Example sentences of "is [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , the new availability of earlier texts of feminist interest is helping the explosion . |
| 2 | In practice much more of counselling focuses upon perceptions and feelings rather than upon facts and the end result most commonly is helping the sufferer to focus upon a question rather than an answer . |
| 3 | FORMER Tottenham defender Paul Miller yesterday revealed he is helping the consortium bidding to buy-out Barnet chairman Stan Flashman for £1 million . |
| 4 | Maybe it 's the threat of her crutches that is helping the decision makers sign . |
| 5 | BMW , Daimler 's chief competitor in the luxury-car market , is helping the tyre company . |
| 6 | It is good for the consumer and is helping the country out of recession . ’ |
| 7 | It is helping the child and parent recognize the intensity of positive feeling that can exist between them and that their love is unconditional . |
| 8 | BITC is helping the process with a series of international forums . |
| 9 | One of the central elements to any course of anxiety management training is helping the client to achieve a greater understanding of the origins , course and nature of the anxiety symptoms . |
| 10 | And to the many other ways in which CARE is helping the world 's poorest people to find a way out of poverty and ill-health . |
| 11 | Driving like his is helping the growth of off-road riding . |
| 12 | Naturally , everyone is helping the war effort as they see best . |
| 13 | Hooked on IT Gary Herman reports on how technology is helping the labour movement to organise itself internationally |
| 14 | ‘ Obviously , there have been some controversies but we believe the competition is catching the imagination of the fans . ’ |
| 15 | What remains difficult in the country is catching the bus . |
| 16 | Once the observations are completed the parents can devise a hypothesis about what is maintaining the problem behaviour . |
| 17 | HADEN MacLellan Holdings , the engineering and automated manufacturing systems group put together by Philip Ling , chairman , is maintaining the payout to shareholders at 8p , with a 5p final on July 1 , despite a 38 p.c. tumble in profits last year to £14.6m pre-tax . |
| 18 | ‘ Some trash is sniffing the bait . |
| 19 | The group tour contract also means that a mixture of market segments is using the hotel during the summer . |
| 20 | Brent Chemicals is raising £15.6m from a one-for-four rights issue and is using the money to buy a 75.1 per cent share in the German metals finishing chemical supplier , Hebro , for £10.2m . |
| 21 | Therefore it is difficult to know how much money is being provided , and whether a regional authority is using the money allocated for transport in the block grant for transport matters . |
| 22 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 23 | Moore Stephens is using the system itself , although none of the Scottish offices have implemented it as yet . |
| 24 | And if we talk of the head or the brain as the locality of thought , this is using the expression ‘ locality of thinking ’ in a different sense … |
| 25 | Themis Computer Systems Inc , on the other hand , is using the Classic to create the SparcLXE with VMEbus for embedded applications , priced at $4,000 in 100 lot with 8Mb DRAM . |
| 26 | Themis Computer Systems Inc , on the other hand , is using the Classic to create the SparcLXE with VMEbus for embedded applications , priced at $4,000 in lots of 100 with 8Mb DRAM . |
| 27 | If a bank is not recognized , it can not use the word ‘ bank ’ in its title ( unless it is an overseas bank operating in the UK and it is made clear that it is using the title ‘ bank ’ because it is entitled to do so in its country of origin ) . |
| 28 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 29 | ‘ It is using the legislation to stop the union working , at the same time turning ordinary men and women who want to work , but who have been locked out , into criminals , ’ Mr McLevy said . |
| 30 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |