Example sentences of "is [verb] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A northern store chain is helping to open branches of a different kind . |
| 2 | I mean ha how can you say that killing fifteen thousand foxes a year is helping to control foxes ? |
| 3 | Muriel Alcock , matron of an old people 's home , is helping to organize classes on a regular basis in several homes in her area . |
| 4 | I was particularly interested to note that in the Whitefield area of Nelson in my hon. Friend 's constituency , largely occupied by ethnic minority households , a neighbourhood watch scheme has recently been set up and is helping to build bridges between the ethnic minority residents and the police . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman , from a London constituency , would pay some attention to the problems that we face in Hemsworth , such as those with RECHAR , which is helping to keep rates in his area down , he would be doing us a service . |
| 6 | That handsome young man is helping to bring visitors back to your holiday complex to make more money for you ! ’ |
| 7 | But the apogee of imaginative anti-Nazism comes in Let George Do It ( 1940 , To Hell with Hitler in US ) , when George Formby , who otherwise divides his time between playing his ukulele and trying to crack the code a bandleader is using to broadcast messages to the Germans , dreams a sequence in which he flies over Berlin in a Zeppelin , lands at a Nuremberg rally and challenges the Führer himself , ‘ You , Adolf , put a sock in it . ’ |
| 8 | To presuppose , for example , that all ‘ quasi-judicial ’ matters could be dealt with in the same way is to risk forcing cases into a straightjacket that will be too big for some and too small for others . |
| 9 | To do this the distance on the graph from X to each of the three points ( water , grassland and pine forest ) is calculated using Pythagoras 's theorem , and pixel X is allocated to the class for which this distance is the shortest . |
| 10 | She employs a method called ‘ rhetorical criticism ’ , a form of literary criticism , in which the text is criticized using clues given in the text itself . |
| 11 | The Code of Practice which the Secretary of State has approved is intended to give traders practical guidance . |
| 12 | I understand from the hon. Gentleman that the station provided for in the Bill is intended to serve trains coming initially along a different route — not from Stratford — to the Euroterminal . |
| 13 | It is intended to replace Directives 72/159 , 72/160 , 72/161 ( see Chapter 3 ) and Articles 4–17 of the LFA Directive , 75/268 . |
| 14 | The revenue from the tax , currently around £1.2 billion per year , is intended to subsidize projects using alternative fuel sources , but at the moment more than 90 per cent goes to the nuclear industry ( which is why the tax is often called the " nuclear levy " ) . |
| 15 | The label — showing a four-leaf daisy , the twelve stars symbolizing the EC , countries , and the letter " E " — is intended to harmonize standards across the Community and take the place of proliferating national labels and sometimes questionable environmental advertising . |
| 16 | The proposal is intended to allow students access to understanding business more fully through core and foundation subjects . |
| 17 | This ambitious project is intended to allow employees in Indonesia access to international awards and thus increase the potential of the Indonesian workforce . |
| 18 | Some have expressed the fear that financial delegation to schools is intended to allow cuts in spending and to weaken further the grip of recalcitrant LEAs . |
| 19 | The technology , which is intended to enable users tp link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 20 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 21 | The questionnaire shown in appendix 10 , is intended to enable teachers to personally assess their behaviour towards pupils of both sexes and is proposed , by the Canadian Committee on the Status of Women of the Government of Quebec , to be distributed to all teachers . |
| 22 | The FBL 's compulsory insurance requirement is intended to reassure shippers and consignees that they will be adequately and reliably compensated in the event of delay or accidental loss , from the time the goods were ‘ taken in charge ’ by the freight forwarder to the time of their delivery to the named consignee . |
| 23 | Rather , as was pointed out in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , it is intended to reassure informants that their statements will only be used for the investigation of complaints and for such criminal or disciplinary proceedings as directly follow . |
| 24 | Overall the ‘ Mighty Shovel ’ is of rugged construction and is intended to survive years of hard use . |
| 25 | ‘ Guidelines for Teachers and Lecturers of Students with Special Needs ’ is intended to help teachers and lecturers who wish to deliver modules to students with special needs , whether these arise from a learning difficulty , a sensory impairment or from some other reason . |
| 26 | This guide is intended to help teachers and students by examining the weaknesses shown in previous examinations and providing advice on model answers . |
| 27 | The scheme is intended to help buyers identify products which are least harmful to the environment and relies on manufacturers voluntarily putting their products forward for assessment . |
| 28 | This specification is intended to show programmers the calling mechanisms used to aid the writing of PI programs in other languages such as ADA , CORAL , FORTRAN etc . |
| 29 | The programme is intended to introduce users to the client-server model and offer a flexible networked solution to solve a business problem . |
| 30 | The programme is intended to introduce users to the client-server model and offer a flexible networked solution to solve a business problem . |