Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) . |
| 2 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 3 | As pressure intensified , Mr Hurd contacted UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali , demanding to see the Cambodian representative to the UN . |
| 4 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 5 | He tells the true story of a clergyman , Father Kleinsorge , who was helping to tend the wounded … . |
| 6 | The knowledge that you are personally helping to support the future development of Medau work and the training of our teachers |
| 7 | The paper should be left underneath until eating to support the creased fondant cloth . |
| 8 | For example , they may frequently be given a role in maintaining employment and thus helping to preserve the political accommodations between classes upon which a successful response to the crisis depends ; this may conflict with their central role in the restructuring of industries in crisis . |
| 9 | Moreover the reparations clauses of the Treaty , far from helping to restore the economic life of Europe , merely complicated the enormous problems of putting the world economy back together again . |
| 10 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 11 | This result might seem puzzling given the conventional characterisation of most Friends in the eighteenth century as quietist ‘ following their habit of attending religiously to their internal impressions ’ . |
| 12 | Erm enough enough of slagging slagging the little shit I think |
| 13 | With all these developments Macmillan was quite unconcerned , preferring to enjoy the quiet country life he was used to . |
| 14 | Is your fiancé 's brother making your life difficult or are you struggling to find the perfect bridesmaid 's present ? |
| 15 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 16 | These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries . |
| 17 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 18 | A little boy stretched up , struggling to work the plunger . |
| 19 | Planting is chosen for ease of maintenance and it is particularly useful to use the two trees , birch and sorbus provide vertical emphasis , helping to counteract the steep slope . |
| 20 | The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability . |
| 21 | The modern version we are using has the same hole , and our wood-burning stove has a pipe that goes through it , while the rest of it is closed with a cowl that is a bitch to fix . |
| 22 | Freddy Vasquez of the opposition party , the Gibraltar Social Democrats , is demanding to know the exact cost and who will pay . |
| 23 | Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food . |
| 24 | Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy . |
| 25 | They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person . |
| 26 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 27 | Robinson contributed by helping to found the Central Statistical Office in 1941 . |
| 28 | He trained as an architect and town planner before helping to found the Panhellenic Socialist Resistance , the forerunner of PASOK , while in exile from the Colonels ' dictatorship from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 29 | Along with with Robin Harris , past director of Conservative research department , who is joining the Downing Street policy unit , John O'Sullivan , editor of the US National Review and Sir Ronald Millar , playwright , Mr Patten has been helping to write the Prime Minister 's speech for today 's keynote address . |
| 30 | The opening of this section of route was delayed until September , because the Board of Trade insisted upon street widening to accommodate the wider Company cars . |