Example sentences of "help [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Trading is still tough , but Watmoughs now detects some scope for selective price increases and the devalued pound is already helping win new contracts , especially against German printers . |
2 | On the death of Charles James Fox [ q.v. ] in 1806 , Creevey became dissatisfied with the party 's leaders , and his attacks on the Grenvilles helped weaken Whig unity . |
3 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
4 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
5 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
6 | As well as serving as informed sources themselves , they helped identify additional experts who were interviewed . |
7 | The author and the Editor would like to thank the scientists who helped keep these tales within the bounds of fact : entomologist Dr John Maunder and parasitologist Dr Ian Burgess , both of the University of Cambridge . |
8 | Spenser represented real cultural preoccupations in his texts but these representational forms became vehicles which helped enforce cultural categories and the apparent identities they confer . |
9 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
10 | Travelling on a mission trip sponsored by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church , she helped distribute 35,000 Bibles in Moscow and attended church services . |
11 | However , I should say editors gain no financial benefit from sales , all monies helping finance further publications and conferences , including bursaries to classroom teachers to attend the next CARN Conference . |
12 | Ironically , crime is helping provide legitimate employment for 420,000 people battling AGAINST it . |
13 | Other grants recently given to firms include : — Barry Chow , Wilson Street , £14,880 to help modify empty building for take-away restaurant , with up to ten jobs created ; — Ruby Tuesday , Parliament Road , £11,804 to help create extra space for planned business expansion by fashion accessories firm , with five additional jobs planned ; — S Upex and Son , North Ormesby Road , £7,690 to help improve premises ; — Tyne Tees Cash-and-Carry , Cargo Fleet Lane , £20,975 to help reconstruction of access road and security fencing ; — A Razzaq , Linthorpe Road , £6,667 to help refurbish property used as a take-away restaurant ; — Laing Employment Training Organisation , Parliament Road , £1,908 to help with site security at its base in the old Cleveland Transit bus depot ; — Fletcher Investment Consultants , Wilson Street , £1,108 towards painting and cleaning outside of premises . |
14 | This kind of specialised service has helped make Homegrown Videos one of the biggest distributors in the business . |
15 | Four-year-old Oscar went racing into the darkness as his owners helped make hot drinks for mountain rescue teams . |
16 | She said the Neighbourhood Watch scheme had helped make ten arrests over the last few weeks . |
17 | Over the last 30 years the Trust has helped build 26 village schools , two hospitals and 12 medical centres . |
18 | We are also determined to raise standards in our inner city schools , to crack down on truancy , and to help prepare young people for the world of work . |
19 | Geoff Boycott is one of an 11-strong coaching team assembled by the England manager , Micky Stewart , to help prepare this winter 's touring sides to West Indies and Zimbabwe . |
20 | This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow . |
21 | to find out the needs of parents of children under five and work with them to help facilitate those needs , … to help parents help their children acquire useful skills and act as a bridge between home and school , … and to increase a shared community spirit and foster an attitude of sharing and support between parents and other parents in the local neighbourhood , alongside the paid professionals and voluntary agencies . |
22 | Janet was determined yesterday not to help answer these questions . |
23 | The council should offer help , if it can , to help upgrade those shops in the streets affected by changes of access . |
24 | The chargé had said that if Britain wanted Iran to help in the case of its hostages in Lebanon , then Britain would have to help locate four Iranians who had gone missing in Beirut several years earlier . |
25 | Here is a fault-finding guide to help locate any problems that might arise when producing boards with the ultra-violet technique . |
26 | EBRD to help make Soviet stations safer |
27 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
28 | We are relying on you and all the other volunteers around the U K in your contacts with the public to help make this year a success . |
29 | For 40 years , Britain 's professional scrap processors have been turning unwanted cars into furnace feed to help make British Steel more efficient — at no cost to the public . |
30 | Despite an official ban , from 1982 to 1989 West German companies supplied Iraq with arms and the technology to help make nuclear weapons , poison gas , and missiles , in all worth around DM1 billion ( $600m ) . |