noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
generous amount/helping/measure etc
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a generous helping of pasta
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
generous
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The idea is to introduce a generous helping of loose feed in the first instance.
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Bar meals with good menu and generous helpings .
important
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They felt this was important in helping them to get through the difficulties associated with unemployment.
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Supporters like Jim Cummins maintain that heritage language teaching is an important step in helping immigrant students realize their potential.
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TECs play an important role in helping companies attain it.
large
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Serving large helpings , I ate nothing myself and my abstinence was only another proof of my moral superiority.
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Everyone knew that the leader of the party had to be given larger helpings than anyone else.
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Menus tend to be Germanic with large helpings of soup, veal or sausage and Rösti potatoes.
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The largest national charity helping people with drink, drug and mental health problems.
■ NOUN
child
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Practical investigations Practical investigations are central to helping children to express and develop their ideas.
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The Duchess is patron of the charity dedicated to helping children and adults with mental disabilities to overcome their handicaps.
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It is an entertaining program helping children to add, subtract, multiply and divide quickly and accurately.
hand
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But they're frustrated that most of the time, they're forced to rely on a helping hand .
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Professionals should take comfort that a helping hand is available if needed.
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The one giving the helping hand looked at me and Thorpey but that was all.
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He wasn't even offering her a helping hand , she brooded.
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A helping hand on the Nfis Slabs.
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Today, George is still going strong, giving his son, Robin a helping hand with the ploughing.
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The Basques, romantics to a man, believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand .
others
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Much students' time is also spent helping others .
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Britain is rich in its citizens' willingness to give time, effort and money to helping others .
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In the end the Profitboss helps himself by helping others .
people
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You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
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Can we develop techniques for helping people to make better forecasts?
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The Citizens' Advice Bureaux are used to helping people sort out their debt problems.
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She had dedicated her life to helping people and animals.
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She said council was helping people by providing mortgages to those who would not normally qualify.
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Both were professional people with a vested interest in helping people - a doctor and a Baptist minister.
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The largest national charity helping people with drink, drug and mental health problems.
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Are there any organisations which specialise in helping people like me?
police
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A 19-year old man from the Basildon area was last night helping police with their inquiries at Clacton police station.
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Boys quizzed: Four boys were last night helping police with their inquiries into two separate fires in Peterlee.
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A man was last night helping police with their inquiries.
pupil
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Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years.
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A structure for reflective thinking For helping pupils towards greater sophistication in their thinking, the following suggestions may be helpful.
teacher
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Formative assessment seeks to serve pupils' interests by helping teachers teach more effectively.
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By helping teachers understand classroom roles, it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning.
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Central to these were ways of helping teachers become more effective classroom managers - in both initial and in-service training.
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By helping teachers to set real-life problems for pupils, employers get a better class of recruit.
■ VERB
aim
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Reformed systems of direct support, aimed in particular at helping family farms and crofts.
decide
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But the factors influencing ratings given to television for helping people decide how to Vote were different.
develop
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Audiocassettes and videocassettes therefore have a powerful potential for helping individuals to develop culturally, socially, and in the religious sphere.
give
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The one giving the helping hand looked at me and Thorpey but that was all.
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Everyone knew that the leader of the party had to be given larger helpings than anyone else.
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The Basques, romantics to a man, believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand.
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Even with housed animals they normally gave their husbands a helping hand.
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This is often the result of inexperienced people trying to give a helping hand to get the gliders out.
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But the factors influencing ratings given to television for helping people decide how to Vote were different.
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He spoke to a cook and used to be given second helpings .
lend
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Britain's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand.
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Petion, follow them and lend a helping hand.
offer
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He wasn't even offering her a helping hand, she brooded.
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This may be a piece of work offering straight forward short-term helping around obtaining a service.
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On the whole, though, relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable.
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We can offer you a helping hand.
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Virginia Woolf thought him charming, especially because he offered her extra helpings of chocolate roll.
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Ideal Home is offering you a helping hand.
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The Natural Selection offers a helping hand to extend the spirit of a free world.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a helping hand
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A few guidelines are all that is needed: Be considerate of others, give a helping hand, be safe.
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Britain's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand.
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Everyone had a view: The proposal was an insult, a helping hand, a roadblock, a learning aid.
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He wasn't even offering her a helping hand, she brooded.
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People do need a helping hand.
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The Basques, romantics to a man, believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand.
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Today, George is still going strong, giving his son, Robin a helping hand with the ploughing.
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Which makes it an excellent jumping off point if you need a helping hand.
sb is helping the police with their enquiries
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anyone want a second helping ?
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He held out his bowl for another helping .
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He took a huge helping of potatoes.
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She took another helping of pie when she thought no one was looking.
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They had turkey and stuffing topped off with large helpings of mashed potatoes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Charles Aught has the best working relations with Donne, Roy Chase is the best at helping people, and so on.
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I muttered something about helping and followed her out.
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Our newly created marketing team has identified customer requirements in major markets as well as helping us to redevelop our corporate image.
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Pip has found contentment also by helping Herbert with is life by find and paying for him to start a job.
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She had dedicated her life to helping people and animals.
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The largest national charity helping people with drink, drug and mental health problems.
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The Women's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote.
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This makes it much easier to integrate teaching and assessment, as well as helping us to build up a rapport with our trainees.