Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 2 | New rules for athletes in Portugal are being drawn up and Mota is helping with the project . |
| 3 | IBM Corp and Sequent Computer Systems Inc are possibly on it too — Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is helping with the chip so may also be in the line up . |
| 4 | IBM Corp and Sequent Computer Systems Inc are possibly on it too — Siemens AG is is helping with the chip so Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG so may also be in the line-up . |
| 5 | And , most important of all , you will have the satisfaction of knowing that their membership — like yours — is helping save the world 's wildlife . |
| 6 | Student Keith Marsh is particularly interested in science and has organised a trip for pupils to use the college laboratories while Clare Phillips is helping in the primary school library . |
| 7 | It is a way the Holy Spirit is using across the nation and across the denominations . |
| 8 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 9 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 10 | MAMAS AND THE PAPAS vocalist John Phillips is recovering at the University Of California , Los Angeles Medical Centre from a recent liver transplant . |
| 11 | What better explanation for Britain 's post-devaluation reduction in interest rates and Norman Lamont 's singing in the bath ? |
| 12 | One pupil , sitting in the coveted position alongside the radiator , is gazing through the window and into the distance . |
| 13 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 14 | Both are there but it has no effect on plane polarised light , for instance , like , as if one of them is trying to rotate it to the left by so many degrees and the other one is rotating to the right by the said the amount . |
| 15 | Gentleman is touching on the other matter about the STUCC and its remit — a matter that was mentioned by the Hon. |
| 16 | It is touching on the social sciences in the sense that Woodrow Wilson was an important political figure , and there is an historical dimension . |
| 17 | At this point Giddens is touching on the deep-lying emotional instincts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 18 | There 's been a bad accident and he 's helping with the injured . |
| 19 | Mr Davies 's canvassing over the party conference period has found 70 MPs solidly backing Mr Foster — including most of the hard-left Campaign Group . |
| 20 | A third priority raised is contracting with the independent sector . |
| 21 | ‘ Painting is drawing at the same time , ’ Mauve had told him . |
| 22 | Who is reaching who is rea John is reacting to the heretics of his day , the gnostics . |
| 23 | Down in the heart of the coke the limited supply of air is reacting with the carbon to form carbon monoxide . |
| 24 | By contrast the Sergeant Major has already finished , and is jogging on the spot with an air of contempt for the rest of us mere mortals . |
| 25 | While the universe is mulling over the implications of this , Mr Adam turns up . |
| 26 | Finally , the false vocal cord theory is supported by the evidence of the simple action of placing your fingers gently on the throat of a purring cat — there is no doubt , then , that the purring sound is stemming from the region of the voice-box , and it is hard to see why any alternative theory should have been put forward . |
| 27 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 28 | Republic manager Jack Charlton is toying with the idea of using Kelly alongside Niall Quinn in attack . |
| 29 | With Philip Gray ruled out through injury , manager Billy Bingham is toying with the idea of pushing Hughes up front alongside Iain Dowie — in a ‘ little and large ’ partnership . |
| 30 | McHale is toying with the idea of a complete reshuffle as the Seasiders bid to climb closer to the Fourth Division play-off zone . |