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 . |