Example sentences of "might help [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I also think he probably thought that it might help to ease the tension erm in Northern Ireland , whether it did or not I leave as an open debate and I do n't think there was just a single motive for President Clinton 's decision , but the one I was trying to demonstrate which was hit straight away was there was a domestic element , a des domestic political element in the decision .
2 Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks .
3 Such a change should have the effect of reducing the number of apparently aimless mergers among large firms , and this in itself might help to ameliorate the bandwagon effect on all firms during merger waves .
4 At first it might help to retract the iron a little .
5 But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it .
6 The degree , if any , to which cheap technological aids might help to lighten the burden of controlling this information and improve the efficiency of exchanging it .
7 At least it might help to mitigate the boredom .
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