Example sentences of "but help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some researchers think the STM may have a more distant future not just analysing molecules and microcircuits but helping to make them . |
| 2 | The initial guidance would normally come from the advisory service but helping to put those suggestions into practice should be the role of the training services . |
| 3 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 4 | It was difficult to refuse and thereby block their chances , but helping one student set a precedent ; any foreigners were plunged into moral dilemmas by their students who wanted help to go abroad . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it does seem reasonable to suggest that teachers need to be aware that when tackling many writing tasks pupils will achieve a greater degree of success , both as writers and as learners , if they can work in stages , and if within these stages they have sympathetic and informed support from both teachers and peers — not , I would insist , seeking to impose a preconceived notion of how to plan or how to write , but helping pupils to discover what works best for them . |
| 6 | But helping … |
| 7 | ‘ I got to Holland and Belgium last August with the Ireland training panel but failed to win my first cap , but helping Ulster to another Leinster Regiment Cup may be just the springboard this time . ’ |
| 8 | But helping our spread if you know what I mean . |
| 9 | Roy signed for aspiring Ipswich Town , then still of the 3rd Division , but helped them into Division Two the next season and then on to the 1st Division Championship . |
| 10 | In three years the newly formed Red Army not only managed to defeat three White armies and detachments of their foreign allies , but helped to impose Soviet control over the Muslim and Far Eastern borderlands , and Soviet dependencies in Tannu-Tuva , Outer Mongolia and Northern Iran . |
| 11 | Aunt Emily may have been spoiled but she was irresistibly spoilable because she was so generous , so imaginative , she did not try to destroy people 's pictures of themselves as you do , but helped them to build them up ! |
| 12 | They did n't chase my assailants but helped me to my feet , solicitously enquiring after my health . |
| 13 | But helped by the wind it cleared the hump in the middle of the fairway , bounced high off the forward slope and ran through the narrow gap between the bunkers . |
| 14 | The sale of 4P packaging and the BOCM Silcock animal feed business slowed sales growth , but helped cut net debt from £1.5 billion to £1.2 billion , and interest costs almost halved to £148 million . |
| 15 | But to help you even further , from now on we will print the next deadline at the foot of the final Readers ' Ads page each month , so you know exactly where you stand . |
| 16 | When people such as Martin , consult me not in order to seek help in overcoming a particular problem , but to help them to understand themselves , their motivation and their spiritual journey better , I do not see the patient at weekly or fortnightly intervals but leave gaps of anything up to six or eight weeks between visits . |
| 17 | another person is present at all times , not merely to assist the subject to enter the regressed state but to help him avoid any difficulty or distress ; |
| 18 | The aim of this approach is not so much to offer care and protection , but to help people to reach their ‘ full potential ’ . |
| 19 | But to help users make the transition from VAX architectures to Alpha , the company is expected to unveil 35 open systems migration centres around the world at next week 's Open Forum conference in Utrecht , Netherlands . |
| 20 | The task of the radio preacher is not to sell his or her own religion like soap powder but to help listeners compose the ‘ scripture ’ of their own lives . |
| 21 | Styles vary but to help you make your choice please note : |
| 22 | Styles and designs vary greatly but to help you make your choice please note : |
| 23 | Styles and designs vary but to help you make your choice , please note : |
| 24 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 25 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 26 | But the function of to be , surely , is not to supply logically independent existence predicates , but to help turn other words into predicates . |
| 27 | But to help shopping go smoothly , follow these points . |
| 28 | As the subject assessment proceeded it also became clear that the Subject Assessors were there to be supportive — not to look for mistakes , but to help us ’ . |
| 29 | Not only to protect the child within me from her jealousy , but to help Sarah too . |
| 30 | Dr Neil 's face was nearly as grey as his patient 's , and she did not wish to distract him , but to help him , rather . |