Example sentences of "help [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These media were clearly better than the press in helping to combat loneliness and isolation , allegedly more common in the 1970s and 1980s than in the post-war decades , especially among an ageing population . |
| 2 | Cancer specialists from the United Kingdom , continental Europe and the United States will gather in London to hear the results of early studies which point to an important role for fish and plant oils in helping to combat human disease . |
| 3 | INMATES at Penninghame Open Prison near Newton Stewart , Wigtownshire , have been praised for helping to combat under-age drinking in the area . |
| 4 | By making the income and capital gains from investing in such trusts free of tax , up to a maximum amount of 6,000 a year ( 1992 ) , it is hoped that such savings will be encouraged , thereby helping to channel investment into UK industry . |
| 5 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 6 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 7 | The satisfaction of belonging to a worthwhile organisation and helping to promote the development of Medau work |
| 8 | Sun and water power in Toledo : BP Solar Espana is helping to connect a 1MW photovoltaic plant to the Spanish grid near Toledo in central Spain . |
| 9 | However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it . |
| 10 | In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema . |
| 11 | In return , the Soviet Union pledges its support for the sanctity of Iraq 's own borders , promises to veto any attempt to impose penalties on Iraq , including any trial of Mr Hussein himself , and commits itself to helping to arrange a subsequent international discussion of regional issues . |
| 12 | Allegedly the money was a back-hander to the PSI for helping to arrange loans . |
| 13 | Diseases in oilseed rape and winter beans , as well as wet soils after more than 180mm ( 7in ) of rain in June , are helping to paint a ‘ rather gloomy ’ picture this year , he adds . |
| 14 | In this way information is gradually built up , helping to paint a picture of the lives and lifestyles of the birds which appear so dramatically in the islands . |
| 15 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 16 | The creation of the ocean of consumer debt now helping to float our prosperity , is a marvel equal to what Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to achieve with perestroika . |
| 17 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 18 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 19 | In addition to his work promoting the Contagious Diseases Acts , in the 1860s he also served on the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association , helping to draft legislation on habitual drunkenness , infant mortality and the examination and registration of midwives . |
| 20 | He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) . |
| 21 | When the Secretary of State was helping to draft the declaration on the middle east peace process , did he have in mind the curfew that has been placed on the Nablus and Hebron areas and on the Al-Bireh area and did he have in mind the illegal occupation of the houses in the Silwan area of Jerusalem ? |
| 22 | CHESTER Tory MP , author and television personality Gyles Brandreth was helping explain Europe to the people yesterday . |
| 23 | He performed well in the Gulf War , helping to glue the coalition . |
| 24 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 25 | Women have massive amounts of love invested in fathers , lovers and sons , and many of these women despise the systems their own men may be helping to sustain . |
| 26 | This has the further benefit of helping to sustain or extend current routines through various kinds of provision . |
| 27 | Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things . |
| 28 | The satisfaction of knowing that their support is helping to sustain and develop Medau work . |
| 29 | For eight years Endill roamed around the big house , helping make the soups , walking through the hills , digging up the vegetables , bumping into his father by mistake and unscrewing the furniture when his mother was n't looking . |
| 30 | Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle . |