Example sentences of "[pers pn] helps [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She helps break the ice when I am interviewing . |
| 2 | Structure exists at various levels of consciousness ( or unconsciousness ) and although its relationship to mundane ‘ reality ’ ( the Marxist ‘ infrastructure ’ whose ultimate importance Lévi-Strauss periodically acknowledges ) is often tangential and tenuous , it helps resolve such fundamental contradictions and antinomies as that between nature and culture , self-interest and the common good , and , more immediately , certain basic conflicts inherent in particular forms of social organization . |
| 3 | ‘ If it helps reassure you , Tsu Ma , I will say to you what I have already said both to Wu Shih and Wei Feng . |
| 4 | If this achieves nothing else at least it helps shift the burden of guilt . |
| 5 | So if it helps do n't bring it back . |
| 6 | Such an approach forces managers to communicate with one another and it helps break down rigid departmental boundaries . |
| 7 | It helps explain what they believe in when they believe that a person has authority . |
| 8 | It helps explain his fixation on the details of other people 's erotic lives , the keyhole stuff that filled his files , the anger — envy , perhaps — which made him project homosexuality onto all manner of public figures . |
| 9 | Such information is needed , of course ; it helps prevent deterioration of performance . |
| 10 | Children are excited by it ; it helps reinforce the children 's understanding of and commitment to the time shift , and in this case introduces the idea of a journal as part of the fiction , thereby leading into writing-in-role activities . ) |
| 11 | Well , it helps pass the time . |
| 12 | In some cases , especially among people of higher status , the letter is regarded as a more polite way of asking for the interview and it helps differentiate the interviewer , when he or she calls , from marauding salesmen . |
| 13 | ‘ It helps promote and stimulate more thinking about making adequate restitution for black slaves . ’ |
| 14 | So it 's a safe it 's a safety feature and it helps control the experiment . |
| 15 | If we take a narrow interpretation at least for the moment of strategic means it helps decide where it should go . |
| 16 | Electronic marking is particularly appropriate on large courses , since it helps avoid the problems of managing the handing-in of work . |
| 17 | The committee said that the government should examine copyright law , which restricts the import of cheaper CDs from abroad , to see whether it helps sustain a ‘ complex monopoly ’ in Britain 's £1.2 billion music industry . |
| 18 | The recompense is meagre , but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician . |
| 19 | It helps reduce heat loss and dissipates moisture which may accumulate . |
| 20 | Well it helps fight |
| 21 | it helps fight the cancer cells it |
| 22 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 23 | It 's it 's part of a programme , it helps get blood back to the hair fo We 've all got all the hair follicles there , what we have n't got is the capillary network feeding those hair follicles . |
| 24 | It helps maintain good relations . |
| 25 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 26 | John Hutchinson lauds such programming , admitting that , ‘ It helps define nationalist ideas , so we 're not subsumed into the British Isles . |
| 27 | Although this can lead to frustration for car drivers — especially in the summer when large queues build up — it helps limit the environmental damage to this very special area . |
| 28 | Clearly the maintenance of discipline within a school is in all pupils ' best interests if it helps produce an environment conducive to learning , and it seems appropriate to leave with teachers the decision of how to achieve that objective , acting on the guidance provided by HMI , the Elton Report and so on . |
| 29 | It helps keep your skin clear . |
| 30 | Most people enjoy doing things if they can , it helps keep our minds active and our bodies healthy . |