Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEAFOOD fans are queueing to buy the Eldorado prawn . |
| 2 | The computer we are using has a precision of six decimal figures . |
| 3 | ‘ Mary says you have been helping to feed the sheep . ’ |
| 4 | Aye , coupled to a scum gangster , as though there was no difference between Yakobi and some undercity vermin — whereas Yakobi had been helping hold the line against such vicious filth , on behalf , yes ultimately on behalf , of those selfsame upper-spire revellers ! |
| 5 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 6 | This column argues the South African officials have been helping to professionalise the game by creating elite city clubs which cream off the best resources at the expense of the poorer , less fashionable sides . |
| 7 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 8 | Cheaply produced coal from Colombia is one of the main sources of imports which are helping to undermine the competitiveness of domestically produced coal in Britain . |
| 9 | Members of the Action Group are helping redress the balance with local initiatives to improve the area . |
| 10 | TOP guitarists are helping to put a Merseyside club on the map . |
| 11 | The Government are helping to support the idea that coal is a pollutant but that nuclear power is green friendly and that gas is green friendly . |
| 12 | Dr van der Merwe 's bones or , rather , those of the Crow Indians of the Ohio valley , are helping to trace the spread of maize across the Americas and establish how , by the time that the conquistadores arrived , it was powering not only the imperial civilisations of Mexico , but the modest villages of what was shortly to become New England . |
| 13 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 14 | You 've a job , you are helping to keep the fire at check , you are helping to extinguish the fire , it 's a good necessary job . |
| 15 | So both in your letter to me and your letter to Mr Deva MP , you are helping to keep the voice of public opinion heard , and I thank you for both . |
| 16 | Weak demand for windows for homes is being offset elsewhere and the West Midlands property developments and disposals are helping to keep the leap in interest charges within bounds . |
| 17 | You 've a job , you are helping to keep the fire at check , you are helping to extinguish the fire , it 's a good necessary job . |
| 18 | Scissors in the shape of dolphins are helping to boost the funds of International Dolphin Watch , the leading organisation for the study and conservation of these fun loving and intelligent mammals . |
| 19 | Such are the changes infiltrating society that now long-serving criminals are helping supply the soundtrack to the big throwdown . |
| 20 | Terrible strain is put on three-day eventers if they are struggling to do the times cross country , and stress can mean injury . |
| 21 | contribution rule remains , along with all the damage that it does — especially to local authorities that are struggling to collect the poll tax . |
| 22 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 23 | But if some Olympic competitors are struggling to find the cash , their problems pale in comparison with the difficulties facing disabled athletes hoping to go to Spain for THEIR games . |
| 24 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 25 | We are struggling to pay the loan and the mortgage . |
| 26 | NEW ZEALAND are struggling to avoid the follow-on in the second Test against Sri Lanka after collapsing to 100-7 in Colombo yesterday . |
| 27 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 28 | For any Singer knitters out there who find they are struggling to understand the machine — the only advice I can give is to persevere and experiment . |
| 29 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 30 | The problem is that UK households , like US ones , are struggling to repay the debts they took on in the boom years of the 1980s , he explained . |