Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INMATES at Penninghame Open Prison near Newton Stewart , Wigtownshire , have been praised for helping to combat under-age drinking in the area . |
| 2 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 3 | It 's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned , as the press tries to make out , but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The backup server that is providing at release ten has or employs device striping to provide linear scaleability of the backup to multiple da tape and disk devices . |
| 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 NRA promotes the recreational use of rivers and in many area play an active role in helping to secure amicable agreements over access . |
| 9 | As in the Commons , the scrutiny is provided by a relatively small number of peers , lacking in elective legitimacy , but justifying their Parliamentary role by bringing to bear special knowledge of criminal policy or the administration of justice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many Area Board chairmen were also dilatory in providing the researchers with information , and opposed the expenditure of resources on this research ( preferring to concentrate commercial research on appliance development ) . |
| 12 | The warriors pursued Perry to within four miles of Mount Idaho , before returning to gather sixty-three rifles from the battleground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | NHL is endeavouring to arrange alternative cover for its borrowers . |
| 15 | A couple of last year 's sillier pieces of driving provide metaphorical weight to the rumour that at least one of our 26 heroes has a problem prematurely overheating and making an embarrassing mess . |
| 16 | The government will announce in two to three months a short list of eight foreign companies and Indian partners from 30 candidates bidding to provide cellular service in Bombay , Delhi , Calcutta and Madras . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If we are to do better in 1996 , we must avoid the trap of appearing to set one group against the other . |
| 19 | Sort of with a sort of I 'm dying to stick this knife in your back ! |
| 20 | ‘ You know , meeting all the crowd , cracking open another bottle of sparkling Saumur . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A direct Stoddard Templeton telephone number is now used , keeping separate those calls from Sekers ' own customers . |
| 24 | We are endeavouring to give maximum flexibility to how clauses 1 to 14 are considered . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On Feb. 7 a treaty on co-operation was signed , providing for regular high-level consultations , and pledging to reduce nuclear weapons to levels of minimum security . |
| 27 | In particular it is revealing to consider two principles in deterrence theory which are considered to inhibit ‘ conventional ’ crime — these are ‘ the certainty of being caught ’ and ‘ the severity of the punishment ’ . |
| 28 | Signs are that it fell into disuse during the period after the Romans had left and legendary Celtic leaders , such as Arthur , were endeavouring to maintain civilised standards against waves of barbarian invaders . |
| 29 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 30 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |