Example sentences of "it help [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 2 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 3 | This was welcomed by American businessmen , although it helped to disrupt international trade as other countries retaliated by raising their duties . |
| 4 | But if nothing else , the McKenna decider served one purpose — it helped to put additional fire in Derry 's bellies . |
| 5 | The examination not only confirmed the findings of the comparison stage of the FAOR study , but also highlighted the difficulties and expense that would be involved if the proposals were to be implemented at the level suggested ; at the same time it helped to dispel certain misconceptions about the needs of the users overall . |
| 6 | And it helped to maintain that crazy '70s wartime austerity , by forcing millions of us to flush the lavatory with our bathwater , boil potatoes in the fish pond and wait in yet more queues , this time for standpipe water . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 9 | It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed . |
| 10 | It helped to have two such formidable singers taking the two female dragon roles : Anne Collins as a fruity Princess Clarissa , tyrannical in a general 's uniform of black leather , and Jane Eaglen as Fata Morgana , like Katisha in Mikado only more so . |
| 11 | It helped to start whole categories of publication , such as free sheets , Sunday paper colour magazines , and successive speciality magazines ( yachting , autos , DIY , computing ) . |
| 12 | The notion of an internal lexicon is particularly powerful in that it helps to explain many of the phenomena associated with word recognition . |
| 13 | And it helps to generate new energy because there is a belief . ’ |
| 14 | It helps to detail one or two of the other adults to ensure you do not lose anyone on the way but this is a fun activity if the conditions are right and the weather reasonable . |
| 15 | As children get older , it helps to hold short family meetings to discuss matters like holidays , which concern the whole family , and talk over anything which is important to the child — her pocket money or when to return home from a party . |
| 16 | Conservatives have even learnt to love the deficit : it helps to resist any movement towards an increased government share in the economy . |
| 17 | Warwick Collins points out that the keel design not only has a distinct draught advantage over a fin keel , but also claims that it helps to damp any pitching motion in a seaway . |
| 18 | So it helps to put that in the brackets . |
| 19 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 20 | Sometimes it helps to produce two or three alternative structures , embodying quite different approaches to the same material . |
| 21 | This is deliberate , in that it helps to identify key questions about support in families which need to be addressed in later chapters . |
| 22 | Another curious attribute of the powder is that when cooked out it helps to extract other flavours while losing its own . |
| 23 | To understand the classicists it helps to have some understanding of what they were reacting against . |
| 24 | It helps to counteract this tendency if you have a clear list of criteria against which to view the person and/or the information the interview renders . |
| 25 | It helps to avoid potential conflicts of interest , but equally it has pitched for business against its parent — and won . |
| 26 | Management by exception enables a manager to devote his or her energies to significant deviations ; this does not mean that he or she ignores all other results but it helps to focus managerial effort . |
| 27 | Would it help to buy two more , given the fact that they are shoaling fish ? |
| 28 | Could it help to limit environmental pollution ? |