Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will avoid duplication , and if you are using a store to organise your list do remember to inform them so they can add it to their list as having been bought . |
| 2 | Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands are encouraging a switch to crop rotation , integrated pest management , or steam-based soil sterilization . |
| 3 | Indigenous peoples from northern Russia are demanding a halt to work on exploiting the Udokan copper deposit until the Russian parliament has passed legislation on the economic status of the region and the rights of indigenous people . |
| 4 | Now I am not , of course , challenging the excellence that God requires from us all but I am challenging a tendency to overthrow the radical message of incarnation . |
| 5 | The Disablement Income Group , the Disability Alliance and the National Association of Carers are co-ordinating a campaign to make ICA a universal benefit additional to any other benefit ( like Attendance Allowance or Mobility Allowance ) . |
| 6 | Czechoslovakian ecologists are launching a campaign to prevent large areas of national park land in Slovakia 's Tatra mountains from being developed by an American company as a sports and tourism complex . |
| 7 | What is really going on is they are rigging a system to hide that kind of it 's clearly anonymous to marry a woman who 's your grandmother . |
| 8 | Students have been staging a sit-in to protest about overcrowding at a polytechnic . |
| 9 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 10 | In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women . |
| 11 | They 're using a machine to do something . |
| 12 | If you 're seeking a way to express frustrated emotion and thwarted love , then you need to know that children are individuals who come with their own rights and demands . |
| 13 | One group of villagers are so delighted they 're holding a celebration to mark the best harvest in years . |
| 14 | we 're having a salad to make . |
| 15 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 16 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 17 | So they 're organising a seminar to ask for ideas from the public . |
| 18 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 19 | Mungo had the impression that he had been waiting a lifetime to answer that question . |
| 20 | Care workers involved in the case are so concerned at the possibility of the children being returned home , they are considering a move to have this evidence made public . |
| 21 | HUNDREDS of supporters of the Free Radio Association are holding a party to celebrate the 29th birthday of the pop pirate ship Radio Caroline . |
| 22 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 23 | ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer . |
| 24 | Now New Yorkers are getting a chance to do a little suffering for art right here at home . |
| 25 | More directors of trusts are indicating a willingness to draw on these reserves to maintain dividends or meet commitments . |
| 26 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 27 | about this you are wasting your time , er then hopefully you if you are having a problem to come and see me and I can tell you if it is a problem or whether it 's not , it 's not particularly a problem , so you know , come along and see me |
| 28 | Gordon Middleton and Alan Hill are asking a judge to overturn a ruling by magistrates . |
| 29 | I am consulting a solicitor to gain compensation for loss of earnings from the driver 's insurance company . ’ |
| 30 | The US and Mexican governments are examining a proposal to set up an environmental fund to help tackle pollution problems on the border between the two countries . |