Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he added , ‘ This will be the first time Ah 've visited the country , but havin' read Prescott myself Ah do n't think Ah 'm goin' to like the Spaniards and what they and the mestizos have done to it . ’ |
| 2 | The satisfaction of belonging to a worthwhile organisation and helping to promote the development of Medau work |
| 3 | Sun and water power in Toledo : BP Solar Espana is helping to connect a 1MW photovoltaic plant to the Spanish grid near Toledo in central Spain . |
| 4 | I 'm phoning to arrange a time … |
| 5 | However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it . |
| 6 | In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema . |
| 7 | In return , the Soviet Union pledges its support for the sanctity of Iraq 's own borders , promises to veto any attempt to impose penalties on Iraq , including any trial of Mr Hussein himself , and commits itself to helping to arrange a subsequent international discussion of regional issues . |
| 8 | Diseases in oilseed rape and winter beans , as well as wet soils after more than 180mm ( 7in ) of rain in June , are helping to paint a ‘ rather gloomy ’ picture this year , he adds . |
| 9 | In this way information is gradually built up , helping to paint a picture of the lives and lifestyles of the birds which appear so dramatically in the islands . |
| 10 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 11 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 12 | He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) . |
| 13 | When the Secretary of State was helping to draft the declaration on the middle east peace process , did he have in mind the curfew that has been placed on the Nablus and Hebron areas and on the Al-Bireh area and did he have in mind the illegal occupation of the houses in the Silwan area of Jerusalem ? |
| 14 | ‘ Woman with a heavy period , demanding to see a gynaecologist before she bleeds to death . |
| 15 | The protesters were demanding to see a confidential document written by Anglian Water to the Scottish Office about the reorganisation of Scottish water . |
| 16 | The protesters were demanding to see a confidential AW document to the Scottish Office about Scottish water . |
| 17 | As pressure intensified , Mr Hurd contacted UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali , demanding to see the Cambodian representative to the UN . |
| 18 | They have already complained to the waiter without satisfaction , so they have descended on the reception desk demanding to see the manager . |
| 19 | The butler was arguing with a tall fair man , threatening to send for the footmen to turn him away physically if he persisted in demanding to see the person who was refusing access to everyone , and particularly to anyone answering to the name of Cochrane . |
| 20 | He performed well in the Gulf War , helping to glue the coalition . |
| 21 | Likewise seeing involves a seer and a person or thing seen . |
| 22 | The houses claimed , however , that they had informed the Ministry of Finance of the payments in 1990 , and that the ministry had chosen not make the information public , preferring to instruct the securities houses to discipline those personnel responsible . |
| 23 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 24 | It was littered with ladders , pails and other decorators ' paraphernalia and the air was permeated with the odour of the chemical the workmen were using to strip the woodwork . |
| 25 | Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle . |
| 26 | For eight years Endill roamed around the big house , helping make the soups , walking through the hills , digging up the vegetables , bumping into his father by mistake and unscrewing the furniture when his mother was n't looking . |
| 27 | He tells the true story of a clergyman , Father Kleinsorge , who was helping to tend the wounded … . |
| 28 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 29 | The excavator suggests that the positioning of the doors and the size of the buildings ‘ does not seem to indicate an agricultural function ’ ( Millett 1983 , p. 247 ) , preferring to see the stability of the layout as a reflection of social units , whether divided by ‘ kinship , sex or status ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 30 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |