Example sentences of "[adv] have help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Green voters will not have elected their own MP : they will merely have helped to elect one more Conservative MP . |
| 2 | It is mentioned in the Old Testament and Pliny likened its appearance to human genitals , which can only have helped its amatory cause . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've got to fancy his chances , particularly after Graham Taylor watched him against United — that can only have helped his cause . |
| 4 | The sharpened exhibitionism of Stavrogin 's wanting everybody to look at him will not have helped Dostoevsky with Katkov , but it does mark a step away from Crime and Punishment and closer to Notes from Underground . |
| 5 | A system of teacher appraisal , of the sort proposed in a report from a national steering group last week , would not have helped in either of these cases . |
| 6 | His initial appointment was for just two Tests , a demonstration of lack of faith that can not have helped his confidence and seemed to many to be ludicrous . |
| 7 | If the market thought the political news was bad , the business news can not have helped . |
| 8 | The publication of details at the time would not have helped the morale of the Allies , but it was impossible to prevent the incident being talked about by servicemen in the area . |
| 9 | West Ham 's 4–0 home win against Norwich on Saturday , their biggest in the League this season , will not have helped the protesters ' cause . |
| 10 | ‘ Material must have been impregnated with the liquid and it would not have helped put the fire out . ’ |
| 11 | Galileo 's association with Paolo Sarpi who , as leader of a Venetian revolt against the Roman Curia , was perceived as a crypto-Protestant could not have helped his case . |
| 12 | It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency . |
| 13 | ‘ I would have told it at once , ’ she said ruefully , ‘ but that it would not have helped him . |
| 14 | Would it not have helped British farmers if he had said that he was determined to support us and ensure that we succeeded ? |
| 15 | His worsening eyesight and declining health certainly heralded this decision , but the constraints of working for someone as particular and demanding as Gould could not have helped . |
| 16 | The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career . |
| 17 | His marital difficulties can not have helped , while his form and reflexes are patently awry , and he has failed to uplift his team . |
| 18 | And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody . |
| 19 | Travellers might gradually have helped to make the marker more obvious . |
| 20 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
| 21 | It would also have helped to eliminate contradictions between authors such as the use of incorrect units . |
| 22 | A declining agricultural workforce may also have helped to convince local interests there was no real demand for rural council housing . |
| 23 | The translation must also have helped proselytism , which acquired quite different dimensions as soon as the Jews began to speak Greek . |
| 24 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 25 | Later in the same year the MWCo was instrumental in having a receiver appointed to run the railway — a move which may well have helped to keep the BCR alive for so many years . |
| 26 | As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement . |
| 27 | He gave Michael an injection of penicillin — prompt action which could well have helped save his life . |
| 28 | This was surprising because Peter Such bowled so well at the other end , it should surely have helped Tufnell . |
| 29 | ‘ Mind you , it ca n't have helped working all this time for Ricky France-Lynch . |
| 30 | ‘ It would n't have helped being brave . |