Example sentences of "it [modal v] help [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes members of the jury we will resume at two o'clock , erm because I have other duties later on this afternoon we 'll have to finish at four o'clock today , it may help you to know that , it may help council to know that as well .
2 As well as being important in the homing of fish , scent guides many amphibians to their ponds , and it may help turtles to find their nesting beaches .
3 Of course it may help feminists when , in a Christian invocation to worship , God is referred to as for example ‘ Creator , Redeemer and Sanctifier ’ .
4 The opportunity to see a semantic net and dynamically generate outlines from it may help authors mold the desired document .
5 It may help readers to visualize this unmarked deictic centre if they can imagine a four-dimensional space , composed of the three dimensions of space plus that of time , in which a speaker stands at the centre .
6 It may help people to drink more if you measure out this amount into a stock of glasses or cups , so that they can see for themselves how much this means .
7 Together the studies will produce valuable information from two perspectives concerning the meaning of social support and how it may help people in difficult circumstances .
8 And it must help pupils to come to their own commitments as they live their lives in a world of confusing , diverse and often conflicting values and beliefs .
9 Mary wrote her life story as a therapy for herself , and also because she felt it might help others caught up , directly or indirectly , in the occult .
10 I hope it might help others who , like me , would do anything rather than latch off !
11 Though it might help Britain 's unemployment problem , who wants to harvest our annual 6 to 7 million tonnes of home-grown potato crop by hand !
12 It might help readers of the letter to quote the paragraph that followed the one you half quoted and half summarised :
13 It might help designers if a history of mismatches that arose during trials and the actions taken to correct them , was kept ; indeed we feel that some of the particular cases do lead to useful generalization .
14 While it might help submarines to detect fishing activity , it should not be seen to take the onus of avoiding fishing vessels away from submarines .
15 It 'll help Harvey if he hears his son did n't suffer none .
16 Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer .
17 Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer .
18 I , do n't mind being used as a guinea pig because I feel that it 'll help people in the future .
19 The Prime Minister has pledged to add more weight to his Citizen 's Charter saying it 'll help people with complaints about delays in health treatment and problems with public transport .
20 This short , single dose study , however , is not sufficient to confirm the therapeutic value of psyllium in the longterm reduction of food intake in overweight patients , but by delaying the return of hunger , it could help patients to comply with diets .
21 Certainly the saw he bought for the mill I think that has great prospects and you know there 's no two ways about it , it could help production and ease the work of the workforce .
22 It would help Hank out — and probably nobody would recognize you anyway . ’
23 Commentators claimed that it would help Sevan in his efforts to persuade hardline mujaheddin groups , in particular Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's Hezb-i-Islami , to attend an " Afghan gathering " in Europe in April as a first step towards the establishment of an interim government .
24 Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters .
25 I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma .
26 She said it would help Sarah to get over the loss , and it did . ’
27 Do you think it would help world leaders if they did some ?
28 The partners said the acquisition was aimed at giving CGI Informatique access to the large commercial network of IBM plus IBM 's skill in systems integration , and it would help CGI 's expansion , especially its international expansion .
29 After that meeting had finished , it would help police enquiries if the tourists could be kept amused for the rest of the morning .
30 ‘ I think it would help relations between client and accountant , since the small company client often sees the audit as a waste of money and finds it hard to appreciate the amount of time involved in vouching and verifying figures for audit .
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