Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 4 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 5 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
| 6 | If this achieves nothing else at least it helps shift the burden of guilt . |
| 7 | Children are excited by it ; it helps reinforce the children 's understanding of and commitment to the time shift , and in this case introduces the idea of a journal as part of the fiction , thereby leading into writing-in-role activities . ) |
| 8 | Well , it helps pass the time . |
| 9 | In some cases , especially among people of higher status , the letter is regarded as a more polite way of asking for the interview and it helps differentiate the interviewer , when he or she calls , from marauding salesmen . |
| 10 | So it 's a safe it 's a safety feature and it helps control the experiment . |
| 11 | Electronic marking is particularly appropriate on large courses , since it helps avoid the problems of managing the handing-in of work . |
| 12 | it helps fight the cancer cells it |
| 13 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 14 | Although this can lead to frustration for car drivers — especially in the summer when large queues build up — it helps limit the environmental damage to this very special area . |
| 15 | I think it 's a matter of giving yourself time of accepting that maybe you 're feeling low or I fe , when I 'm feeling low I say right , I ca n't cope with things I 've got to give myself some time where nothing 's gon na bother me , if I can manage it , an hour , half an hour , just doing something for myself that I really like and that helps me once I accept myself as being depressed then it helps alleviate the stress involved with it . |
| 16 | I boil it like a tea and it helps hurry the process up , if the woman is ready . |
| 17 | . California , the richest and largest state in America , here the state lottery is big business , with annual sales of more than one point seven billion dollars , it helps fill the Federal coffers through taxation and provides about one percent of the states education budget . |
| 18 | But it did involve the acceptance of a spiritual authority beyond his control , to which his ancestor Arnoul I could never have bowed . |
| 19 | But it did blunt the tool quite easily and sharpening was needed more often that I had thought likely , though this walnut was extremely hard . |
| 20 | Although the strike was called off , amid bitter controversy , it did benefit the Labour Party . |
| 21 | Whilst the second approach provides a more rigorous and adaptable method of providing the assemblies , it did necessitate the building of special-purpose assembly and iterative routines into the geometric modeller of a CAD system . |
| 22 | Even the original Tele guitar was designed to have some bass-playing ability , and as a consequence was not wired as it is today , although it did possess the customary three-way selector switch . |
| 23 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 24 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 25 | It did n't shed much light , but it did give the darkness a shape … |
| 26 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 27 | It did improve the image and it it improved people 's confidence I think in themselves and in the area . |
| 28 | However , it did retain the S E Saunders patented ‘ corrugated ’ hull method of construction , as used on the Severn , in which longitudinal corrugations replaced riveted stringers . |
| 29 | It did exclude the unplanned , ( and sometimes unintended ! ) learning and reinforcement that takes place ‘ on-the-job ’ . |
| 30 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |