Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stylistically , Samson is distancing itself from the very audience it should inspire , but by doing so Milton is helping to avoid potential censorship and a silencing altogether . |
| 2 | Detailed three-dimensional structural analysis of church buildings is helping to reveal great complexity in their development . |
| 3 | Ironically , crime is helping provide legitimate employment for 420,000 people battling AGAINST it . |
| 4 | The EEC is struggling to provide alternative video choices to programmes imported from the USA and other western countries . |
| 5 | A joint venture between the American Mobile Satellite Corp and Cruisephone Inc is bidding to provide cheap telephone service to marine users : using American Mobile 's 70-foot satellite , to go up next year , the companies say they will be able to provide service at around half the price of Intelsat . |
| 6 | NHL is endeavouring to arrange alternative cover for its borrowers . |
| 7 | The WWF is seeking to persuade major timber retailers to sign a pledge that all their supplies will come from sustainable sources by 1995 . |
| 8 | He is seeking to promote environmental awareness in a society which , he claims , tends to view such ideas as a western luxury . |
| 9 | It is of course necessary for landowners or prospective purchasers to apply for planning approval in the usual way and such applications may be refused , particularly where the local planning authority is seeking to ensure comprehensive development of an area , of which the site in question forms only a part . |
| 10 | The nature of those policies with their emphases on private sector developments , home ownership and small businesses , suggests that in part at least the Government is seeking to produce electoral change by introducing traditional Conservative supporters to areas where the party has been very weak — as , for example , in many of the residential developments in London 's Docklands . |
| 11 | British Telecommunications Plc is seeking to introduce rolling seven-day round the clock working to improve productivity , the Evening Standard reports , suggesting the plan will meet stiff opposition . |
| 12 | By appealing , Lloyd 's is seeking to achieve equitable treatment for all Names with personal stop-loss recoveries . |
| 13 | If teacher training is about preparing young men and women to work sensitively to children 's needs , and to provide a work force of newly trained teachers who are able to fit into schools effectively , the way in which initial teacher education is developing deserves careful reappraisal . |
| 14 | In a more limited sense , Piaget , like Hegel , is attempting to transform Kantian ontology into a dialectical movement . |
| 15 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 16 | Another important area of research is attempting to uncover female poverty that is hidden within households ( Brannen and Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | I know she is going to need permanent care very soon — everyone 's urging me in that direction . |
| 18 | However , in the context of local authorities these initiatives can also host a competition between different political forces over which of them is going to take immediate priority . |
| 19 | Both have much to do to achieve the aspirations they set themselves : we can not choose between them in terms of which of them is going to take social research forward . |
| 20 | After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK . |
| 21 | MOST of the money raised for disabled Courtaulds employee Chris Lumb , who sadly died before he could benefit from the appeal launched in his name , is going to help blind toddler Leannda Ward . |
| 22 | My friend Willi is going to have severe trouble with this one , he thought . |
| 23 | As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure we should reverse things and do it the other way around as the Americans do but it certainly means we can hit our irons well and , believe me , this course is going to demand exceptional iron play . |
| 25 | He 's going to need intensive physiotherapy . ’ |
| 26 | Well in effect it says that how that it 's now the Party is sanctionalizing absolute egalitarianism , the aim that landlords , K M T officers , everyone 's going to get equal distribution of land . |
| 27 | Brett howls ‘ He 's my insatiable one ’ like a man who 's going to get wicked pleasure from baffling passing milkmen , and it 's all rather lurid and glamorous and hilarious and marginally affected and hugely , wildly effective . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's going to have dark hair , Ma , ’ he said one morning , when Anna was nearly five months old . |
| 29 | Lord Justice er Bingham did say that the relationship between the client , the auditor and the supervisor er is an issue of policy which is more appropriate for decision by parliament than the accounting profession and yet er we 're still subjecting that to control er by the auditing practices board , not a statutory body er er and it 's already told us that it 's going to impose passive requirement on auditors er in this very difficult area . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , hoping to take advantage of the turmoil at Uniplex , UK Sun reseller , Productivity Computer Solutions Ltd , Wakefield , West Yorkshire , is aiming to wean Uniplex office software users on to the rival Aster*x office suite it markets , offering the Applix Inc software for £99 per user to existing Uniplex customers until next May . |