Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student Keith Marsh is particularly interested in science and has organised a trip for pupils to use the college laboratories while Clare Phillips is helping in the primary school library . |
| 2 | Gentleman is touching on the other matter about the STUCC and its remit — a matter that was mentioned by the Hon. |
| 3 | It is touching on the social sciences in the sense that Woodrow Wilson was an important political figure , and there is an historical dimension . |
| 4 | A third priority raised is contracting with the independent sector . |
| 5 | The invader is hanging onto the shredded sugar cane to try to prevent his fall . |
| 6 | If exclusion is to be permanent , the LEA 's decision on whether to order the pupil 's reinstatement is binding on the head teacher , although the governors may appeal against an LEA 's refusal to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil , using the same machinery which the LEA is required to establish for such appeals by parents ( and pupils if aged 18 or over ) . |
| 7 | Here is Nicholas Winterton on the same occasion : ‘ Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister confirm that the ‘ no ’ vote in Denmark is binding upon the Danish Government ? ’ |
| 8 | By encouraging transport users to choose road rather than rail , the Scottish Office is capitulating to the powerful car and construction lobbies , and adding to already unbearable development pressures . |
| 9 | In LBC 's case , for example , the LBC Crown FM is going for the upmarket listener , while the medium wave service , London Talkback Radio , is pitching for the tabloid market and the dedicated followers of phone-ins . |
| 10 | During the process of learning the student is working to achieve something ; knowledge of how close her performance is approximating to the desired goal not only has a motivating effect , but if given in sufficient detail provides information which enables her to adjust her learning nearer to the goal . |
| 11 | ‘ Even the moon 's blushing at the horrible way they treat ponies , ’ she snarled . |
| 12 | The study is building on the substantial data collection made by the Personal Social Services Research Unit in 1983 from these sectors . |
| 13 | Made jittery by the successes of the Republicans , the CSU is pandering to the far right by questioning the legitimacy of Germany 's post-Second World War frontiers . |
| 14 | The National Library of Scotland is collaborating with the British Library and the other legal deposit libraries of the British Isles in a pilot project of shared cataloguing in order to improve the currency and coverage of catalogue records for British books by sharing the responsibility for the creation of those records . |
| 15 | Without Nashwan , the chief British-trained challenger in the Arc will be Aliysa , who is competing with the recent winner of the Prix Vermeille , Young Mother , for favouritism . |
| 16 | So what 's cooking on the alternative fuels front ? |
| 17 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 18 | Last night Mr Lamont said : ‘ The figures show confidence is returning to the high street . |
| 19 | In both cases the camouflage is interfering with the natural elements , but in one case it is attacking the whole shape , while in the other it is blotting out the appendages . |
| 20 | We know something is interfering with the natural motion of the craft , but is this force making us accelerate , or is it stopping us falling under gravity ? |
| 21 | Wirral-born Ron Minshull , who emigrated to Canada over 30 years ago , is appearing with the Merseysippi Jazz Band who have been performing in Sacramento . |
| 22 | He is appearing in the legal action for more than 800 Lloyd 's members who are trying to freeze their assets to prevent loss-making syndicates from calling in deposits at Lloyd 's . |
| 23 | John Hayward , with whom he wed to live , is keeping on the old flat , and Eliot has paid up the rent for another two years . |
| 24 | The Government refuses to publish reports showing whether the tobacco industry is keeping to the voluntary agreements that restrict tobacco advertising near schools . |
| 25 | In the late afternoon , as he is walking past the Little Palace ( ***Bramante 1512 , chapel by Michelangelo , later additions by Bernini , Wren , Pugin , and van der Rohe ) , whistles begin to shrill , and policemen appear from nowhere to stop the traffic and hold back pedestrians from crossing the road . |
| 26 | The Government is pressing for the entire ERM system to be suspended until after France 's referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on Sunday . |
| 27 | and try and find out what they want and what 's happening to the social services and y you know what they think about er what they 'd , what skills they 'd like you to have and the sort of experience you need and so on . |
| 28 | According to Lorraine Thorne of the Environmental Investigation Agency : " We just do n't know what 's happening to the marine ecosystem of the Antarctic . |
| 29 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 30 | If you can tell him what 's happening with the other players he 's happy because then he knows what there is to do . |