helpful guide
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhelpfulandguide
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helpful
adjective
uk/ˈhelp.fəl/us/ˈhelp.fəl/
willing to help, ...
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guide
noun[C]
uk/ɡaɪd/us/ɡaɪd/
a book that gives you the most important information about a ...
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(Definition ofhelpfulandguidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of these, a majority considered the face to be ahelpfulguideto personality.
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It will be ahelpfulguidefor seed ecologists, at least until the third edition is published (in 2008?).
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The overall statistics are not, therefore, ahelpfulguide.
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They are merely intended as ahelpfulguide.
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While it is a rudimentary task, it is also ahelpfulguidewhen trying to distinguish one tree in the forest from another.
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This chapter, which could have served as an introduction to the whole book, is ahelpfulguideto the innumerable issues and problems raised in the case studies.
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Not only is there an excellent set of readings here, the editors have also produced a veryhelpfulguideto those readings and to the field in general.
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This sort of clause would be ahelpfulguideto directors.
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I myself do not find notional foreign exchange loans to be ahelpfulguidetowards formulating policy on new borrowings.
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While this thinking was not fully reflected in chapters included in this book, the framework proposed could provide ahelpfulguidefor future discussions of the soil quality concept.
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If we could have given to us an estimate of this cost within, say, a few hundred thousand pounds, it would be ahelpfulguide.
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They afford no useful orhelpfulguideto normal periods of imprisonment or to the normal penalties of our criminal law.
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It would be ahelpfulguidefor gifting flowers for someones birthday.
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Third, learning more about how people cope with homesickness is ahelpfulguideto designing treatment programs.
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