Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a what they call the fighting game , or something to that effect and er the the I remember once I he seeing them having a cock fight . |
| 2 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 3 | About 5,800 of the West Midlands force 's 7,000 drivers have undergone tough advanced driving courses allowing them to drive a car with a siren . |
| 4 | It is difficult to see how the rock platform can entirely dissipate the wave energy , as , if the waves break on it , they must presumably erode it , thus ultimately allowing them to reach the foot of the cliff again . |
| 5 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 6 | On Aug. 18 Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata had attempted to restore confidence by announcing a series of measures aimed at discouraging financial institutions from selling shares until the end of September , and allowing them to postpone the reporting of unrealised losses on share holdings until the end of the financial year , in March 1993 . |
| 7 | It has been designed to lure shareholders by allowing them to keep a stake in LIN , and by offering a private fair market guarantee . |
| 8 | The Deee-Lite canvas has been stretched even tighter , allowing them to twist the dance beats of the last two decades into ever more kooky shapes . |
| 9 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 10 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 11 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 12 | I once complained to Help The Aged about the way they got kids to compete for ‘ badges ’ by encouraging them to collect a target number of sponsors — and thus to pester neighbours . |
| 13 | Old Mrs Gardner , who ran the post office and general store — the only shop in the small Scottish village — knew where most of Mom 's widow 's pension went and suggested I should persuade her to sign a consent form , allowing me to collect the pension . |
| 14 | Alec Reid was wonderful — not only physically , carrying pans of hot water to the stove when necessary , but morally , in allowing me to treat a patient in such an unorthodox fashion . |
| 15 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 16 | Though steep , this disgorged a statutory quota of jugs and runners , allowing me to gain a band of slabs and ribs sandwiched between overhanging walls . |
| 17 | The bottom half hangs down , allowing me to transfer the envelope to inside my coat . |
| 18 | It is always useful for a student of acting to have some practical knowledge of stage management , helping him/her to appreciate the need for efficient technical support for any production . |
| 19 | We shall generally ignore paralinguistic features in spoken language in this book since the data we shall quote from is spoken by co-operative adults who are not exploiting paralinguistic resources against the verbal meanings of their utterances but are , rather , using them to reinforce the meaning . |
| 20 | Another serious objection to this HCF kind of approach is that it fails to prepare pupils for the real world , helping them to appreciate the strength of religious conviction and extend to people of all kinds of religious persuasion , including those dubbed as " fundamentalist " or " extremist " , real empathy and desire to understand their positions . |
| 21 | Helping them recognize the feeling of when they want to go can be an important component for the older pre-school child . |
| 22 | As with cash ratios , banks could hold reserve assets above the statutory minimum , thus helping them to resist a squeeze on reserves ( but not indefinitely ) . |
| 23 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 24 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 25 | Encouraging staff to appreciate the cost of information goes some way towards helping them to quantify the value of information . ’ |
| 26 | A vital part of family welfare involves help with housing by social workers taking a client 's part in helping them get an application for council housing considered or encouraging the formation of community housing associations . |
| 27 | It 's showing we care for them , showing we do n't like what they are doing , helping them solve a problem . |
| 28 | The reward for encouraging all members of staff to be active participants in the decision-making process , so helping them to develop an ownership of the final policy , is that it gives the policy a greater chance of being fully implemented across the curriculum . |
| 29 | By careful planning of schemes of work to integrate programmes of study for speaking and listening , reading and writing , teachers should be able to foster the writing development of their pupils , helping them to develop an ear for language through reading or listening to works in a wide variety of styles written by really fine authors . |
| 30 | Recognizing the fact that they do not seem to be enjoying their children and are missing the fun of childhood can be one way into helping them realize the value of a positive approach . |