Example sentences of "[pron] help [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 2 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 3 | The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine . |
| 4 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 5 | Volkswagen , which helped develop the smaller Eurobag specifically for smaller cars , introduced the Eurobag as optional equipment on the Golf last year and has now made it available on the Passat saloon as well . |
| 6 | Major conservation organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature , which helped finance the Namibian de-horning , are opposed to the move , on the grounds that a legal market will only encourage poaching elsewhere in Africa and Asia . |
| 7 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 8 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 9 | It uses Tungsten Plug technology , which helps integrate the various elements in the chip in as small a package as possible . |
| 10 | It uses Tungsten Plug technology , which helps integrate the various elements in the chip in as small a package as possible . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is not too late , by some sort of active ‘ tending ’ , to re-create the atmospheres of ancient sites by reintroducing plants which may once have been there , so that they can again contribute their specific fragrance , their own note which helps create the ethereal music of the place . |
| 12 | The £6.5m scheme is backed by a £1.4m Government City Grant , which helps keep the new homes at a price local people can hopefully afford . |
| 13 | The Ranfurly Library Service is a charity which helps combat the critical shortage of books in developing countries , by providing carefully selected consignments of books in response to urgent requests from schools , colleges , hospitals and other institutions . |
| 14 | Turkey has some of the greatest historic sites of the world , good beaches , a long summer season , good food , and ( unusual for the Mediterranean ! ) really energetic people with a fine sense of service — which helps overcome the occasional power cuts and plumbing disasters . |
| 15 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 16 | In the hands of this artist , this transcription sounds as it surely was intended — as Busoni 's ‘ eighth elegy ’ , complete with delicate bell-like arpeggios , subtle sequential off-shoots , and a thickening of textures which help elucidate the Schoenbergian language . |
| 17 | In conjunction with partners , we have developed two new processes which help produce the modified ( oxygenated ) fuel cost-effectively . |
| 18 | This reform , though of crucial importance in countering the current distortion in the job market towards part-time employment , does nothing to help eradicate the high marginal rates of tax faced by people leaving unemployment and gaining work , or of low-paid workers striving to gain real increases in their net take home pay . |
| 19 | As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary . |
| 20 | Among those who helped create the public library system in England were the benefactor Andrew Carnegie , whose libraries can be found from Ayr to Brentford , W.H. Smith , whose eponymous book chain still is bookselling for the average English man and woman , and Mr Gladstone . |
| 21 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 22 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 23 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 24 | But together , they 've come up with this ; a life-size bronze statue of a railway navvy , typical of the hundreds who helped build the Chiltern Line at the start of the century . |
| 25 | A psychologist who helped organise the German survey said : ‘ The double bed should not be treated as a self-service supermarket for sex . |
| 26 | Those of us who helped constitute the large House of Commons majority in favour of the principle of joining the community did so with our eyes open . |
| 27 | Lisa Philips , a curator who helped mount the trendy Biennials of the 1980s , decried ‘ Eighties-bashing ’ while announcing the trend of the '90s : ‘ Today everybody 's talking about gender , identity and power the way they talked about the grid in the late Sixties and early Seventies ’ . |
| 28 | Also honoured in the New Year 's Homours List — Monica Drinkwater — the woman who helped steer the Conservative Party through one of its most damaging episodes in recent years . |
| 29 | Faith , who helps run the local mother-and-toddler group , is n't alone in the way she feels . |
| 30 | ‘ Will you help run the lucky dip stall at the summer fayre from 1 pm until 3.30pm ? ’ is more likely to get a positive answer than a general plea for help with the summer fayre . |