Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK , however , is far from happy about the prospect and sees it as helping to create a paradise for criminals , terrorists and drug traffickers . |
| 2 | Milic sees this habit as having a role in Swift 's persuasive rhetoric : as helping to create an impression of consummate logical clarity . |
| 3 | As well as helping to save the rainforests , you 'll also be helping the environment close to home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When considering the long-term effects of the social debate on evacuation , therefore , we must recognise that , as well as helping to construct an ideological climate favourable to welfare legislation , it also boosted a conservative , behaviouristic analysis of poverty that viewed the root cause of the children 's condition as family failure , poor parenting and general social inadequacy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You should steam a pudding rather than microwaving it , as steaming produces a better flavour . |
| 9 | Functionalism in public law views this apparatus of government as serving to promote a distinct set of purposes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Just as cockfighting allows a world where women are rendered invisible , so Geertz 's writing creates a text where his actually present wife is ignored as a non-person . |
| 15 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This was quite untenable to Barratt and Taylor and in a letter Taylor complained that there never had been such a requirement in any mining lease and any experienced miner would reject it as attempting to enforce an impossibility . |
| 18 | The dual purpose of the book was identified as attempting to present a view of landscape and processes in terms relevant to the student of human geography by indicating the ways in which socioeconomic and physical systems interlock and interact , and also by showing how far knowledge of the physical world and its processes is compatible with the ideas of systems theory to demonstrate areas in which research might profitably be concentrated . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The objective of this investigation can now be re-stated as attempting to determine the following quantities : |
| 21 | Bede presents Aethelred as abdicating to become a monk in 704 after a reign of thirty years ( HE V , 24 ) , but the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 704 ) states that he held the kingdom for twenty-nine years , that is , he died in his thirtieth year . |
| 22 | The Modern Art Fund , first founded in 1989 , provides essential financial support for museums and galleries in the purchasing of 20th century contemporary art , as well as aiming to stimulate a greater interest in modern art in Britain . |
| 23 | The Lord Chancellor is on record as wishing to reverse the cuts in eligibility if an opportunity arose . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With the standard pattern , outbound timing is defined as commencing abeam the holding point , or on reaching the outbound heading , whichever comes later . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
| 30 | It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers . |