Example sentences of "may [vb infin] helped " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 2 | What Yeroen hoped to gain by his play-acting is not clear , though it may have helped to defuse further aggression . |
| 3 | By the same token Mr Kenneth Baker , as loyally supportive of Mrs Thatcher as Mr Heseltine was not , may have helped himself . |
| 4 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 5 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 6 | Marital difficulties in Fergie 's ‘ Southfork ’ may have helped too . |
| 7 | Whilst this use of ‘ creative ’ accountancy may have helped to avoid the harsh reality of nuclear power 's burdensome construction charges , there have also been major problems in the area of running costs . |
| 8 | Bells played a prominent part in medieval life , and mechanisms for ringing them , made of toothed wheels and oscillating levers , may have helped to prepare for the invention of mechanical clocks . |
| 9 | He was also a strong , well-built man , so his good physique may have helped him . |
| 10 | It is the hope of the writers and publishers of this booklet that they may have helped you decide how you should use that influence . |
| 11 | They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners . |
| 12 | We have dwelt too long among the great ; for all these cities , vital as their history was for the future , give little help in explaining the extraordinary prosperity of the smaller cities — though the precocious growth of Pisa may have helped its Tuscan neighbours . |
| 13 | This fact may have helped fuel a legend that a whole village , except for one cottage , was drowned when cursed by a poor old man , an angel or a saint in disguise : |
| 14 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 15 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 16 | Ironically , this year 's appalling British summer may have helped , with foreign holiday bookings receiving a boost . |
| 17 | Sally also said the fact that Lesley was prepared for danger may have helped her . |
| 18 | The weather may have helped but , as she saw things now in between the momentary spasms of pain , it was going to happen anyway . |
| 19 | We 'd like to hear from you with the results of how you got on and how this book may have helped you decide what you want to do . |
| 20 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 21 | By investing the war with a transcendent moral purpose , Acland may have helped his followers to silence the promptings of their pacifist consciences . |
| 22 | Ironically , Muse 's mistake at the final flight may have helped his cause . |
| 23 | This suggestion wo n't help Mrs Mitchell with her hedgehog of course and I 'm sorry about that , but she may have helped the rest of us to avoid the problem . |
| 24 | The Whitney retrospective may have helped sell three good Basquiats at Sotheby 's , though two difficult , insubstantial pieces failed at Christie 's . |
| 25 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 26 | Meredith Jones had worked the educational network ; Philip had engineered the ATC cadet to Oxford on another network ; Emlyn Williams was the centre of a growing Welsh network , the ‘ Tafia ’ ; Binkie Beaumont ( who had started work in a theatre in Cardiff — the Welsh connection may have helped Burton once again ) was the unlikely Godfather of the London network : Burton himself was to become a Godfather and enjoy it enormously . |
| 27 | Historians of publishing have also detected some tendency towards specialisation amongst publishers by the 1780s and 1790s and this may have helped the appearance of antislavery writing . |
| 28 | Now that the attentions of the KGB have vaporised ( they forced him to store or hide his machines , they may have helped him defect ) , the urge is to fly again . |
| 29 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |
| 30 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |