Example sentences of "it helped [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 2 | It helped get her through one evening . |
| 3 | To the sceptical , it helped to justify and explain our involvement in the inquiry . |
| 4 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 5 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 6 | It helped to destroy the love which was becoming so hateful to her . |
| 7 | If liberalism was a spent political force in Britain by 1930 , the kind of social survey to which it helped give rise was not . |
| 8 | As a first step in that direction , together with the different national sponsorship associations in Europe , it helped to create Cerec ( Comité Européen pour le Rapprochement de l'Économie et de la Culture ) . |
| 9 | A 171-km canal link between the Main and the Danube in south-east Germany was opened on Sept. 25 ; it helped to create a 3,500-km continuous navigable waterway from the Netherlands North Sea port of Rotterdam to Constanza on Romania 's Black Sea coast . |
| 10 | It helped to spur federalists to greater efforts , and inspired the creation of new organisations devoted to the European cause . |
| 11 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 12 | This was welcomed by American businessmen , although it helped to disrupt international trade as other countries retaliated by raising their duties . |
| 13 | He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds . |
| 14 | For instance , it funded research that was crucial to the discovery of the polio and rubella vaccines and more recently , it helped to fund the untrasound scanner that 's now to essential in antenatal care . |
| 15 | In Conway v. Rimmer ( H.L. , 1968 ) the need for secrecy was justified because : ( a ) it ensured full and frank discussion within the cabinet ; ( b ) it helped to preserve the convention of collective responsibility ; ( c ) it protected governments from ill-formed or captious criticism . |
| 16 | Still , if it helped to restore his own estimation of himself , let him think otherwise . |
| 17 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 18 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 19 | It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse . |
| 20 | It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 21 | ‘ We were pleased with the way our campaign went , and we are sure that it helped to improve sales at a difficult time . ’ |
| 22 | As such it helped to improve the prospects of Kim 's anticipated campaign for the presidency in late 1992 or early 1993 . |
| 23 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 24 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 25 | It helped to formulate the Institute 's response to the Review . |
| 26 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 27 | It helped push him towards resignation . ’ |
| 28 | It helped to give Hartlepool the lead , with the move begun in their own area and completed by Paul Baker 's firm header on Paul Dalton 's cross . |
| 29 | By showing how every soul could make its own way to God , without the mediation of priests or ministers of the educated classes , it helped to give a sense of dignity and individual worth to thousands who were turned off their land by enclosures and absorbed by the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 30 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |