Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to serve on commissions and committees , notably helping to draft the New Model Army ordinance ( 1645 ) , chairing the committee on church government ( 1645–6 ) , and agreeing to try the king , although he did not sit on the trial commission ( 1648 ) . |
| 2 | As pressure intensified , Mr Hurd contacted UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali , demanding to see the Cambodian representative to the UN . |
| 3 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 4 | The knowledge that you are personally helping to support the future development of Medau work and the training of our teachers |
| 5 | The paper should be left underneath until eating to support the creased fondant cloth . |
| 6 | Moreover the reparations clauses of the Treaty , far from helping to restore the economic life of Europe , merely complicated the enormous problems of putting the world economy back together again . |
| 7 | With all these developments Macmillan was quite unconcerned , preferring to enjoy the quiet country life he was used to . |
| 8 | Is your fiancé 's brother making your life difficult or are you struggling to find the perfect bridesmaid 's present ? |
| 9 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 10 | Planting is chosen for ease of maintenance and it is particularly useful to use the two trees , birch and sorbus provide vertical emphasis , helping to counteract the steep slope . |
| 11 | The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability . |
| 12 | Freddy Vasquez of the opposition party , the Gibraltar Social Democrats , is demanding to know the exact cost and who will pay . |
| 13 | Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The opening of this section of route was delayed until September , because the Board of Trade insisted upon street widening to accommodate the wider Company cars . |
| 16 | Vyshinsky 's speech was clearly made for the dual purpose of endeavouring to depict the Soviet Union in a more conciliatory light in global terms and to try to gain a voice in the negotiations leading to a treaty . |
| 17 | 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 … . |
| 18 | Abroad , he has already attained a high respect internationally for the manner in which he is endeavouring to help the third world and to play a responsible part in eastern Europe . |
| 19 | Again her eyes were blinking as if her memory were groping to recall the special occasion when her father had a walking stick and she had a parasol . |
| 20 | But by appearing to separate the royal family from most of the rest of the aristocracy , the Queen 's advisers have ensured the Windsors ' survival in a mature democratic society . |
| 21 | THREE places are bidding to host the National Mod in 1996 . |
| 22 | Opponents of rearmament in the Labour Party ( and until 1938 this included the leader Attlee ) argued that , however desirable under a Labour Government , the Party could not support Chamberlain 's rearmament without appearing to endorse the foreign policy that went with it . |
| 23 | There was no flak or fighters and it was an easy trip , but on the return a diversion was made to Lyneham in Wiltshire , the crew and Sugar returning to base the following day , this flight lasting 45 minutes . |
| 24 | However , a private customer can be an expert for this purpose only if : ( 1 ) The firm reasonably believes that he has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that . |
| 25 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
| 26 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 27 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 28 | All cheeses are made in basically the same way , by heating milk to separate the curds from the whey and then cutting the curds before pressing to yield the finished cheese . |
| 29 | It followed that the interference by the English courts did not correspond to a social need sufficiently pressing to outweigh the public interest in freedom of expression . |
| 30 | The plaintiff now seems to have the option of applying to join the new defendant in the existing proceedings as happened in Liff v Peasley [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 623 or starting separate proceedings and relying on Thompson v Brown . |