Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israel is attempting to recreate part of the Hula wetlands , drained in the 1950s to create arable land for farming . |
| 2 | This is going to cause chaos in the studios and even more chaos in the home as viewers desperately hunt for shows they saw last week and which have mysteriously disappeared . |
| 3 | I have a few questions of my own erm in , in doing it and erm was er when you say that , that males had males parental investment erm I was wondering how they , how can a male when the male decides to desert how can they be certain if the female is going to take care of the offspring , because I was wondering if erm if probability like the based by their genes it does n't matter if one female does n't take care of the offspring because they produce more offspring |
| 4 | He will not actually begin treatment of any sort until he is convinced that you are completely comfortable , both with the concept as a whole and with what is going to take place during the particular session . |
| 5 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 6 | Garvey , of Sandwell Avenue , Middlesbrough , is expecting to stand trial at the Crown Court for the alleged offence but magistrates decided neither case could go ahead after Garvey 's solicitor Jimmy Watson failed to appear . |
| 7 | A 19-day strike by Indian Airlines pilots is starting to cause chaos on the sub-continent with no signs of management acceding to a list of 14 demands . |
| 8 | Despite the war Christian Aid is managing to bring food across the border to people in their villages . |
| 9 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what steps he is taking to improve sponsorship of the arts . |
| 10 | The Federation Against Software ( FAST ) is preparing to take action over the increasing amount of illegally copied software being sold at car boot sales . |
| 11 | That is why his canonisation of the equally versatile Jeff Koons — ‘ a person who is trying to lead art into the twenty-first century ’ — carries such conviction . |
| 12 | Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister , Ahmad Shah Masood . |
| 13 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 14 | The unions suspect that Mr MacGregor is trying to introduce appraisal on the cheap . |
| 15 | ‘ By resigning today he is trying to avoid responsibility for the political crisis , ’ said Mr Jiri Dienstbier , Forum spokesman . |
| 16 | The company is not turning away existing customers ; it is trying to reassess business on the basis of customer needs rather than product lines . |
| 17 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 18 | Mr Field is hoping to meet President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Prime Minister John Major to discuss the issue . |
| 19 | To halt the decline the Hereford Herd Book Society is planning to label beef from the breed in butchers shops.It says Hereford beef tastes better than meat from Continental breeds.And it 's cheaper to produce , because Herefords are fattened on grass rather than on expensive cereals . |