Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] help [vb infin] " 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 | We will also look at a simple form of self-massage to help banish cellulite . |
| 3 | They have a staff of three to help administer Koraloona . |
| 4 | His father died suddenly and Swindin had to leave school and start work at the age of fourteen to help support the family . |
| 5 | A bowl of fruit in your room , a bottle of wine , a special meal or commemorative glass of bubbly to help celebrate your great occasions . |
| 6 | Recipe Maker is an application designed for windows 3.0 or above that helps make the weekly meal planning , grocery shopping and recipe organising much easier . |
| 7 | The planks need a bearing of only 50 — 75mm each side , with one or two ventilation holes of about 25mm diameter bored in each to help keep the pit aired it 's covered . |
| 8 | The two main beneficiaries are the local Sue Ryder Home and the Keighley Adult Training Centre for the mentally handicapped , but £2,500 was donated in 1986 to help start a special child development unit at Airedale Hospital . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The wide-ranging package includes a 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax from 1995 to help close the budget deficit resulting from the cost of financing the recovery in the east . |
| 11 | During the later decades of the century , scientists were active in organizations such as the Sierra Club , founded by John Muir in 1892 to help preserve Yosemite and other natural wonders in California . |
| 12 | The USA was to contribute US$25,000,000 ; funding both for the new science centre , and for help in moving and storing nuclear warheads safely , would come out of a US$400,000,000 fund approved by Congress in 1991 to help dismantle and remove Soviet nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | The NEB was created by the government in 1975 to help restructure British industry by selective intervention , particularly in areas of high unemployment . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the World Bank said in Washington on Dec. 6 that a US$500,000,000 structural adjustment loan for India had been approved to support reforms in the state-controlled economy ; a further US$400,000,000 would be allocated in 1992 to help finance the streamlining of the public sector . |
| 15 | MINTEC was established in 1964 to help revitalise British industry through the application of technology . |
| 16 | His decisive handling of affairs at the outbreak of war in 1914 helped avert a financial crisis , and he was invited to remain in office beyond the normal two years . |
| 17 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 18 | He also pursued finance , and in 1848 helped reorganize the banking firm of Magniac , Jardine , which as Matheson & Company became a financial giant in the City , and within which he became ‘ Uncle James ’ . |
| 19 | The father opposed Hitler and spent a year in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied France , then returned to Berlin in 1945 to help build a new Germany . |
| 20 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
| 21 | On a day when rain wrecked the second day 's play in matches up and down the country only three got going the Pakistani pace ace bagged five for 60 to help shoot out the visitors for 166 , a deficit of 116 . |