Example sentences of "is [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | How Oxfam is helping the poorest people of South America . |
2 | 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 |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Trade is helping the three economies to grow closer together . |
5 | With conventional jobs in very short supply , Sunderland CAB is helping the unemployed set up their own small businesses . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Behind them , Ol Doinyo Lengai is catching the late afternoon sunlight . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
11 | We are also expanding capacity , especially through Greater Glasgow health board which is using the private sector so that an extra 120 patients may be treated . |
12 | This is using the cancelling method in reverse . |
13 | If I change it once in one place only then automatically every program on the network is using the new version of the business rule . |
14 | the basis of this fifteen grand , is using the fifteen grand but like we can see you using that |
15 | Until recently , there have been no established codec standards and one system can only speak to another if it is using the same compression-decompression algorithms . |
16 | IBM Corp is using the 88110 in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got them in volume : a 40MHz 88110 offers roughly the performance of a 33MHz SuperSparc . |
17 | The company is using the latest techniques for development , but Dr Walters expressed reservations about the Best Linear Unbiased Prediction ( BLUP ) programme developed by the Meat and Livestock Commission . |
18 | erm the one at the Royal Sussex is perhaps interesting , in that in fact it 's the computer is based on a microprocessor , so it really is using the latest erm in advanced microtechnology . |
19 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
20 | The divisional organiser , John Kydd , one of the four men named in today 's proceedings , is convinced the company is using the electronic camera to monitor the union 's activities . |
21 | One , the organism-centred way , is to see the individual organism as the centre of interest , since it is individuals upon which selection acts : individuals survive and reproduce , or they die . |
22 | I 've just come to see what there is , part of the interest is to see the great bad taste of Robert Maxwell , no matter how much you spend of your own money or other people 's it ca n't buy you taste |
23 | The trick is to see the social context as the regular participants do , while at the same time remaining a detached observer of events . |
24 | The governor is to see the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , and the minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs , Mr Francis Maude . |
25 | JOHN SALAKO is to see the American surgeon who saved his career amid fears that he faces another lengthy lay-off with knee trouble . |
26 | JOHN SALAKO is to see the American surgeon who saved his career amid fears that he faces another lengthy lay-off with knee trouble . |
27 | Greenpeace is accusing the European Commission of breaking its own rules on environmental impact assessments ( EIAs ) by approving aid to two Spanish power stations before an EIA had been carried through . |
28 | One is to stiffen the anti-inflationary resolve of wobbly coalition or spendthrift socialist governments — and we have not got either of those . |
29 | Frank Thompson , the father of Anthony , is masterminding the fund-raising activities to be arranged over the next year and is open to suggestions and , of course , contributions , from any source . |
30 | The Law Society takes the view that the remedy for negligent work is to sue the negligent solicitor for compensation . |