Example sentences of "it help [verb] [art] " 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 A 171-km canal link between the Main and the Danube in south-east Germany was opened on Sept. 25 ; it helped to create a 3,500-km continuous navigable waterway from the Netherlands North Sea port of Rotterdam to Constanza on Romania 's Black Sea coast .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 As such it helped to improve the prospects of Kim 's anticipated campaign for the presidency in late 1992 or early 1993 .
9 It helped to formulate the Institute 's response to the Review .
10 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 .
11 By showing how every soul could make its own way to God , without the mediation of priests or ministers of the educated classes , it helped to give a sense of dignity and individual worth to thousands who were turned off their land by enclosures and absorbed by the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution .
12 As the most popular spiritual English classic , it helped to form the religious outlook of Catholics in England right up to the Reformation .
13 Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 It helped to inspire the creation of soviets elsewhere — among peasants and soldiers as well as workers — and it attempted to liaise between them .
17 It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure .
18 ) And it helped to make the House of Commons very anxious and very angry .
19 I would say that the CNAA was responsible for establishing the arts in higher education , first as subjects valid for higher education , and second as subjects valuable to the country , in other words it helped to establish a national reputation for the arts at this level , which had never existed before .
20 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 .
21 A critical examination of the Soviet past , as in Andreeva 's letter , was a necessary part of perestroika in that it helped to provide a better , clearer picture of the way forward .
22 Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ .
23 It did not usher in a revolution , but it helped to change the tenor of British politics .
24 Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations .
25 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 .
26 It helped create a feeling of timelessness .
27 It helped to swell the takings considerably : Profit £486 from tickets and £124 from Green Shield stamps making a grand total of £610 .
28 Built in the early 1980s to meet spiralling demand in Surrey 's golf-crazy commuter heartland , it helped to solve a seemingly impossible problem for many budding golfers .
29 This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians .
30 It helped to keep the peace .
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