adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/useful/helpful/handy tip
▪ Go to their website to find useful tips on buying and selling a home.
a helpful/constructive comment (=one that helps you make progress)
▪ Pay close attention to your teacher’s constructive comments.
a helpful/useful/valuable suggestion
▪ He made various helpful suggestions.
good/excellent/useful/helpful
▪ The book is full of good advice.
practical/useful/helpful pointers
▪ a few useful pointers about using the technique
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ It is also helpful to know that he or she was by no means alone and that many others suffered in the same way.
▪ It is also helpful to use tangible rewards.
▪ It is also helpful to have some knowledge of trends in publishing.
▪ It is also helpful to put the glass down when not sipping.
▪ It's also helpful if you tend to have low expectations of yourself and of making demands on others.
▪ Measurements of 25OHD3 levels are also helpful.
▪ There are also helpful tips on troubleshooting.
▪ Plasticine is also helpful in keeping bones in position while they are being stuck.
as
▪ If all TECs are as helpful and supportive as Bradford, then long may they flourish.
especially
▪ Some moisturisers claim to be especially helpful at repairing this loss and strengthening your skin.
▪ The extra time has been especially helpful to the Cowboys because the Steelers do some different things.
▪ This group will be especially helpful to those who are left alone and need care and support.
▪ Many users report that having a written file of what was agreed on during a meeting is especially helpful.
▪ This will be especially helpful to those who suffer from lower back pain.
▪ This technique is especially helpful for certain types of homework assignments.
▪ The concept of practical consciousness is especially helpful in accommodating this commonplace fact.
extremely
▪ We checked in to the bright, airy Parkhotel Den Haag, where the staff were extremely helpful and pleasant.
▪ Anyway, it is extremely helpful in a young career because it leaves you fearless.
▪ Their comments have been extremely helpful.
▪ I explained to them that the information could be extremely helpful during the board meeting.
▪ Tables subdivided into Faults/Reasons/Remedies can be extremely helpful.
▪ My hon. Friend's comment is extremely helpful.
▪ However, it would be extremely helpful if those officers were medically trained.
how
▪ Yet just how helpful will it be to us?
▪ You may be surprised how helpful they can be.
▪ They know how helpful tears are to defuse tension and how constructive their aftermath can be.
▪ I thought your man, Duchek, ought to know, too, considering how helpful he's been.
more
▪ This Government's many imaginative and effective initiatives are far more helpful to the regions than any hare-brained scheme from Labour.
▪ The service could be so much broader and more creative, not to mention more helpful!
▪ However, his other suggestions are more helpful.
▪ Captain Merrill could not have been more helpful.
▪ An alternative analogy may be more helpful.
▪ The more filly a marker event can sum up the reality of what is ended, the more helpful it will be.
▪ There was no reason to believe that a Churchill ministry would be more helpful.
▪ The are willing to describe cases anonymously, though it would be more helpful if people were prepared to be named.
most
▪ The School Board is writing to support this initiative, and it would be most helpful if you could do likewise.
▪ A drawing as illustrated in the previous subsection should be most helpful to the readers of your proposal.
▪ Performance measures are usually most helpful when used for comparisons: for example, between units performing similar tasks, or over time.
▪ People often approach writing like medicine, believing that the most unpleasant-tasting doses are the most helpful.
▪ Eye drops and nose sprays are among the most helpful treatments.
▪ This is a moment when pride and stubbornness in the permanent truths of the constitution are not the most helpful qualities.
▪ Local Government is their profession and their life and they are most helpful to the elected members.
▪ I do not understand the difference between these two kinds of therapists and wonder which would be most helpful for my wife.
often
▪ A technique used for revealing flaws in metal casings is often helpful in such cases.
▪ Ones that enhance the serotonin effects are often helpful in chronic pain disorders.
▪ Even when such a calculation is not followed through, the insight obtained from the Fourier series concept is often helpful.
▪ However, a small dose of a short-acting sedative at bedtime for sleeping is often helpful. 4.
▪ And in these matters it's often helpful to have a third party present.
▪ Here it if often helpful if you work with a partner, as long as you both think along the same lines.
▪ It is often helpful to group dynamics to introduce games and exercises into group discussion.
particularly
▪ This is particularly helpful to the student at the beginning of her allocation.
▪ The latter are particularly helpful since cholesterol becomes harmful when its chemical structure is changed through oxidisation.
▪ Text and images handled separately A combination of the above but not a particularly helpful treatment.
▪ The work of Eva Kittay is particularly helpful in this respect.
▪ But this month it is particularly helpful.
▪ The method of goal planning we will present here may be particularly helpful for clients with stress related problems.
▪ In the next chapter the diagrams are particularly helpful in explaining the application of ultrasound in non-intrusive diagnosis, inspection and monitoring.
