Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is helping members of President Bush 's own staff who are suing to avoid taking the test . |
| 2 | A team in Bristol is helping women with bulimia overcome their binge-eating and purging . |
| 3 | Brighton , as someone memorably said , looks like a town that is helping police with their inquiries . |
| 4 | A man is helping police with their enquiries.SPEEDWAY : Leigh Adams , the Australian champion , spearheads his country 's Test challenge against England at Oxford on Friday , writes Barry Alcock . |
| 5 | A 27-year-old man is helping police with their inquiries . |
| 6 | But first , the renowned business troubleshooter Sir John Harvey-Jones is helping traders in his home town to beat the recession . |
| 7 | A TEENAGER is helping detectives with their inquiries into a vicious sex attack in Hartlepool . |
| 8 | But this is catching names on the tape ! |
| 9 | The interdisciplinary team is using approaches from anthropology , sociology , social psychology and cognitive science to understand the processes by which members of the lay public and others directly involved with some issue , such as the Chernobyl fallout , combine scientific information from ‘ official ’ sources with interpretations of their own experience into forms meaningful and useful to themselves in their own practical situations . |
| 10 | Intel Corp 's request for a US International Trade Commission investigation of Taiwanese manufacturer Twinhead International Corp ( CI No 2,168 ) seems to plunge into a very grey area : the company is claiming that the way the processor interacts with support components to implement memory management for paging software is patented , and that manufacturers using clones of iAPX-86 family chips — Twinhead is using chips from Cyrix Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc — are required to pay Intel a royalty of 1% of the wholesale price of their machines for use of the patented technique . |
| 11 | Mr Millar is forecasting dividends for the year to next August of 3.35p net per share , a jump of 22 per cent . |
| 12 | ‘ Nicolo is bringing guests for dinner . |
| 13 | Code-named ’ Operation Casino ’ it 's targeting drivers in rural areas . |
| 14 | Already one is seeing cases with Β-lactamase-producing gonococci in London which have been acquired in Ghana , and there is little hope of preventing their eventual spread throughout the community if no action is being taken in the source country . |
| 15 | If you are king of a country in which six out of every ten people are Palestinians , and where Islamic fundamentalism is growing , you do not last long by siding with America against the man who is firing missiles into Tel Aviv . |
| 16 | This is a particularly useful option if your opponent is firing arrows at you . |
| 17 | The first calls to police cars indicate that a gunman has taken twenty women hostages and is firing shots in the air . |
| 18 | To compensate hunters , many of them peasants and Indians , for loss of income from the illegal trade , the government is allowing exports of a few species not in danger of extinction , such as the Teyu Guazu iguana , whose skin is used for handbags and belts . |
| 19 | For example , one of the things I 've been doing today is submitting titles for Waterstones ’ summer reading promotion ; they are sponsoring a 32 page supplement in Elle , and are doing a run-on . |
| 20 | There 's extenuating circumstances like that |
| 21 | In contrast , those developers whose prime objective is building houses at maximum profit and with minimum care for the environment , may experience difficulty . |
| 22 | ‘ Now our inner cities must be in the vanguard of the new alternative that Labour is building philosophies of empowering people , of realising potential rather than wasting it and of celebrating each life . |
| 23 | ‘ Now our inner cities must be in the vanguard of the new alternative that Labour is building philosophies of empowering people , of realising potential rather than wasting it and of celebrating each life . |
| 24 | The UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) , which is also backing the forestry project , is demanding checkpoints on the road and improved security to protect the reserve . |
| 25 | IBM , the US computer giant , is demanding royalties from South Korean and Taiwanese clonemakers . |
| 26 | There 's a woman sitting on the bench in front of me and she 's eating chips from a bag . |
| 27 | While many people are aware that meat pies are extremely high in fat — around half the calories in some pork pies come from fat — few realise that modern chicken-rearing is producing birds with a higher fat content . |
| 28 | Peter Field at the Post Office is producing 1″ of the three films you have on VHS from him . |
| 29 | The Law Society Council will discuss the Board 's franchising proposals at its April 22 meeting . |
| 30 | She has held visiting teaching appointments at several universities , served as a research associate for Early Christian art at the Institute of Fine Arts , and is assisting curators at the Pierpont Morgan Library in preparing an exhibition of Armenian manuscripts . |