Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists . |
| 2 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 3 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 4 | Jack Boyle ( Brian Devlin ) showed very good comic timing , helping to set up the comic aspect of the play . |
| 5 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 6 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 7 | Although the publishers rejected the idea of a joint imprint , they do have to market the books jointly — but in such a way that the public and foreign publishers looking to pick up the foreign rights are not confused . |
| 8 | There 's a bloody riot going on , the town is crammed with nigs , er blacks , and they are looking to sort out the Young Conservatives . |
| 9 | Outside London , there has also been a trend towards larger practices seeking to soak up the commercial work which remains in the provincial cities of England and Wales . |
| 10 | Research has markedly redressed the unfounded and ill-wishing treatment of it dished out by the zealots seeking to bring about the hardened approach to poverty eventually enacted in the harsh workhouse-based act of 1834 . |
| 11 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 12 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 13 | He was laboriously attempting to sort out the financial details of the scheme he had put to Christian . |
| 14 | Mr Toubon has denied the rumour which circulated in Paris after the March General Election that he was going to shut down the trouble-torn Bastille Opera to carry out a complete technical and financial inventory . |
| 15 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 16 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 17 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 18 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |
| 19 | ‘ The duty engineer will consult the computer before deciding to call out the gritting teams . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 21 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 22 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 23 | Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow . |
| 24 | The Independent Labour Party in its rapid decline gave rise to several minorities besides those going to make up the Socialist League . |
| 25 | It is an exciting place to play golf , with plenty of water and long sandy wastes just waiting to gobble up the wayward shots . |
| 26 | Change , whether it be in the curriculum , in assessment , in the relationship between school and community , in resource management or in any other area of school , can not be managed effectively ( in anything other than the short term ) without also making appropriate changes to the management structures and processes which are actually attempting to bring about the substantive developments . |
| 27 | He showed us videos of them in action and I was convinced he was going to bring out the old Kirk Douglas film The Vikings to empha-sise the point , ’ said Neal . |
| 28 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 29 | There is an increasing number of local authorities , universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea . |
| 30 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |