Example sentences of "is [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob is helping a dozen patients at Stoke Mandeville to prepare for a new independent life . |
| 2 | How Oxfam is helping the poorest people of South America . |
| 3 | Sarah Benton minds the gap ; The pain in Spain The underclass is striking , the unions are united , and Felipe González has run out of ideas , says Denis MacShane ; Hooked on IT Gary Herman on how technology is helping the Labour movement to organise itself internationally |
| 4 | Dr Pertwee said it could be that the genetic substance is helping the human memory to function properly and having a controlling or modulatory role on the brain . |
| 5 | Trade is helping the three economies to grow closer together . |
| 6 | With conventional jobs in very short supply , Sunderland CAB is helping the unemployed set up their own small businesses . |
| 7 | Oxfam , by funding and working with a local project in Concepcion , is helping the independent fishermen organise themselves to lobby government for changes in the law . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Behind them , Ol Doinyo Lengai is catching the late afternoon sunlight . |
| 10 | An Collins 's expression of self-effacing humility is better than Herbert 's in the sense that Collins 's humility is paramount where Herbert is maintaining a strong concept of self and , indeed , self-applause . |
| 11 | The arguments in favour of the provision of an outer bypass for Edinburgh , designed to a high standard , are so overwhelming that Lothian Regional Council is maintaining a continuing construction programme aimed at completion of the entire bypass by 1990 . |
| 12 | Jackie is maintaining an optimistic outlook for the future . |
| 13 | It may therefore be assumed that a manager is maintaining an adequate policy if the competitive position is being maintained and projections indicate that it is likely to be maintained in future . |
| 14 | the best thing to do , check with the Health Board , they 'll the only other way is to go a certain distance into nowadays |
| 15 | To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far . |
| 16 | One is to go the whole atomist hog and turn women too into full-time contracting egoists , no less exploitative and solitary than the males . |
| 17 | At least one major centre is using a continuous intravenous insulin infusion for all diabetics with infarcts ( Lamb , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | One of the most common reasons for a machine not stitching correctly is using a blunt needle or an incorrect size of needle for the fabric and thread . |
| 19 | Steilmann , working in conjunction with leading scientists and investing , to date , DM 5 million , is using a new manufacturing process . |
| 20 | In collaboration with the Institute of Hydrology BGS is using a digital terrain model to represent geochemical data from a catchment . |
| 21 | You can always tell someone who is using a digital watch . |
| 22 | The most popular method or organic farming is using a multi-culture system in which crops are grown and livestock reared . |
| 23 | An operating team from Princess Margaret is using a spare theatre at the RAF Hospital . |
| 24 | The wind is about Force 4 here and Ken is using a large sail . |
| 25 | However , I wonder if the Institute is using a different version of FRS 1 from mine . |
| 26 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 27 | He is using a human child as research material , removing him from what everybody — our readers — must regard as a normal human life . |
| 28 | That our instinctive loathing for the way Dr. Briant is manipulating human life , is using a human child as a lever to open the box that holds God 's secrets about life , our response , I say , is not reactionary , not the stupid fears of little men , but is born of our awareness of the dangers of knowing too much , is a God-given warning , if you like . |
| 29 | We must remember that he had started his active life as a lawyer and as a student of rhetoric , and he is using a common figure of rhetoric , hyperbole , within carefully controlled limits . |
| 30 | Trafalgar House Construction 's Open Learning Centre is using a television-based management training resource as a key element in the development of management skills and work based competence . |