Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 2 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 3 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 4 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 5 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 6 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 7 | Intel needs to do some stroking among this class of customer even though Intel defenders claim the P5 schematics designers are using in the absence of silicon are so exact they should have little trouble getting up and running and out the door once the chips are delivered . |
| 8 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 9 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 10 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 11 | Two of the most exclusive beers in the world are drawing in the drinkers at the only pub where they 're sold . |
| 12 | On the contrary , we are drawing upon the consensus of unbiased contemporary New Testament scholarship . |
| 13 | With such questions , a major task lies in unpacking the word-play , and making clear the distinctions you are drawing from the formulation of the question . |
| 14 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 15 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |
| 16 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 17 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 18 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 19 | ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked . |
| 20 | It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen . |
| 21 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 22 | Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme . |
| 23 | They will , no doubt , have further struggles when they start a family and more figures are competing in the hierarchy of need . |
| 24 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 25 | and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more ! |
| 26 | IVEL , who manufacture low-fat spreads , are helping Save the Children with a ‘ token ’ scheme . |
| 27 | The power station is run by the MEB.It supplies electricity and steam for heating to Bulmers and otherlocal factories.Bulmers shut down production today , but they hope to restart on Monday.Meanwhile Midlands Electricity officials are helping in the investigation of the explosion : |
| 28 | The project aims to investigate : the extent to which science parks are assisting in the transfer of technical ideas and expertise from academics to commercial application in industry ; the relationship between success of parks and their location ; and , the implications of the division between the research end of British industry located in science parks , and industrial production . |
| 29 | Competitions like this are assisting in the development of equipment and the interaction between teams in the arena and afterwards is absolutely superb . |
| 30 | Bello Bouba said that he was returning to join his " fellow countrymen who are struggling for the institution of a real democracy " . |