Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 2 | Great crises do occur in the midst of structural change and , in fact , are part of the process helping to carry those changes through . |
| 3 | Many African debtors are also struggling to implement economic-reform programmes . |
| 4 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic students struggling to find industrial placements have set up their own hotline . |
| 5 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 6 | In another ear the sole consultant ophthalmologist has resigned from the district general hospital and bought a caravan which he is using to provide private consultations at fundholding practices . |
| 7 | He 'll be helping to escourt sixteen tons of glass to the school and will also carry out repairs . |
| 8 | The students go out and spend part of each week all through the school year in the schools , and the teachers in those schools , whether they are science teachers or history teachers or English teachers , collaborate with us in helping to train those students . |
| 9 | It is clear that SCOTVEC has a central role in helping to meet these needs . |
| 10 | The NRA promotes the recreational use of rivers and in many area play an active role in helping to secure amicable agreements over access . |
| 11 | Customers will get refunds and other firms are helping to find alternative trips . |
| 12 | Leyhill is proud of its record in helping to rehabilitate former criminals … and thanks to a spell of gardening , many inmates can look forward to a brighter future … their light fingers turned into green fingers … |
| 13 | He spearheaded Swindon 's revival as a boom town in the late eightees , helping to attract major firms like car makers Honda and one of Europe 's leading information distribution firms Galileo . |
| 14 | Paine was across there now , it was said , helping to write new laws . |
| 15 | Or helping to write some plays . |
| 16 | For mothers struggling to meet these responsibilities , such gifts can help to protect the living standards of their children ( Craig and Glendinning , 1990a ; Ritchie , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | Helping to provide these interfaces — so-called middleware — will be crucial and signals the need for software companies to become increasingly service orientated . |
| 18 | This is by no means an easy task when so many types of movement classes and fitness pursuits are competing to attract potential members . |
| 19 | The warriors pursued Perry to within four miles of Mount Idaho , before returning to gather sixty-three rifles from the battleground . |
| 20 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 21 | This creates the dilemma illustrated in the project discussed above , of appearing to meet local needs when in fact such actions do little about the real causes of social problems and may indeed aggravate them by uprooting local leaders . |
| 22 | The mill-house , with its white-painted cast iron footbridge over the river below the weir , forms a seductive spot for photographers , painters , picnickers and what used to be called courting couples , but are now gender-opposite persons endeavouring to establish meaningful relationships by pair-bonding and role-playing . |
| 23 | The psychologists attempted to polarise various issues such as massed versus spaced learning , whole versus part learning and transfer of training which had some face validity in appearing to identify general principles , but in practice it always seemed that the generalities vanished into the enormous variety of specific issues . |
| 24 | It is going to take both time and understanding to help these countries get on their feet once more with a democratic system . |
| 25 | He dashes about from place to place and function to function endeavouring to record all aspects of the local scene , trivial as well as tragic . |
| 26 | When the notion of Competences was first put to business , the main objection was not just how do you really assess ‘ honesty and relationships ’ but what about the knowledge and understanding to put such capabilities into practice . |
| 27 | I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preaching ; their doctrines are most repulsive , and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors , in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and to do away with all distinctions , as it is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth . |
| 28 | Another firm , Tiger Rail , is bidding to run three trains a week to carry china clay from Cornwall to Scotland . |
| 29 | The English text achieves a higher level of informality by appearing to consider various angles of the problem in a relaxed , casual way , as if the writer is simply taking up issues as they occur to him/her . |
| 30 | Clearly the President 's enemies are itching to believe unsubstantiated stories that could hurt him . |