Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] helped [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine .
2 This article inaugurated Rothermere 's massive press campaign which helped to thrust the BUF from comparative obscurity into the limelight .
3 THE MANAGEMENT team which helped develop the B & Q DIY business is on the acquisition trail again — this time in the gardening business with a ‘ multi-million pound ’ deal to buy Kent Garden Centres , writes Jerry Connolly .
4 These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) .
5 It is this speed of development of alternative means of land transport which helped to produce the ‘ new ’ economic history 's approach to railways in the 1960s .
6 Two CWMBRAN staff took part in a 24 hour sponsored famine which helped raise a total of £324 .
7 Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ .
8 Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ .
9 Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park .
10 As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another .
11 No more is it possible to claim that the strict code of social morality and convention which helped to sustain the political system was held in place from outside against the will of most Japanese people .
12 In Berlin William II interfered repeatedly with the conduct of German diplomacy in a way which helped to conceal the extent to which his effective authority in many areas was ebbing away .
13 Over several decades he brought a level of energy , commitment and enthusiasm to athletics which helped transform the sport into its modern form .
14 In January 1923 , France invaded the coalfields of the Ruhr in an attempt to enforce delivery of reparation coal , thereby triggering the hyper-inflation which helped to undermine the Weimar Republic and open the way for Hitler .
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