Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 LEARNING Shakespearian curses may help make the Bard 's work accessible to prisoners , but I doubt we 'll hear much Elizabethan abuse from them .
2 The research should help quantify the differences between older and younger drivers .
3 Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive .
4 A PLAN to teach food hygiene in Darlington schools could help combat the number of illnesses in the town , it has been claimed .
5 Police believe the footprint in blood could help trap the killer .
6 Together , Hunter and McColgan could help achieve the first British team success since the English women 's squad triumphed at Neuchatel , Swotzerland , in 1986 .
7 President Alberto Fujimori told the Peruvian Congress the next day that the accord would help combat the alliance of drug traffickers with " terrorist subversion " .
8 And that 's something that Mike and Ken will help dig the historical contracts out and , and suggest er a remit .
9 Do remember that strong arm muscles and shoulders will help protect the back .
10 Working in partnership with the education service , the careers service , training providers and employers , the TEC can help smooth the transition from education to work " ( Department of Employment 1989 ) .
11 I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation .
12 Unsafe working practices may be due to ignorance , and providing education and training about safer methods can help reduce the risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens .
13 Amendments to the Wildlife and Countryside Act should help stem the practise by making landowners more responsible for the actions of their gamekeepers .
14 The the lads underground used to send the blocks up , and the lads in the mill used to make produce the slates out of them , and they were all partners these four .
15 Many in the legal profession hoped that the Committee would help heal the rift between the two branches of the legal profession .
16 Under the terms of the agreement , representatives from these five countries would help oversee the movement of millions of tonnes of grain and other food aid expected to arrive at South African ports .
17 Seeking views on the future economic role of councils , the Scottish Office consultation paper on council reform suggested that a ‘ better defined statutory footing would help delineate the respective responsibilities of local authorities and other publicly funded organisations which are active in this field ’ .
18 Meantime the Government 's 24-hour monitoring station in Princes Street Gardens would help give the city centre background level .
19 President Julio Lacidar said that although the country was backward in some respects the First Five Year Plan would help launch the new nation .
20 Proceeds from the issue will help fund the Group 's investment programme in UK Homes and Minerals , and will give the financial flexibility needed to take advantage of the opportunities likely to emerge as the economy recovers .
21 The end of Mrs Green 's five-year battle will help pave the way for scores of other claims from servicemen and their families .
22 The profession as a whole will benefit , because improving the general quality of office and case management will help reduce the cost of claims and complaints ’ .
23 Use of tumour markers in patients presenting with metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown origin can help localise the probable primary sites and reduce the need for extensive and expensive imaging techniques .
24 James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House .
25 The yen 's rise could help trim the trade surplus in the long run as it could make U.S. exporters more competitive , although in the short-term that could help lift the amount of exports in dollar terms from Japan .
26 A POST-MORTEM examination may help explain the shooting tragedy that killed the son of late Kung Fu star Bruce Lee on a U.S. movie set which has suffered a spate of accidents .
27 The slump in profits has limited the scope for corporation tax offsets but economic recovery should help ease the problem .
28 Villa believe his comeback could help swing the title pendulum their way .
29 We examined the immunoreactivity of a large range of tumour marker antisera in a series of adenocarcinomas and their respective metastases to determine whether patterns of reactivity could help identify the primary sites of metastases and to assess the clinical value of this system as a routine method of investigation .
30 By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work .
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