Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRUDHOE BAY — Satellites are helping scientists track objects flying over Alaska 's Arctic coast , but they are n't Russian aircraft or UFOs ; they 're sea ducks called Spectacled Eiders . |
| 2 | For more details of how we are helping companies meet the challenge of the 1990's , and for a free copy of the independent Henley Centre Report on Facilities Management , call us free on or return the coupon . |
| 3 | ‘ The large number of non-farming visitors to the show gives an opportunity to show how research scientists are helping farmers protect the environment and avoid pollution as well as producing food as efficiently and economically as possible , ’ said WBPS spokeswoman Pat Twigg . |
| 4 | DARLINGTON council has drawn up a list of businesses which are helping people stop smoking . |
| 5 | And by offering management skills training courses to heads and deputy heads of schools , we 're helping schools become more adept at self management . |
| 6 | It 's certainly true , I do n't think that we 're letting development rip . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I thought so , but what I ca n't understand is why you 're letting Dana get away with it . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're making Dad look a fool . |
| 10 | Ken added : ‘ Marty 's angle was not to be afraid of anti-feeling , because we 're making people laugh and in laughter we 're making a kind of sanity . |
| 11 | Even though I can see both applications on the screen at the same time I am having problems copy typing the formulas . |
| 12 | But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder . |
| 13 | ‘ I am letting things run down , ’ I said . |
| 14 | ‘ Investors who are making money tend not to complain , no matter how fed up they are with their advisers , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt . |
| 16 | Anne McIntosh , MEP for north east Essex , has been campaigning against UK rates of excise duty which , she says , are making people buy drink on the Continent rather than at British shops . |
| 17 | Oh , to protect market share , which means that you think if you stopped advertising less people would buy it , therefore your ads are making people buy it — thank you and good night . |