Example sentences of "helps [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 's just saying that in a group if we look at the historical background of the language , it helps to see you know how What the strong points are of the linguistic and what we need to be bolstered on . |
| 2 | The hostility which farmers have recently provoked from many environmentalists also helps to confirm them in their characteristic persecution complex , associated with being a small , closely knit minority in an urban industrial society . |
| 3 | Some animals compromise by being active at dawn and dusk when the hazy twilight helps to hide them . |
| 4 | And it helps to know it happens to beautiful women , too . |
| 5 | The theory , stated firmly in most gardening manuals , that planting potatoes the first year on neglected land helps to clean it of weeds was erroneous — at least as far as ours was concerned . |
| 6 | There are really two options when it comes to preventing unwanted feelings and the following diagram showing the chronological sequence of events helps to pinpoint them : |
| 7 | At the moment it helps to console me for my lack in that direction . ’ |
| 8 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 9 | It is to be distinguished from the relation of assignment ( below ) , notably because , in qualification , the property of the sub-ordinate element — even where that is an adjective — may not be true of the whole , despite the fact that it helps to identify it . |
| 10 | And to rub on there and it helps to calm it down . |
| 11 | As with the loop , your first roll should be performed by climbing to a safe height , putting on lots of forward speed ( it helps to do it downwind ) and holding the lateral cyclic hard over until the roll is complete . |
| 12 | ‘ We try to encourage them to do something original ; every now and again they succeed and it all helps to build them up . ’ |
| 13 | He may bring problems but he also helps to solve them ’ . |
| 14 | The small piece of plastic or glass fibre protruding at the tail of the board which helps to keep it sailing in a straight line . |
| 15 | I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side . |
| 16 | All amphibians have mucous glands in their skin which produce a slime that helps to keep it moist and some of these in the firebelly 's skin produce a bitter-tasting poison . |
| 17 | Alternatively , rub the surface with lemon , which helps to keep it smelling fresh and reduces staining . |
| 18 | Suppleness helps to keep you looking younger too as you will be able to move and walk better in later years . |
| 19 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 20 | What man is n't susceptible to a beautiful woman , believing that she both graces the Earth and helps to civilize it . |
| 21 | A folded white card helps to distribute them evenly . |
| 22 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 23 | The rough texture of the coat helps to protect it in undergrowth . |
| 24 | It helps to read it . |
| 25 | JEWKES helps to hold her down . ] |
| 26 | The use of word-processing helps to release them to be concerned with the content and not restrained by the process . |
| 27 | It helps to relax you and provides a beat to keep the momentum going . |
| 28 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 29 | And this helps to foster it because the tourist contribute well to the funds and this gets the children more prize money and so on . |
| 30 | Society too , of course , changes ( and helps to change us ) , but whether it develops and matures is a matter for another debate . |