Example sentences of "help [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cancer specialists from the United Kingdom , continental Europe and the United States will gather in London to hear the results of early studies which point to an important role for fish and plant oils in helping to combat human disease .
2 INMATES at Penninghame Open Prison near Newton Stewart , Wigtownshire , have been praised for helping to combat under-age drinking in the area .
3 Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees .
4 It 's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned , as the press tries to make out , but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting .
5 Mr Baker commented : ‘ Mr Ashdown 's statement shows a reckless disregard for the realities of immigration control which are crucial in helping to preserve harmonious race relations in Britain . ’
6 In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life .
7 Great crises do occur in the midst of structural change and , in fact , are part of the process helping to carry those changes through .
8 His earliest students learned the hard way by helping to erect experimental plant and doing the pipe fitting .
9 After talking to various people it occurred to me that if everyone in this island planted a tree in their lifetime we would achieve something , not least by helping to absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere .
10 He 'll be helping to escourt sixteen tons of glass to the school and will also carry out repairs .
11 The students go out and spend part of each week all through the school year in the schools , and the teachers in those schools , whether they are science teachers or history teachers or English teachers , collaborate with us in helping to train those students .
12 He is helping to supervise three post-graduate associates in a marketing exercise for BICC , which marks a broadening of the scheme 's primary role in manufacturing .
13 He is helping to supervise three post-graduate associates in a marketing exercise for BICC , which marks a broadening of the scheme 's primary role in manufacturing .
14 It is clear that SCOTVEC has a central role in helping to meet these needs .
15 The NRA promotes the recreational use of rivers and in many area play an active role in helping to secure amicable agreements over access .
16 Customers will get refunds and other firms are helping to find alternative trips .
17 Leyhill is proud of its record in helping to rehabilitate former criminals … and thanks to a spell of gardening , many inmates can look forward to a brighter future … their light fingers turned into green fingers …
18 He spearheaded Swindon 's revival as a boom town in the late eightees , helping to attract major firms like car makers Honda and one of Europe 's leading information distribution firms Galileo .
19 Paine was across there now , it was said , helping to write new laws .
20 Or helping to write some plays .
21 Vitamins are natural food constituents essential in helping to provide complete health .
22 Helping to provide these interfaces — so-called middleware — will be crucial and signals the need for software companies to become increasingly service orientated .
23 The nuclear programme has not only not exceeded the country 's investment capacity : it has , as we shall see later , helped to sustain economic activity in hard times .
24 Hopeful signs that consumers were at last starting to put their hands in their pockets helped to breathe new life into the brewers and stores .
25 Indirectly , this helped to stimulate industrial development .
26 This was welcomed by American businessmen , although it helped to disrupt international trade as other countries retaliated by raising their duties .
27 Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives .
28 In three years the newly formed Red Army not only managed to defeat three White armies and detachments of their foreign allies , but helped to impose Soviet control over the Muslim and Far Eastern borderlands , and Soviet dependencies in Tannu-Tuva , Outer Mongolia and Northern Iran .
29 Known as the District 's ‘ Sabine Women ’ these young graduates not only held together the framework of the District 's organisation in the counties throughout the war , but added substantially to the number of courses provided by the District and helped to establish new WEA branches and centres among the civilian population .
30 An important case , Prince Albert v Strange ( 1849 ) , helped to establish this area of law and concerned etchings made by Queen Victoria and her consort , Prince Albert .
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