Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her boyfriend has been helping comfort her grieving family in Gloucester . |
| 2 | Aye , coupled to a scum gangster , as though there was no difference between Yakobi and some undercity vermin — whereas Yakobi had been helping hold the line against such vicious filth , on behalf , yes ultimately on behalf , of those selfsame upper-spire revellers ! |
| 3 | Members of the Action Group are helping redress the balance with local initiatives to improve the area . |
| 4 | So why not join us , knowing that you are helping conserve the British countryside for yourself and generations to come ? |
| 5 | TODAY Ian will be walking from Devonport to Kingsbridge — a total of 23.2 miles — and still looks well on course to win his bet with Corals , the bookmakers who are helping sponsor this trip . |
| 6 | THE football stars of AC Milan are helping sell British lamb to soccer-mad Italians . |
| 7 | Two fields that came on stream in 1992 are helping maintain this level of output : Miller ( BP : 40% ) now produces xx barrels of oil a day ( b/d ) and yy million cubic feet of gas a day ( cf/d ) , while Donan ( BP : 100% ) produces yy b/d . |
| 8 | Such are the changes infiltrating society that now long-serving criminals are helping supply the soundtrack to the big throwdown . |
| 9 | There was also a walled kitchen garden , which had been let go to grass , and a large hole had been knocked into one of the walls to let the tractor in to mow it . |
| 10 | or some old clutching having been let go . |
| 11 | With Rochester it 's been let go . |
| 12 | I should n't have been let touch it . ’ |
| 13 | Or not been let run up against them ) , and then the " ungrammaticality " of *John was seen leave is explained by the absence of to . |
| 14 | We are let know by it that she is a person of Taste … |
| 15 | Reluctantly I am let go . |
| 16 | I would have thought how stupid it was if I 'd been made do it . |
| 17 | I shall argue that the suggestions which have been made carry with them grave problems . |
| 18 | It by no means follows that if B had been made bankrupt the dividend would have amounted to the sum obtained , so that the bank might have got less . |
| 19 | Some of the allegations that have been made have led to libel proceedings . |
| 20 | Those demands that have so far been made have come from Slovakia , the most controversial concerning a fourteenth-century Italian Gothic altar . |
| 21 | The type of observations that have been made have been quintessentially Darwinian . |
| 22 | Since there is no single , objective definition of " temporary " , measurement attempts which have been made have had to rely upon subjective definitions , either of workers or of employers . |
| 23 | Marie-Claire Alain makes a wonderful sound on the organ of the Vienna Konzerthaus , and at least this disc has the advantage of having been made withe the organ and orchestra in the same building . |
| 24 | However , in all fairness to such horses and ponies , many are made mean by callous adults . |
| 25 | Women 's answers to the questionnaires by which assignments to ‘ stages ’ are made show them to be more heavily represented in the early stages of development rather than the later . |
| 26 | The details of how the connections are made appear in ‘ Curriculum to serve society , how schools can work for people ’ which incorporates a case-study of how we in Rawlins have thought about this problem . |
| 27 | Any criteria can be used in this situation , provided , of course , that the data on which decision are made have been captured or can be sourced . |
| 28 | Families who 'll be watching to see what changes are made say they only want to make sure further tragedies are avoided . |
| 29 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 30 | In the meantime , they 're making do without furniture . |