Example sentences of "help us [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helped us to maintain the dividend at 9p per share , rather than having to reduce it . |
| 2 | The existing clients helped us to raise the money and went round their relatives . |
| 3 | They helped us to transport the food . ’ |
| 4 | Roy Parker closes the book by reiterating the case for research : stressing that its ultimate purpose must be to help us to improve the quality of life of children generally and of some of the most disadvantaged in particular . |
| 5 | In this discussion , however , we have found it necessary to turn to ‘ real-time ’ evidence ( Patterson , 1860 ; Staples , 1898 ) in order to help us to locate the direction of change . |
| 6 | Intracerebral microdialysis has helped us to understand the pathophysiology of ischaemia , central nervous system trauma , and epilepsy in laboratory animals and will have increasing application clinically . |
| 7 | Mourning also helps us to see the dangers facing our planet . |
| 8 | Analysing the situation helps us to detect the circumstances that need to be heeded when setting an objective that is realistic . |
| 9 | The idea of modes , for example , helps us to appreciate the limitations of a scientific approach to the practical matters of law and politics . |
| 10 | How different it is when someone , perhaps someone close to us , perhaps someone we have never met , helps us to view the world through different eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ If Eric helps us to win the Championship in his first six months , then great . ’ |
| 12 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 13 | Archaeology helps us to understand the past , and this understanding helps a great deal in the understanding of society today and the development of society in the future . |
| 14 | This passage helps us to understand the dilemma Poulantzas is trying to solve . |
| 15 | If musical politics now involves a constantly shifting ‘ war of position ’ , Adorno helps us to understand the enemy , but it is Benjamin who is more able to offer the tools to carry on the struggle . |
| 16 | Knowledge of the subject matter helps us to understand the meaning of a text in a foreign language ( Mackey 1965 p 252 ) . |
| 17 | Systems theory helps us to understand the role of organisational change and why organisations differ . |
| 18 | What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) . |
| 19 | Our awareness of these other dimensions helps us to correct the conservative , status quo -maintaining bias which functionalism so readily fosters and which , if unchecked , can seriously distort our assessment and understanding of the dynamic forces animating particular societies . |
| 20 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |
| 21 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |
| 22 | We pray for the nations of the world ; O God , help us to lessen the tensions between nations , so that our many resources and gifts may be diverted to the alleviation of human suffering and injustice , and that we may be better stewards of Your many gifts to us . |
| 23 | Please send £6 , £10 , £20 , or whatever you can afford , in the envelope provided , and help us to save the badger . |
| 24 | They also help us to rectify the neglect of processes and emotions internal to individual human beings . |
| 25 | They exist , theorists believe , because they help us to see the world as it really is . |
| 26 | Models of welfare help us to comprehend the value systems underlying social policies . |
| 27 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |
| 28 | Please help us to bring the men who have made this astonishing decision back to their senses before all is lost . |
| 29 | Such abstract typologies help us to understand the behaviour of councillors as a group but they do not necessarily apply to individual councillors who may exhibit characteristics drawn from several of the main types . |
| 30 | These studies help us to understand the coupling between magnetosphere and ionosphere , and complex natural phenomena such as the aurora . |