Example sentences of "[adv] help [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides helping to unravel the myriad interactions between adolescent development and social and occupational structures , the initiative will also be seeking answers to practical policy questions in the fields of education , training and employment . |
| 2 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 3 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 4 | The hon. Member must remember that the Labour party strongly opposed the police powers of search , which we introduced and which have greatly helped to reduce the incidence of such crimes . |
| 5 | The fluidity of internal administrative structures , the increased turnover of staff , and the breakup of centralised registries , have all helped to undermine the role of corporate memory . |
| 6 | While the discussions of partnership in validation were taking place in the late 1970s , therefore , the CNAA had had some decade and a half of validation experience , but the rapid expansion of subject areas and such relatively recent developments as the DipHE and modular courses , and the uncertainties surrounding public sector higher education in a swiftly changing economic climate , all helped to strengthen the view that the Council should not move too rapidly into a higher gear of change . |
| 7 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 8 | Water imparts turgor to cells and tissues and so helps to maintain the shape of an organism . |
| 9 | Programmed ventricular stimulation not only helps to guide the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy but also provides important prognostic information . |
| 10 | With regard to the gradual exploration of historical time , reading not only helps to develop the concept of periods of time and of progression ( if not progress ) , but it also ( through the historical novel ) enables the reader to ‘ feel what it was like ’ . |
| 11 | This not only helps to keep the bloodlines pure , but also to avoid possible disappointment , as it may well be that the different types are as reluctant to interbreed as the morphs of Ps. zebra . |
| 12 | Early discussion with the authority 's officers to see exactly what information they require with the application , as well as to ensure that the proposed development is basically acceptable to the authority obviously helps to reduce the time needed . |
| 13 | By using it in Ealing in West London in 1979 , we recruited enough help to win the borough council election and to take the parliamentary seat from Labour . |
| 14 | Toys amuse a horse and so help to lessen the chances that the horse will form bad habits which are destructive to itself or its surroundings . |
| 15 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 16 | These plants absorb the carbon dioxide released by the corals and so help to keep the water oxygenated . |
| 17 | Such closures should provide a source of staff , capital and revenue to support the development of the new pattern of health services , including community psychiatric nursing , for the mentally ill and perhaps help to support the development of services provided by local authorities . |
| 18 | In a letter to the board , Jim Johnson , executive director of the Old Town Renewal Trust , said adoption of the proposals would greatly help to reduce the levels of personal crime , vandalism and disturbance to residents , a high number of whom are elderly . |
| 19 | Pampers are already helping to protect the environment . |
| 20 | The essential point , moreover , is that the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was recognisable to their contemporaries ( and presumably to themselves ) as a distinctive mode of attire , thus helping to form the feeling which was struggling to give itself expression in other areas , that too much freedom and affluence had been given to the working class at the turn of the century . |
| 21 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 22 | On the high points where the tree clumps are mostly situated , conditions may well be specially favourable for regenerated trees to survive to full maturity , thus helping to ensure the continuation of the position and form of the clump . |
| 23 | The spectrometer can also show absorption at specific wavelengths by the dust itself , thus helping to unravel the mystery of the dust 's composition . |
| 24 | The policy document suggested here could also be of use in this regard , by facilitating local discussion and thus helping to keep the development effort in line with the wishes and aspirations of the people . |
| 25 | This can then be compared to the isotopic composition of the material in nature , thus helping to determine the origin of the object . |
| 26 | Unemployment thus helped to shape the politics of the age , and some political changes were clearly the result of the problems it raised , although long-term social changes were clearly evident in permitting the Labour Party to replace the Liberal Party as the progressive party of British politics . |
| 27 | Corporate taxation policies for example , have greatly favoured capital intensive firms and thus helped to widen the productivity gap between large and small companies . |
| 28 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 29 | The notion of affirmation thus helps to assert the right of elders to have their unique identities and histories properly acknowledged in any assessment process . |
| 30 | The lay panel , the rights of parents and children to be accompanied by a friend or supporter , and the complete absence of any professional legal formality generally help to reduce the tension and create a situation for discussion . |