Example sentences of "it help [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day before he left was a Saturday and Nick and Carrie were going to spend it helping to harvest the small hay field at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 2 | It helped to destroy the love which was becoming so hateful to her . |
| 3 | For instance , it funded research that was crucial to the discovery of the polio and rubella vaccines and more recently , it helped to fund the untrasound scanner that 's now to essential in antenatal care . |
| 4 | In Conway v. Rimmer ( H.L. , 1968 ) the need for secrecy was justified because : ( a ) it ensured full and frank discussion within the cabinet ; ( b ) it helped to preserve the convention of collective responsibility ; ( c ) it protected governments from ill-formed or captious criticism . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As such it helped to improve the prospects of Kim 's anticipated campaign for the presidency in late 1992 or early 1993 . |
| 8 | It helped to formulate the Institute 's response to the Review . |
| 9 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 10 | As the most popular spiritual English classic , it helped to form the religious outlook of Catholics in England right up to the Reformation . |
| 11 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 12 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 13 | Viewed in the long term , the importance of the Expenditure Committee was that it helped to persuade the Commons as a whole of the need for a more comprehensive effort to review the processes of public administration . |
| 14 | It helped to inspire the creation of soviets elsewhere — among peasants and soldiers as well as workers — and it attempted to liaise between them . |
| 15 | It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure . |
| 16 | ) And it helped to make the House of Commons very anxious and very angry . |
| 17 | It was all very well picking at the past like this if it helped to exorcise the demons , but he was n't sure that was what William wanted . |
| 18 | It did not usher in a revolution , but it helped to change the tenor of British politics . |
| 19 | Although exporters fairly complained that this made their goods less competitive in price , it helped to lower the cost of imports and thus the prices of foreign goods sold in Britain . |
| 20 | It helped to swell the takings considerably : Profit £486 from tickets and £124 from Green Shield stamps making a grand total of £610 . |
| 21 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 22 | It helped to keep the peace . |
| 23 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
| 24 | If we can describe this ( and the Brown and Gilman ( 1960 ) ‘ power and solidarity ’ model is suggestive as a beginning ) , we can use it to help to model the embedding of language in the community . |
| 25 | If it helps to view the circus as a horror show then it 's Carry on Screaming . |
| 26 | By providing a weekly update on all that 's new in science and technology in a non-technical everyday language it helps to fill the gaps between textbooks and the latest developments . |
| 27 | erm , no I mean apart from the concrete it helps to fill the hole |
| 28 | It helps to remind the tourists of our native bush and that they 're now out in the wilds . ’ |
| 29 | It helps to use the paper-based index World Banking Abstracts or the CD-Rom product ABI/Inform , as well as our in-line catalogue . |
| 30 | If this achieves nothing else at least it helps shift the burden of guilt . |