Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] help [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relate ( formerly Marriage Guidance ) , is a voluntary organization with a national council , coordinating the activities of local councils , which aims to promote successful marriage and parenthood and thereby helps to maintain family welfare by improving marital relationships . |
| 2 | Secondly , to stimulate employer alliances for purposes of market regulation , especially in those industries with competitive product markets as a means of regulating wages and thereby helping to stabilise market conditions . |
| 3 | It contains fewer chemical pollutants , which asthmatics are often allergic to , and so helps to prevent asthma attacks . |
| 4 | This results in a gentle down-wave drift of water , which can lead to the accumulation of water along the coast and so help to generate rip and longshore currents . |
| 5 | Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body . |
| 6 | This scheme will cut down bills and also help to save energy , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 8 | The 40 per cent rule was introduced to make sure that the EBRD did not become a prop for state industries , but rather helped to build market economies . |
| 9 | He suggests that state welfare activity not only produced general efficiency gains for the nation but also helped to modify power and status differentials — a somewhat questionable assertion . |
| 10 | This 30% reduction increases overall stiffness and sealing effectiveness while also helping to prevent corrosion . |