Example sentences of "[prep] [be] doing [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since you appear to be doing a thesis on True Romance , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 2 | At that point the band broke up , even though we were supposed to be doing a lot more touring . |
| 3 | They see it as something that they , as the caring agencies , must be involved in if they are going to be doing a good professional job . |
| 4 | But it is not enough to do a good job : our professional conduct committees must be seen to be doing a good job . |
| 5 | That way you can be seen to be doing a good job and will have more opportunity for improving your pay and possibly being promoted . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The police seem to be doing a very thorough job . ’ |
| 7 | Shinwell , always a better politician than administrator , was widely felt to be doing a poor job in this crucial economic ministry . |
| 8 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 9 | They seemed to be doing a good job . |
| 10 | Now , as the cold winds blow in New England , our transatlantic chums in Citizens seem to be doing a repeat act , picking up the odd dime or at least two Five Cents , Plymouth Five Cents and Boston Five Cents . |
| 11 | Although she seemed not to be doing a lot of that these days . |
| 12 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 13 | And I I ca n't understand it and I still have n't got to the bottom of the reason why is doing , seems to me to be doing a lot of work herself |
| 14 | ‘ I 've watched you with the kids , and , while I know it ca n't be easy , you seem to be doing a grand job . |
| 15 | ‘ They are supposed to be doing a job of work to house people not making residents ’ lives a misery . ’ |
| 16 | It sounds as if we could learn a great deal from Germany and Holland about , in the health service , erm because their systems by now by all statistical tests of mortality and illness and so on , seem to be doing a better job than ours . |
| 17 | This delay suggests that he had not intended his angry words to be taken literally , but at least one of his sons was clearly capable of making trouble , while claiming to be doing no more than carrying out his father 's wishes . |
| 18 | He knows that he 'll be doing some writing and he 's going to be doing an album next year . |
| 19 | And they made it clear that I was extremely fortunate to be doing the job I do . |
| 20 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |
| 21 | If you watch the treatment sessions , you may sometimes think that the patient is not taking any active role in initiating movements , whereas the physiotherapist seems to be doing the movements for him . |
| 22 | Today , of course , it suited him to be doing the shopping . |
| 23 | Ice-T has not yet commented on the situation , but Body Count 's manager , Jorge Hinojosa , said ‘ We 're glad to be doing the dates we are on the tour ’ . |
| 24 | Like Novell Inc , which appears to be doing the same thing ( UX No 413 ) , WordPerfect reportedly has big-time legal beagles at its beck and call . |
| 25 | It reveals a significant gap between the number of informal carers needed by the year 2000 and the number of people who expect to be doing the job . |
| 26 | Everyone else who was not engaged in either survey data collection or ship handling seemed to be doing the same . |
| 27 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 28 | Recall that the optimality theory says that an increase in k should lead to a fall in X , and that our subjects ( on the second repetition ) appeared to be doing the opposite . |
| 29 | Er , next week we 're gon na miss her even more , because she 's supposed to be doing the paper . |
| 30 | It is no wonder , when so many police officers appear to be doing the duties which prison officers should be doing and so many prisoners are placed in police cells . |