Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 2 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 3 | So , in effect , such accusations of mystical malevolence may help to ‘ blast away ’ redundant or obsolete links in the social structure of a community , thus paving the way for healthy new growth . |
| 4 | He says they may be worried about reactions from friends or family and the money may help . |
| 5 | Once a satisfactory entry point has been identified in an index , the instructions or guidelines in the index may help the searcher in improving retrieval . |
| 6 | Many similar statements can be found in the Law Reports : as Lord Wright put it in Luxor ( Eastbourne ) Ltd v Cooper [ 1941 ] AC 108 " Decisions on one contract may help by way of analogy and illustration in the decision of another contract . |
| 7 | Localities , locales and human interaction may help us to situate society and social change . |
| 8 | An earnout may help to continue to motivate the vendors and secure their services even after they have received the initial consideration . |
| 9 | ‘ I get down on my knees every day and pray that this election may help change things . |
| 10 | The discussion in the preceding section has emphasized how insights from the corporate-strategy literature may help in arriving at a sensible assessment of individual project cash flows , and that models need to be based upon theories about market success . |
| 11 | Consider if faith in God and prayer may help you — and your teenagers . |
| 12 | Your presence may help to concentrate its mind , however , and you can establish a routine whereby it can run around and play for a few minutes after it has performed as desired . |
| 13 | The Flow Chart may help to clarify the procedure . |
| 14 | Support may help a bereaved parent to cope with his or her own feelings of loss , and thereby be better able to recognise their children 's needs and vulnerability . |
| 15 | The Index at the back of the book will direct you to the details , but if you are only aware of a symptom , this checklist may help you to diagnose the plumbing problem . |
| 16 | Training and experience should help to make them more able . |
| 17 | However , he says that the points raised in the report have been ‘ taken seriously ’ by BAS , whose experience should help other groups faced with similar challenges . |
| 18 | As right-wing politicians proclaim that the school curriculum must help children understand Britain 's ‘ place in the world ’ , the virtues of defence or popular capitalism , their left-wing counterparts maintain that schools should concern themselves with issues like the role of the police in contemporary society , homosexuality and the rights of cultural and ethnic minorities . |
| 19 | The curriculum should help learners acquire and develop ( i ) knowledge and conceptual understanding , ( ii ) skills , ( iii ) personal qualities and attitudes , so that they will be able ( iv ) to take advantage of opportunities and cope with challenges in the various circumstances of their present and future lives — to enable and encourage them to contribute responsibly and constructively to society ( in its various facets ) and so that their personal lives may be enriched . |
| 20 | Top businessmen say Govt must help economy |
| 21 | Mohamed Mili , ITU secretary general until the end of 1982 , thinks there are two reasons why the West should help . |
| 22 | We talked about ways in which parents could encourage their children to read , and also the extent to which Dad or Mum should help with homework . |
| 23 | Although the European Parliament may get more power , its competence is still limited , so the German parliament must help to ensure some accountability over EC matters . |
| 24 | ‘ To know the law now offers such protection should help some of the difficulties associated with house purchasing which , for many , can be an extremely harrowing experience . |
| 25 | JOHN MAJOR 'S famous opt-out on the Maastricht social chapter may help British firms less than advertised . |
| 26 | However , the increased productivity of labour may help many firms to cut costs , enabling them to reduce prices and to expand their levels of output , thereby increasing their demands for all factor inputs , including labour . |
| 27 | To approach the scientific revolution with preconceived notions of what constitutes science and what constitutes religion may help in streamlining historical reconstruction . |
| 28 | The existence of this gap may help us to explain the links between legal positivism , utilitarianism , and the influence of French sociological positivism . |
| 29 | Although psychotherapeutic agents do not alter IBS symptoms , treatment of the psychological distress may help a patient to cope with them . |
| 30 | Having said that , they are also very keen to improve their standard of living and understand that the oil industry may help them to achieve this . ’ |