▪ This is particularly helpful if your school's organisation seeks to register as a charity at a later date.
so
▪ Some women find a cup of strong coffee every hour or so helpful, as it helps them pass more water.
▪ They say unpleasant things about young people today, but I find them so helpful.
▪ Steroids, which are so helpful in other ways, can produce extensive acne on face, chest and back.
very
▪ That's all been very helpful.
▪ However, if the researcher had such skills it would be very helpful to the writing process.
▪ Expert advice from a local gym or sports centre can be very helpful when you are starting with weights.
▪ Quiet, consistent insistence by the parent is very helpful.
▪ It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise.
▪ Most dictionaries define praise by giving synonyms like glorify, extol, commend, magnify, which is not really very helpful.
▪ Personality has not been shown by industrial psychologists to be a very helpful predictor of performance.
▪ It is very helpful to attend a relatives' group.
■ NOUN
advice
▪ Who says I never give you helpful advice?
▪ A small light bulb next to the assistant indicates that it has some helpful advice to offer.
▪ It contains plenty of helpful advice on giving up smoking.
▪ For helpful advice, dial Trudy on any of the subjects listed right. 1.
▪ Contact Chartwell - you will receive friendly and helpful advice plus the best value for money quotation possible.
▪ Our sales staff are friendly, experienced people who are there to give you helpful advice.
▪ We will endeavour to provide helpful advice on finding partners and submitting proposals.
▪ The helpful advice received from the Electricity Board, had been passed on to them.
hint
▪ Do we ever see articles or helpful hints aimed at us?
▪ Beyond these guidelines, there are plenty of helpful hints to keep you on a low-fat track.
▪ The lads, as always, were on the phone all week with helpful hints.
▪ They were extremely receptive to the helpful hints offered by advice magazines, which were proliferating at the time.
▪ An instruction book is included in the box, with helpful hints and suggestions for projects.
▪ They actually like having a bloke in the passenger seat offering helpful hints at the top of his voice?
▪ This newspaper contains many helpful hints on job seeking as well as lots of varied and interesting job vacancies.
information
▪ The comment should therefore provide helpful information about why the work was abandoned in this instance.
▪ Wells adds wine suggestions, cooking tips or helpful information about ingredients with most recipes.&038;.
▪ Actively supply others with helpful information.
▪ From some relationships come helpful information and support, and often abiding friendships.
suggestion
▪ Do you have any helpful suggestions?
▪ More often than not a reader unfamiliar with your work will give you some of the most helpful suggestions.
▪ These channels are described in more detail in specialist publications which also offer helpful suggestions on how and when to use them.
▪ Any helpful suggestions or comments would also be welcome.
way
▪ It is the job of stylistics to relate linguistic description to interpretation in a clear and helpful way.
▪ When a child encounters an unfamiliar word, there are several helpful ways to intervene.
▪ One quite helpful way of understanding social change is to construct simplified, even idealised, pictures of a past community life.
▪ Asking the patient to recall a typical 24 hours eating pattern is often the most helpful way of assessing dietary habits.
▪ The farm business tenancy is a helpful way forward.
▪ However, it is a helpful way of determining whether any lessons can be learned for future projects.
▪ A survey is a very helpful way to begin to research the areas intelligently.
▪ This paper has provided an example of how the self-interest of solicitors is a more helpful way of viewing this group.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
less than helpful/honest/enthusiastic etc
▪ Although he did not reject a fact-finding mission outright, Major was clearly less than enthusiastic about the idea.
▪ But in the same interview Mr Dole, as is his way, was a little less than helpful to the president.
▪ But the way in which they are present may be less than helpful.
▪ In this dilemma, Eliot was less than helpful to his apologists.
▪ Not surprisingly, the reaction of local residents to the schemes was less than enthusiastic.
▪ The refugees are naturally less than enthusiastic about this.
▪ Those who had known him from that earlier period, however, were less than enthusiastic about his elevation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a helpful child
▪ A helpful woman at the tourist office gave me some tips on places to visit.
▪ I found these cassettes very helpful when I was learning Spanish.
▪ I think it would be helpful to summarize what we agreed at the last meeting.
▪ Thanks, Sam. You've been very helpful.
▪ The drug Prozac can be helpful in treating anxiety.
▪ The Student Cook Book provides basic helpful advice without sounding patronising.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consideration given to follow-up visits by officers, if suitable or helpful.
▪ Decongestants can be helpful, because they reduce the swelling of the lining of the nose, making air passage easier.
▪ However, his other suggestions are more helpful.
▪ I explained to them that the information could be extremely helpful during the board meeting.
▪ It is, of course, tremendously helpful to embellish school courses by providing related experiences at home.
▪ Miss Menzies couldn't be very helpful about the Datsun, though she answered all his questions very readily.
▪ Several other recent studies have shown that moderate consumption of red wine, in particular, is helpful for preventing heart disease.
▪ The local social work department is being most helpful in these matters.