Example sentences of "they could help " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of two women in the car asked if they could help me . |
| 2 | If so , dig them out now because they could help you get a bigger mortgage . |
| 3 | Once general agreement to the models had been obtained , it was then necessary to consider how they could help in providing practical advice about the effect on College structures . |
| 4 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 5 | Which is not to say that ethyl alcohol drops do not work — they could help a chemical-sensitive patient by stimulating the liver to produce more detoxification enzymes . |
| 6 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 7 | They wanted to know about me and my business and how I thought they could help , ’ he recalls . |
| 8 | When Rachel Birch met sixth form students at the school earlier this year , they asked her how they could help . |
| 9 | They had to have an organization , I thought , and perhaps they could help . |
| 10 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 11 | Pronouns can either become disjuncts ( he or she , her or his ) or the singular they may be used ( no one would use sexist language if they could help it ) . |
| 12 | Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions . |
| 13 | They could help baby to climb out . |
| 14 | Early on , she had learned one thing : if the poor saw you prospering they did n't deal with you if they could help it , their idea being they were n't going to give you a hand . |
| 15 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 16 | Even negative research results can be valuable and at the very least they could help us to ask some of the right questions . |
| 17 | ‘ We learned so much about the suppliers and how they could help us or not that the results were n't so important ’ , said Hubbard , who claimed that the process was beneficial to both supplier and customer , taking some of the guesswork out of sizing and selecting the final systems . |
| 18 | Right , well perhaps I , perhaps people could as actually come and speak to me afterwards , if they , if they think they could help at all , that 's International Women 's Day and all the local organisations have been asked to take part |
| 19 | No one employed travellers if they could help it and the future looked dark . |
| 20 | They came to tell me that you 'd gone under before they could help you . |
| 21 | Roles contacted a local cricket club , told them he wanted to photograph a bowler in action , and asked if they could help . |
| 22 | I asked the College if they could help , but was told by the then-bursar : It is College policy not to help fellows with housing . |
| 23 | Whether this pattern of usage of solicitors is evidence of a restricted perception of the sorts of matters with which solicitors deal or of a failure of people to approach solicitors knowing that they could help is unclear . |
| 24 | Because so many parents were asking her how they could help their children with reading , teacher and mother of three Barbara Geere wrote Seven Ways to Help Your Child With Reading ( Seven Ways Series , £1.95 ) , which sets out simply how to make a start , build up your child 's confidence , make reading fun ( with plenty of learning games to make or buy ) and , at the end , how to form letters . |
| 25 | IN RECOGNITION of their expertise in stainless steel welding , Enterprise Engineering Services was recently asked if they could help Woodlands School in Aberdeen . |
| 26 | The local Rentokil pest control branch were contacted to see if they could help . |
| 27 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 28 | Similarly you could decide to make your family more aware of some of your frustrations and what sort of ways they could help you . |
| 29 | It is important that the world 's under exploited plants are saved from extinction as if the plants were utilised properly they could help reduce occurrences of famine as the varieties of plants are suitable to many different climates . |
| 30 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |