Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Whim , technical marketing manager in the solvents marketing department at ICI Chlor-Chemicals , said that ‘ we are encouraging them to understand that carbon tet is being withdrawn and that their customers should find alternatives . |
| 2 | Instead , manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays . |
| 3 | But one official told TODAY : ‘ The Press has been wanting us to make some statement on the marriage and Morton 's book for some time . |
| 4 | When you sign the Deed of Covenant , it means you 're helping us to give more help to more children . |
| 5 | Police have admitted that there are easy pickings for thieves at some museums and galleries , and they 're warning them to take extra precautions . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're teachin' us to win this competition . |
| 7 | we 're taking her to see that property and er have a look around and see if there 's any more . |
| 8 | We have been running it to get democratic power to serve the people of this country , ’ said Kinnock , provoking the most spontaneous and emotional standing ovation seen in three weeks . |
| 9 | They still do not concede that we are doing nothing to force any GP to spend less time with his patients . |
| 10 | This month is different because I am asking you to help other people . |
| 11 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 12 | He says to me when I 'm helping him to learn this rubbish : ‘ It 's not true , is it Grandad ? ’ |
| 13 | Erm , so I would certainly be asking you to keep some contingency provision in that area , because we project some very expensive one-off demands on certain elements of children 's services . |
| 14 | This is why we will be advising you to have three meals and on or two snacks per day . |
| 15 | And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary . |
| 16 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 17 | This is helping them to investigate global warming . |
| 18 | A business man who claims his bank is forcing him to pay exorbitant charges has started a local campaign to force the banks to change their ways . |
| 19 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 20 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |