Example sentences of "helped [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the steady flow of student and ex-student recruits which brought into being and helped to sustain the radical circles , organizations and nation-wide parties of the revolutionary underground . |
| 2 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 3 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 5 | In 1921 she helped to found the International Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 6 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 7 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 8 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |
| 9 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 10 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 11 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 12 | Medicare provided those over 65 with 80% of the fees for hospital treatment ; Medicaid helped to cover the medical expenses of the poor . |
| 13 | This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium . |
| 14 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 15 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 16 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 17 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 18 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 19 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 20 | She helped to get the 90 workers reinstated that year . |
| 21 | British proposals helped to shape the key provisions of the Treaty , including those strengthening the enforcement of Community law , defence , subsidiarity and law and order . |
| 22 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 23 | Such vigour and severity helped to relieve the financial problems created by Henry III 's improvidence , but it also increased the hostility of barons and people against the Forest system , and against the personal government of Henry III himself . |
| 24 | Lisa Philips , a curator who helped mount the trendy Biennials of the 1980s , decried ‘ Eighties-bashing ’ while announcing the trend of the '90s : ‘ Today everybody 's talking about gender , identity and power the way they talked about the grid in the late Sixties and early Seventies ’ . |