Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electronic bug the size of a staple is helping protect valuable antiques . |
| 2 | Do you really believe that the performance appraisal system ( currently so fashionable ) is helping achieve profit ? |
| 3 | A NEW breed of telephone is helping create 41 new jobs at the Darlington operation of telecommunications group Hutchison . |
| 4 | Ever-improving direct air service from Britain to the gateways of Miami and Orlando is helping keep travel costs down , and tourist living expenses in Florida benefits from competition in the hotel , car rental and tour business , especially in the off-season . |
| 5 | Ironically , crime is helping provide legitimate employment for 420,000 people battling AGAINST it . |
| 6 | Beyond the slightest doubt the new technology is helping reshape politics here far more dramatically than pious talk of the ‘ socialist market economy ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Johnson 's fiancee Gillyanne is helping compile the list — despite her grief . |
| 8 | Information and cash are two very practical ways that the Campaign is helping encourage more people actively to care for their local surroundings . |
| 9 | I 'm glad he 's let go , cos it was starting to hurt , he was squeezing so tight . |
| 10 | If Mr Lawson now drives the economy into deep recession or , alternatively , inflation is let rip , the Government would almost certainly perish at the polls . |
| 11 | The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage . |
| 12 | Winsor & Newton 's Griffin is made form an oil modified alkyd resin . |
| 13 | Winsor & Newton 's Griffin is made form an oil modified alkyd resin . |
| 14 | Question six , pate de foie gras is made form the liver of , okay literary of a fat goose , but we accepted goose alright , so pate de foie gras from a goose liver . |
| 15 | If no notification is made prepare the first absence letter to be issued . |
| 16 | Does the difficulty of the prediction task and the way a prediction is made have an influence on how good predictions are ? |
| 17 | It is a common tactic of sellers to delay producing the disclosure letter until as late as possible , usually saying that they can not prepare the disclosure letter until the warranties against which disclosure is made have been finalised . |
| 18 | what what the insurance salesman do is do wobble you a little bit so that you will take it out , you know , can you afford down , if you were forty having a heart attack leaving a wife and young child behind . |
| 19 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 20 | She says it 's helped cure her bad back . |
| 21 | She 's helped set up the protest group , Mothers Against Murder and Agression . |
| 22 | Modestly , PC Danby gives much of the credit to the Neighbourhood Watch schemes he 's helped set up . |
| 23 | All right then , it might just be a fabulous walk , but whatever the reason it 's helped wear a deep wide scar up the glen that the scenery could well do without . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's helped turn her career around , ’ said Mackenzie . |
| 25 | Sharon 's helped organise a national protest of more than 2,000 disabled people outside London Weekend Television on Saturday . |
| 26 | The challenge is to help create a climate within which it is not just acceptable but normal for teachers to talk openly about their feelings , their perceptions , their misgivings , their ideals and their experiments , whether large or small , successful or unsuccessful . |
| 27 | The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum , based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based , concept-based , skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas ( whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC 's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects ) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum , which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way . |
| 28 | Our main aim is to help promote a competitive and efficient labour market . |
| 29 | The aim of the Employment Service is to help promote a competitive and efficient labour market , particularly by giving positive help to unemployed people through its job placement service and other programmes and by the payment of benefits and allowances to those who are entitled to them . |
| 30 | Our job is to help build up trust between the smaller companies and their banks . ’ |