Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’ |
| 2 | The purity and quality of Pryseg , which was the first brand to gain natural mineral water status in Wales in 1986 , is helping to capture a major share of the 1990's market . |
| 3 | THE blood-sucking ability of the leech is helping to develop a new family of drugs to treat heart disease . |
| 4 | Now Britain is helping to build a modern fleet for the junta |
| 5 | The UK remained in deficit with all parts of the world outside the EC , except the oil exporting countries , where the massive Al Yamamah defence contract with Saudi Arabia is helping to maintain a positive balance . |
| 6 | At Shortwood Farm at Pencombe in Herefordshire , Duchess the Shire horse is helping to revive an ancient tradition . |
| 7 | This control is adjusted to produce a satisfactory value of gain coupled with a sufficiently ‘ sharp ’ degree of selectivity in order to eliminate strong a.m. signals which may be present on adjacent frequencies . |
| 8 | Besides that , it 's helping to maintain a high profile for the competition circuit and we depend on that for the continued success of our Crag-U-Like operations . ’ |
| 9 | Each area office is recognized to possess a special character which emanates from the personality and style of the area officer who presides over it . |
| 10 | The project is intended to represent a modest prototype for the evaluation of GIS-type map displays . |
| 11 | It is intended to interview a representative sample of 3,000 married women under the age of 60 together with a sample of 500 of their husbands . |
| 12 | 4 is intended to give a general picture of provision it is not exhaustive ; some of the variants and sub-divisions of subject headings ( such as types of history or engineering ) have been conflated in order to reduce the overall length of the list . |
| 13 | This is intended to give a clear idea of what the module is about . |
| 14 | THE ROBERT Godon University has recently established an alumni office , which is intended to form a permanent and active link , between the university and its former students . |
| 15 | Certain things are excluded from registration such as a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration dictated solely by the function the article has to perform , or which depend upon the appearance of another article of which it is intended to form an integral part . |
| 16 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 17 | This is intended to publish a wide range of action research and related studies , with the aim of making their outcomes widely available and exemplifying the variety of possible styles of reporting ( ie not just another narrow , jargon-laden talking shop for academics ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Peace ’ and ‘ peaceful ’ are not , however , intended as universalistic analytic terms , but their usage is intended to mark a fundamental shift in theoretical focus . |
| 19 | It is intended to construct a new spatial classification of retail activity in the conurbation , to consider changes in the structure of retail employment in relation to local labour supply , and to assess the differential impact of change on various groups of consumers . |
| 20 | Level 1 is intended to encompass a wide range of attainment , from those pupils who have barely begun to learn , to those who are very close to achieving level 2 . |
| 21 | The new fund is intended to establish a regional network of protected areas in seven countries . |
| 22 | In doing so it is intended to make a significant contribution to information for policymakers . |
| 23 | In describing the work in this text , however , it is intended to avoid a formal mathematical treatment . |
| 24 | In parts of England people still worship Pomona , the Roman goddess of fruit trees , through the custom of wassailing which is intended to encourage a good crop of apples . |
| 25 | The technology , which is intended to enable users tp link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 26 | The technology , which is supposed to let users link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 27 | The Collection is intended to become a complete library of gardening knowledge . |
| 28 | It is intended to become an actual OSF Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) product , probably one of the first , as that technology becomes available , according to Unix systems management director Roy Shiderly . |
| 29 | It is intended to provide a regular weekly income if you do not have enough money to live on . |
| 30 | This leaflet is intended to provide a concise overview of the 1992 process , focusing on what it might mean for local authorities . |