Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun pl] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , if I have achieved the aim of helping teachers understand their predicament , I hope that they may feel more purposeful , both individually and collectively , and thereby become a more powerful source of ideas and projects for the improvement of schooling , which are grounded simultaneously in a clear sense of educational values and an equally clear-sighted , hard-headed sense of what is possible and appropriate . |
| 2 | Central to these were ways of helping teachers become more effective classroom managers — in both initial and in-service training . |
| 3 | Knowles ( 1978 ) , with reference to adults , claims that there are four main assumptions which differentiate andragogy — the art and science of helping adults learn — from pedagogy in the context of school education . |
| 4 | IT offers the tutor more effective methods than before of helping learners explore concepts and carry out investigations , and of organising the department . |
| 5 | All these particular strategies or skills have the common goal of helping clients feel more in control of both their symptoms of stress , and their life in general . |
| 6 | In the long term , enabling carers to retain contact with the labour market , through arrangements such as job-sharing , flexitime and entitlements to ‘ family leave ’ ( Glendinning , 1992b ) and through the removal of some of the present restrictions on ICA ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 50 ) , represents one of the most effective ways of helping carers avoid poverty . |
| 7 | This series of six graded comprehension books is an excellent way of helping pupils develop reading skills . |
| 8 | Ways of helping patients modify their attitudes are discussed below . |
| 9 | Apart from the personal debt many have incurred to gain qualifications , they also have the prospect of seeing ratings expire and hard-won skills dulled by lack of practice . |
| 10 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 11 | Faced with the problems of letting businessmen make money out of the railway timetable without cancelling the Eastern service as uneconomic , he was the very model of a fifth-century Hellene under a tree in the Agra . |
| 12 | And Estée Lauder recently launched its Perfect Make-up Centre , as a way of letting customers play with products before purchasing . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't dream of letting strangers look after my own grandmother ! ’ she cried indignantly . |
| 14 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 15 | Enthusiasm largely fizzled out when the delay in implementation was announced , and the ad hoc , laissez-faire government approach of letting authorities decide for themselves how fast and how enthusiastically to move on the proposals is exacerbated by a lack of ministerial drive and an absence of central government leadership in the mental health field . |
| 16 | Gerashchenko warned of the dangers of letting enterprises go bankrupt , but government officials said that approving new credit could undermine agreement with the IMF to restrict the budget deficit to 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 17 | The option of letting children stay indoors during breaks could be considered though providing adequate supervision sometimes provides problems . |
| 18 | For women , this again means another medical reason for interference in our fertility and pregnancy , and it also begs questions about risks to the resulting children , and the ethics of having scientists make such profound changes to human beings . |
| 19 | ‘ After years of having gentlemen call us ‘ duck ’ and ‘ darling ’ , surely we can call one of them ‘ cuddly ’ without being offensive . ’ |
| 20 | For pupils , the exercise of highlighting keywords or phrases can be a useful way of having pupils think more carefully about the structure and content of what they are writing . |
| 21 | She chose to ignore him again , paddling on in silence , not knowing if the tension in her shoulders was from the unfamiliar strain of the exercise or from the unfamiliar strain of having eyes probe one 's back with habitual cynicism . |
| 22 | Just before his death in 1966 , Disney was quoted as saying : ‘ I do not believe there are any heights that can not be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true ’ . |
| 23 | There is no question of making nurses pay for their training in those circumstances . |
| 24 | Sometimes parents are very upset and angry , but only very occasionally do they take the extreme course of making girls leave home . |
| 25 | The host raised an interesting topic — ‘ the subject of making women do penance in the church for fornication ’ : Johnson , who does not mention this conversation , uses the word ‘ infamy ’ and relates sexual morality to laws of property . |
| 26 | ‘ My guru has always been Raymond , because he has the skill of making women look beautiful . |
| 27 | There is some common ground between these two approaches to selection of materials for Science teaching , but they do result in radically different programmes : the content based approach is much easier to understand and interpret by the average teacher whereas the process-based approach often strikes much deeper towards the prior aim of making learners think more scientifically in a world where this process is increasingly necessary for survival . |
| 28 | In maturity Reagan was undoubtedly politically ambitious , but continued to project an unassuming and non-threatening image and to display the great political gift of making others feel comfortable in his presence . |
| 29 | It does have the side-effect of making things feel stiffer and less responsive , though , and I 'd probably be inclined to leave this item off my own custom shopping list . |
| 30 | It favoured a more voluntaristic conception of human action — a need to see human beings fighting back against an oppressive state , and capable of making things happen . |