Example sentences of "helps [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps them to respond sensitively to their clients ' suggestions and to furnish a diagnosis and accusation of guilt which is highly acceptable to the victim . |
| 2 | Who is to say that they are wrong , if it helps them to live out the rest of their lives in a happier frame of mind ? |
| 3 | Another care assistant takes them round the Home , introduces them to other staff and residents and helps them settle in . |
| 4 | His deputy or the senior care assistant takes them round the home , introduces them to other staff and residents and helps them settle in . |
| 5 | It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills . |
| 6 | Waxing the skis helps them to slide better and some slopes have a lubrication system which further reduces friction . |
| 7 | It also reduces stress , makes people more sociable , helps them to sleep , may lower blood pressure and may even reduce the incidence of gallstones . |
| 8 | This helps them to see a 3-D object as a simpler , two-dimensional configuration of lines and shapes . |
| 9 | By shaving they have an aerodynamic advantage because the absence of hair helps them to go faster . |
| 10 | This has led officials from the Department of Antiquities to offer rewards to anyone who helps them recover a lost item , as happened in Kirkuk where some people have already received between two and three thousand Dinars ( less than £1 ) for turning items over to the Department . |
| 11 | ‘ They do n't have a lot left over for themselves and they see smoking as an affordable luxury which helps them cope . ’ |
| 12 | COPING : Alison Hillhouse says poorer women think smoking helps them cope . |
| 13 | It 's helps them cope with the experience if they if they if they do n't define it as abusive . |
| 14 | Some women find a cup of strong coffee every hour or so helpful , as it helps them pass more water . |
| 15 | Doing this helps them to decide whether they can subscribe to it or not . |
| 16 | Quinton and his colleagues suggest that girls with positive experiences of school acquire a sense of their own worth and of their ability to control their own destinies , which in turn helps them to cope and resolve their difficulties and plan their own future . |
| 17 | It helps them negotiate meanings , both linguistic and social . |
| 18 | But more importantly , as far as Roddick is concerned , each franchised outlet is required to take on a community project in its area , which she believes gives the young women in the organisation additional status and helps them to realise that everybody has the ability to change the world for the better . |
| 19 | At levels 9 and 10 , the activities themselves will not differ significantly in kind , but pupils will require teaching which helps them to act with increasing confidence and fluency , to take a leading role in discussions , to be supportive of the contributions of others , to prepare presentations effectively ( including the use of audiovisual aids and handouts ) , to be rigorous in argument and the use of evidence , and to take effective account of audience and context . |
| 20 | Such remarks can be an invitation to the teacher to come and listen or look , and as she shares the children 's enjoyment and pride or helps them to sort out their problems , there are times when this will involve ideas which are mathematical . |
| 21 | It also helps them realize that there are other people who have similar problems and difficulties , and that they are not alone in their plight . |
| 22 | It helps them to follow the scene in their high-speed world , and so track the rapid movements of predators of prey . |
| 23 | It helps them to find their centre of balance when working close together and also to counter-balance their weight when necessary . |
| 24 | But all the time they are hardening their muscles and sharpening their wits , so that the pretence of being grown-up helps them to grow up in earnest . ’ |
| 25 | This helps them to keep up with their subject and sometimes with their colleagues . |
| 26 | Such reading is invaluable because it not only consolidates what learners already know , it helps them to develop that general feel for a language which can give such a boost to the learning process . |
| 27 | By utilising their collective knowledge of who and what is primarily involved in their problem , and by encouraging the group to pursue its own documentary research the video helps them to legitimise their case . |
| 28 | He then helps them to begin to envisage possible ways of reacting , including mastery of negative feelings . |
| 29 | Cross-bred dogs have a thing called hybrid vigour which helps them to fight disease . |
| 30 | Masochism is a defence against unacknowledged sadism and masochists will , in the terms of the unconscious ‘ fit ’ between partners , tend to marry not necessarily a conscious sadist , but often one who helps them to maintain a masochistic role . |