
| 26 | ‘ This helps make the gallery seem like a friendly place to them , rather than just somewhere other people go . ’ |
| 27 | This helps to improve the exporters ' cash flows and reduce overall debt administrative costs . |
| 28 | When all of the mixture had been applied , a cap was put on Jo 's head — this helps to retain the heat and promote colour strength . |
| 29 | This helps facilitate the organisation of labour and the servicing of rooms . |
| 30 | This helps explain the extraordinary spectacle here yesterday of 5,000 loudly ‘ anti-colonial ’ black people clamouring against independence and for political re-integration with South Africa . |