Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this general context , handheld media are increasingly offering the same utilities which are helping to build the electronic information market globally , together with portability , an ingredient new to electronic media but for long one of the most cherished advantages of the printed word . |
| 4 | Does that mean that we are helping to subsidise the German coal industry while shutting pits in this country and throwing people out of work ? |
| 5 | Many organizations are struggling to harness the creative energies which it releases . |
| 6 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 7 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 8 | The comparison stretches to the fact that both Lyon and Edinburgh are bidding to host the European Central Bank . |
| 9 | THREE places are bidding to host the National Mod in 1996 . |
| 10 | THE CANDIDATES BARELY MENTIONED HUMAN RIGHTS IN THEIR ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ; BUT THREE ISSUES ARE RETURNING TO HAUNT THE INCOMING GOVERNMENT |
| 11 | Their statement read : ‘ We are saddened by the actions of a small vocal minority within the community who are endeavouring to impede the economic development of the area … . |
| 12 | By contrast , the Scottish Tories had been lobbying to keep the maximum personal element . |
| 13 | Since we last wrote , we have been lobbying to achieve the same relaxation for voluntary drivers from sport as is proposed to be granted to those driving in a voluntary capacity for charities . |
| 14 | While the underclass in this country is held firmly in place by unemployment , a number of other trends , such as tax and benefit disincentives , and structural changes in the job market , are operating to support the downward kick unemployment has on the living standards of this group . |
| 15 | In fact the power that is called God is beyond definition ; it is , as is stated of Brahman , ‘ neti , neti , — not this , not this ’ , and in our attempts to define it we are seeking to describe the indescribable . |
| 16 | ‘ The administrators are seeking to use the statutory procedure to get information which the company , if solvent , would not have been able to obtain before deciding whether or not to pursue the proceedings against B.C.C.I. |
| 17 | He says : ‘ The flat hand-out is appropriate if you are seeking to mobilise the maximum numbers to vote . ’ |
| 18 | A small number of European and UK distributors and Value Added Resellers ( who offer product support and technical back-up ) are seeking to help the smaller American companies break into the UK market . |
| 19 | Officially these scientists are working on long-range weather predictions ; in fact , though , they are seeking to prove the cosmic-ice theory once and for all . |
| 20 | Saver Plus — the ideal combination if you are looking to make the most of your surplus cash but may need to call on it at a moment 's notice . |
| 21 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 22 | In schools , teachers are refusing to instil the official line that whaling continues for " scientific " purposes only . |
| 23 | The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations . |
| 24 | So most teachers are tending to ignore the national curriculum , and the tests and everything else , and teach what they 've always taught . |
| 25 | A softly woven dress would also look attractive with collar , cuffs or edging in blending simple plain machine knitting with the added bonus that these plain edgings are serving to lock the soft edges in place . |
| 26 | Now is the right time for something even bigger to happen , and we 're looking to broaden the whole idea of workwear into a promotion of quality , utility clothing : the slogan at PIL is going to be Function as Fashion . ’ |
| 27 | Now they 're going to leave the three of us here , to die on this island . ’ |
| 28 | To do that you 're going to need the good will of the workers within the centre , the local community , the workers within Moat and the different factions within Moat and the one thing that the Tory line did was to unite all those factions against what the county council wanted . |
| 29 | So you 're going to see the orthopaedic people there care of casualty , B B C one . |
| 30 | We 're going to put the whole exhibition for the day there , so they can see the kinds of ways that women have got jobs and the kinds of training that they 've had to get to get them . |