Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as helping to save the rainforests , you 'll also be helping the environment close to home . |
| 2 | He had taken part in the search that morning for a while , talked to some of the children from the school , as well as helping to organize the house-to-house . |
| 3 | In India he developed his work among students , and founded the first Christian hostel for students at the University of Poona , as well as helping to build the ashram at Poona . |
| 4 | Their appeal was that they were conceived in Keynesian terms as helping to reduce the extent to which measures to alleviate unemployment , in a largely fully employed economy , created inflation . |
| 5 | Laczko and Phillipson do not suggest following the course taken by the United States and introducing an Age Discrimination in Employment Act , but they are convinced that it is important to press for legislation as well as seeking to improve the attitudes of employers . |
| 6 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 7 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 8 | Mr Newton , choosing his words carefully , said the Government would ‘ certainly ensure the needs and interests of western Grampian and Argyll and Bute are taken fully into account at the same time as seeking to achieve the best outcome for the Highlands and Islands ’ . |
| 9 | Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) attribute most of these difficulties to the problem of courses in BSL which are currently provided in the UK , as tending to strengthen the Englishness of sign use among hearing people . |
| 10 | As well as attempting to limit the work of married women , policies to protect motherhood and enhance the welfare of children extended the direct surveillance of working class women in their homes . |
| 11 | The objective of this investigation can now be re-stated as attempting to determine the following quantities : |
| 12 | The Lord Chancellor is on record as wishing to reverse the cuts in eligibility if an opportunity arose . |
| 13 | The Service Business Unit is what was originally Prime 's in-house maintenance operation for its 50-series minicomputer users , which now touts for third party maintenance and support business as well as continuing to support the dwindling PrimOS base . |
| 14 | With the standard pattern , outbound timing is defined as commencing abeam the holding point , or on reaching the outbound heading , whichever comes later . |
| 15 | The 94,000 houses identified as failing to meet the nine-point BTS criteria compares with a higher estimate from the National Audit Office and an estimate of 101,557 by the Scottish Office . |
| 16 | This means that we deprive ourselves of their expertise and the valuable contributions they can make as well as failing to challenge the implications of statements such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's claim , ‘ Children who need to be able to count and multiply are learning anti-racist mathematics — whatever that may be . ’ |
| 17 | This proposal , rejected by Iran as failing to address the issue of troop withdrawals to internationally recognised boundaries , involved ( i ) direct talks between Iran and Iraq in each other 's capitals under UN auspices ; ( ii ) the unconditional release of all sick and wounded prisoners of war ( PoWs ) ; and ( iii ) the opening of the Iran-Iraq borders to allow the resumption of civilian travel , especially to each other 's Islamic shrines . |
| 18 | George Moore 's depiction of Jesus as having survived the Crucifixion followed on from a contention maintained not only by some of the oldest heresies , but also by the Koran , and thus widely accepted throughout Islam and the Islamic world . |
| 19 | This is the system which they see as having replaced the Roman Empire in Europe . |
| 20 | It was not surprising that Tehran had seized upon the state of the oil market , in the light of the widespread indictment of Riyadh as having provoked the circumstances which left OPEC in disarray in 1985–86 . |
| 21 | Similarly , on June 29th 1970 , the same newspaper reported Portuguese troops as having crossed the border from Angola in order to kidnap the inhabitants of a remote Zambian village . |
| 22 | The result was seen as having strengthened the somewhat precarious position of Prime Minster Toshiki Kaifu within the party . |
| 23 | In both the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly and the listings of the United Nations Secretariat , Nicaragua was included as having accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court through the operation of Article 36 ( 5 ) on its acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court . |
| 24 | ‘ We hope that by the end of the conference we will be able to suggest some acceptable ways forward for the future , as well as having aired the problems . ’ |
| 25 | In 1106 , after the death of his brother Geoffrey , Fulk of Anjou was recorded by Orderic as having received the county of Anjou from King Philip I ; his homage therefore implied feudal subordination . |
| 26 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted on April 5 as having criticized the USA for having " suddenly adopted a different attitude " after initially encouraging rebel factions to overthrow the Saddam Hussein government . |
| 27 | Here also the support of the infinitive is identified with that of the finite verb and so is depicted as having realized the action of struggling with the intention of performing the infinitive event . |
| 28 | Yet in a time of " unprecedented inflation , unprecedented wage demands and an unprecedented number of strikes " ' , most groups can be considered as having limited the fall in real earnings rather than as having maintained , let alone increased them . |
| 29 | The local authorities cited so far can be described as having assimilated the care programme approach , they take it into account and perceive opportunities to be gained , but they do not appear to have changed themselves in any significant way to accommodate it . |
| 30 | A useful starting point is to note that two of the three factors just mentioned as having influenced the law 's development have little application in modern conditions . |