Example sentences of "has helped [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the forthright style that has helped to earn him his reputation , he said that politicians are sick people , that they have a profound characters fault , and that their main objective is to keep their jobs ( does the later at least not also apply to economists , one might wonder ? ) .
2 Sport has helped to give the English a coherent national culture no less than it has the Irish , the Welsh , or the Scots .
3 This may be partly due to its isolated geographical position , which has helped to give the country its intense feeling of national uniqueness , and its deep conservatism .
4 It has a university and technical colleges , and its large student population has helped to give it a reputation as a trouble-spot Muslim fundamentalist groups are very active in Asyut , and the Coptic population is large .
5 By providing an outside point of reference for the important work being undertaken by our Brazilian colleagues it has helped to give community based approaches to health care credibility within the country .
6 The well-rounded rib — the barrel chest that has helped to give the Suffolk the name of Punch — is a distinctive feature , as is the deep carcase .
7 This has helped to unite deaf people and provides a common experience as well as common linguistic structure on which to draw .
8 The vision of the Warnock Report has helped to extend this principle still further .
9 RITCHIE TAYLOR , a junior All Blacks centre , has helped to transform Bridgwater and Albion this season from strugglers to winners of a promotion and cup double .
10 Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators .
11 This attitude has helped to transform science into a wonderland of the imagination .
12 Although party politics , particularly in urban areas , has long been a feature of local government , its extension after 1974 — mainly a product of the larger authority areas created by reorganization — has helped to transform the operating style of many authorities .
13 ‘ The research and development which has helped achieve supreme meat quality has always had significant health benefits for our industry . ’
14 Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan .
15 ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 .
16 ‘ The contest has created considerable interest in the U.K. and has helped to publicise our forthcoming celebrations .
17 Importantly , by enabling us to see the lack of stability within textual play , deconstruction has helped bring attention to the exterior forces which attempt to control such play .
18 Today oversupply has helped bring down London rents to bargain basement levels .
19 The shop takes a commission on sales and the seller has helped pay for his trip .
20 Now the group has helped pay for a bronze sculpture in memory of the navvies .
21 It raises funds for conservation and its concerns are with earth-bound pandas ( it has helped set up ten panda reserves in China ) rather than ocean-going whales .
22 At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold .
23 Mr Cruickshank has spent just over three years in charge of the Scottish health service and has helped set it on the Government 's controversial road to self-governing hospitals and fund-holding family doctor practices .
24 A FATHER whose son was killed in a road accident has helped set up a support network in the North West for the families of other victims .
25 Since then , a long spell of bad weather has helped to clean almost all the visible oil off the stones , although some of the building interiors remain contaminated .
26 The desperate image of both skins and punks has helped to create the impression that these subcultures are completely untouched by ‘ commercial ’ influences .
27 The use of the word ‘ age ’ in legislation has helped to create age discrimination .
28 Education has not been immune from this process , and some would argue that it has helped to create new social divisions .
29 ‘ The position of youth in contemporary society ’ , he wrote , ‘ is only intelligible in terms of the rise since the eighteenth century of a psychology of adolescence which has helped to create what it describes . ’
30 Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week .
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