Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it commands the government to make sure that its actions do not help acceptable ideals more than unacceptable ones , to see to it that its actions will not hinder the cause of false ideals more than they do that of true ones . |
| 2 | Undesirable attitudes do not help such as thinking that accidents , fires and infection happen only to others and hoping that someone else will do the campaigning about pollution issues . |
| 3 | Often governments in the third world do not help their people 's cause . |
| 4 | All these ideas are fun , of course , but they do not help us to answer the original question . |
| 5 | In a sense , they do not help our cause . |
| 6 | While attempting to make the wheelchair or baby-buggy pusher 's life easier , planners often do not help by making ramps up and over steps too steep for any but the most fearless . |
| 7 | But speculations of this sort are founded on such improbable premises that they do not help us to understand what actually happened , and merely prompt the rejoinder , ‘ So what ? ’ |
| 8 | These histories , taken singly or together , do not seem to tell us what we want to know , since they do not help us to understand why cutlery firms in general increased in size . |
| 9 | His sources do not help him grasp the inconvenient fact that many young men actually enjoy warfare . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , in this case , diagrams of 187 Os/ 188 Os against 1/Os and so on do not help to constrain mixing hypotheses further , presumably because concentrations of Os are affected by its compatible behaviour during magma generation and differentiation processes . |
| 11 | These katures of the National Curriculum framework offer a powerful resource with which to classify children according to their level of attainment in ways that do not help teachers to overcome their difficulties . |
| 12 | He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other . |
| 13 | Certainly , the average consumption of alcohol , cigarettes , sugar , and possibly even tea , coffee and chocolate do not help our nutrition balance . |
| 14 | Within such policy , there are limited direct links between mainstream teachers and deaf pupils , and mixed ability , mixed age special units of small numbers of deaf students do not help social integration with both deaf and hearing peer groups . |
| 15 | Chapter titles like " War " , " Post War " , " PreWar " and " War " ( from A.J.P. Taylor 's From Sarajevo to Potsdam ) do not help very much . |
| 16 | The media do not help with their obsessive references to Iraqi censorship . |
| 17 | They are all very welcome , of course , although they park their cars in inconvenient places , but they do not help in the problems I have in finding the time to sort out my new home . |
| 18 | We do n't get anywhere by what Paul calls ‘ preaching ourselves ’ : gimmicks do not help . |
| 19 | The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery . |
| 20 | They do not help in proving a program correct with respect to some specification expressed in terms of a more abstract description of its intended behaviour . |
| 21 | Unison doublings do not help much , if at all , except in the case of high trumpet parts being doubled in unison by clarinets to give steadiness and confidence to the trumpets rather than for any definitely musical result ( e.g. clarinets have been used with great success to double the extremely high trumpet parts to be found in the works of Bach and Handel ) . |
| 22 | I do not presume to argue with these , but our modern parallels do not help us overmuch . |
| 23 | If then they still do not help , bring all your people and let them stay in the office until it is done . |
| 24 | Does he accept that those brutal killings , which are still taking place , do not help the peace process ? |
| 25 | Many other London Tory boroughs , however , do not help ; nor do the Government give hard-pressed Newham the assistance that it needs . |
| 26 | If you do not help your people , or allow them to help themselves , they may all die , and take you with them . |
| 27 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |
| 28 | In its ruling , however , the IWT also drew attention to the issue of energy use per se : " ( Environmental ) procedures and the generation of ever more information on impacts do not help avoid the essential issue that industrialized countries should reduce their wasteful energy consumption , rather than enlarging the capacity to create energy " . |
| 29 | Such delays do not help the plaintiff who wants to set the record straight , but they are equally unpleasant for defendants , who face escalating costs and witness difficulties . |
| 30 | Tinted glasses do not help your vision , do not use spray on or |