Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer we are using has a precision of six decimal figures . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | TOP guitarists are helping to put a Merseyside club on the map . |
| 4 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ministers were supported by almost 52,000 local or lay preachers : of these totals the four leading denominations we have been surveying had a total of 6,409 ministers and 44,142 lay preachers in England . |
| 8 | LABOUR councillors are bidding to overturn a decision which stalled reorganisation of Liverpool 's special schools . |
| 9 | I am dying to make a sweater inspired by a new music centre in our house . |
| 10 | Like my hon. Friend , I pay tribute to the efforts of Lord Carrington and others within the Community who have been endeavouring to obtain a ceasefire , and to the efforts made by Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 11 | Since 1977 Brown had been looking to buy a business in Scotland , where his family , roots and contacts are . |
| 12 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 13 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 14 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 15 | I am looking to develop a television programme about women and their attitude and relationship with cars . |
| 16 | I am writing to ask a question about my local tennis club . |
| 17 | If you are seeking to create a specialism from within the firm it is necessary for the specialist to understand , have a feel for and , most particularly , want to do personal injury work . |
| 18 | The efforts being made now to change these attitudes are seeking to reverse a trend which persisted for most of this century endorsed by official government attitudes to the care of the handicapped . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , you are seeking to influence a group of people in a more formal meeting , then consciously working through each stage in the sequence is more appropriate . |
| 20 | The French , who have driven the merger and competition policy hard during their presidency , are seeking to maintain a measure of reciprocity . |
| 21 | Wales are seeking to end a run of 11 successive defeats against France . |
| 22 | THE International Amateur Athletic Federation ( IAAF ) are seeking to overturn a US court decision which awarded 400 metres world record holder Butch Reynolds about £18 million in damages . |
| 23 | MILBURNGATE COUNTY LEAGUE KIMBLESWORTH are looking to complete a hat trick of wins when they take on Leadgate today . |
| 24 | ‘ Nick Serota and I are lobbying to get a curator for the collection , ’ Mr Wheatley tells me . |
| 25 | Opposition councillors , however , are refusing to take a seat on the council 's restructuring working party . |
| 26 | French club Cannes are refusing to obey a Football Federation order to replay their Cup match with Montpellier . |
| 27 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 28 | The fears are very generally felt , and are tending to produce a world of listless gloom . |
| 29 | It is this rise in the average level of prices above the level people are expecting , P , which stimulates the rise in output : on the typical island suppliers are tending to find a price higher than they guess the average price level to be and are responding by increasing their output and , since this is happening typically and not merely on one island , aggregate output is stimulated . |
| 30 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |