Example sentences of "[was/were] do no " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accepting the payments the revenue were doing no more than agreeing that they would not be treated as prejudicing any such right . |
| 2 | In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 3 | said that if the defendants were doing no more than perform an obligation already cast upon them by law there was no consideration for the plaintiffs agreement not to sue . |
| 4 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 5 | But the authors insisted that they were doing no more than " vindicating and asserting … antient rights and liberties " . |
| 6 | My first reaction was that she was to do no such thing . |
| 7 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 8 | In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered . |
| 9 | Sources at the investment bank said it was doing no such thing , although the shares neverthe less ended the session 6 ahead at 227p . |
| 10 | was doing no more than leaving open the question which this court has now to decide . |
| 11 | … ’ Reading this part of the judgment as a whole , however , it is clear that the district judge was doing no more than taking note of the fact that whereas the proceedings before him were ready for trial the future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was beset with uncertainty . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt that I was doing no wrong . |
| 13 | Joe had comforted her , and told her that no one could help falling in love , and if she was not breaking up his marriage she was doing no harm . |
| 14 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 15 | ‘ I was doing no such thing ! ’ she lied hotly . |
| 16 | And sometimes she would announce that she was doing no more in the house . |
| 17 | From the off he had me convinced that by helping him I was doing no more than carving out a new life for myself as a better citizen , a better human being . |
| 18 | ‘ I was doing no such thing , ’ she protested . |
| 19 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |