Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 2 | Student Keith Marsh is particularly interested in science and has organised a trip for pupils to use the college laboratories while Clare Phillips is helping in the primary school library . |
| 3 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 4 | At this point Giddens is touching on the deep-lying emotional instincts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 5 | Gentleman is touching on the other matter about the STUCC and its remit — a matter that was mentioned by the Hon. |
| 6 | It is touching on the social sciences in the sense that Woodrow Wilson was an important political figure , and there is an historical dimension . |
| 7 | There 's been a bad accident and he 's helping with the injured . |
| 8 | A third priority raised is contracting with the independent sector . |
| 9 | ‘ Painting is drawing at the same time , ’ Mauve had told him . |
| 10 | The invader is hanging onto the shredded sugar cane to try to prevent his fall . |
| 11 | If exclusion is to be permanent , the LEA 's decision on whether to order the pupil 's reinstatement is binding on the head teacher , although the governors may appeal against an LEA 's refusal to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil , using the same machinery which the LEA is required to establish for such appeals by parents ( and pupils if aged 18 or over ) . |
| 12 | Here is Nicholas Winterton on the same occasion : ‘ Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister confirm that the ‘ no ’ vote in Denmark is binding upon the Danish Government ? ’ |
| 13 | By encouraging transport users to choose road rather than rail , the Scottish Office is capitulating to the powerful car and construction lobbies , and adding to already unbearable development pressures . |
| 14 | In LBC 's case , for example , the LBC Crown FM is going for the upmarket listener , while the medium wave service , London Talkback Radio , is pitching for the tabloid market and the dedicated followers of phone-ins . |
| 15 | During the process of learning the student is working to achieve something ; knowledge of how close her performance is approximating to the desired goal not only has a motivating effect , but if given in sufficient detail provides information which enables her to adjust her learning nearer to the goal . |
| 16 | Prentice Hall is sticking to the tried and tested title by publishing Developing Business Contacts , as well as a welcome new series of ESP reading texts under the banner of Professional Reading Skills . |
| 17 | ‘ Even the moon 's blushing at the horrible way they treat ponies , ’ she snarled . |
| 18 | The study is building on the substantial data collection made by the Personal Social Services Research Unit in 1983 from these sectors . |
| 19 | Attitudes are changing and concern for others is re-emerging from the recent dark decade . |
| 20 | Made jittery by the successes of the Republicans , the CSU is pandering to the far right by questioning the legitimacy of Germany 's post-Second World War frontiers . |
| 21 | The lynch mob is gathering outside the Last Chance Saloon . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , CAJEC secretary Jack Maurice is wading through the 400 plus pages of the ‘ 88 and rising ’ responses he has received — a record for any ethics document — and wondering how he is going to satisfy all the conflicting demands . |
| 23 | Barclays ' support of the National Trust continues to include a secondment of a Donations Administration Manager based at the Trust 's head office and the annual 48-page full-colour booklet Information for Visitors with Disabilities , which the bank is sponsoring for the sixth year running in 1991 . |
| 24 | The National Library of Scotland is collaborating with the British Library and the other legal deposit libraries of the British Isles in a pilot project of shared cataloguing in order to improve the currency and coverage of catalogue records for British books by sharing the responsibility for the creation of those records . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 26 | A large proportion of the advertising in these markets , is , inevitably , in some sense , ‘ reminder ’ advertising — which , again , should not need much in the way of information , since it is preaching to the converted . |
| 27 | One additional hour 's tumbling with the two large clasts reduced the skulls ( Fig. 1.8a-g ) and the mandibles ( Fig. 1.8j-k ) to fragments . |
| 28 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 29 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 30 | Without Nashwan , the chief British-trained challenger in the Arc will be Aliysa , who is competing with the recent winner of the Prix Vermeille , Young Mother , for favouritism . |