Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEAFOOD fans are queueing to buy the Eldorado prawn . |
| 2 | The modern version we are using has the same hole , and our wood-burning stove has a pipe that goes through it , while the rest of it is closed with a cowl that is a bitch to fix . |
| 3 | ‘ Mary says you have been helping to feed the sheep . ’ |
| 4 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 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 | Along with with Robin Harris , past director of Conservative research department , who is joining the Downing Street policy unit , John O'Sullivan , editor of the US National Review and Sir Ronald Millar , playwright , Mr Patten has been helping to write the Prime Minister 's speech for today 's keynote address . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Members of the Action Group are helping redress the balance with local initiatives to improve the area . |
| 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 | So why not join us , knowing that you are helping conserve the British countryside for yourself and generations to come ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | In this general context , handheld media are increasingly offering the same utilities which are helping to build the electronic information market globally , together with portability , an ingredient new to electronic media but for long one of the most cherished advantages of the printed word . |
| 20 | Such are the changes infiltrating society that now long-serving criminals are helping supply the soundtrack to the big throwdown . |
| 21 | Does that mean that we are helping to subsidise the German coal industry while shutting pits in this country and throwing people out of work ? |
| 22 | Terrible strain is put on three-day eventers if they are struggling to do the times cross country , and stress can mean injury . |
| 23 | contribution rule remains , along with all the damage that it does — especially to local authorities that are struggling to collect the poll tax . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Many organizations are struggling to harness the creative energies which it releases . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We are struggling to pay the loan and the mortgage . |
| 28 | NEW ZEALAND are struggling to avoid the follow-on in the second Test against Sri Lanka after collapsing to 100-7 in Colombo yesterday . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |