Example sentences of "[be] do a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you 're doing a lot of training , sir . ’ |
| 3 | Do you think we 're doing a lot all in one go ? |
| 4 | Our half year results demonstrate that we 're doing a lot of the right things to get there . |
| 5 | We are absolutely clear on that , it came over quite clearly from heads , the previous policy of increasing class sizes and therefore not spending any more money but claiming we 're doing a lot for nursery education , the previous policy erm was not one which they wanted to support . |
| 6 | He says we 're doing a lot of good for the village … we 're determined to win . |
| 7 | But it annoys you they they they think they 're doing a lot for her 'cos they go in ev every morning . |
| 8 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 9 | But I I could n't get over you know , I say , I had a quick look the other at Marks you know , to even do the Christmas serviettes they 're doing a lot more and they said if people are n't buying as much on the clothes side erm so they they 've come down , I mean now I can get erm come over , and I said you 've never looked at Marks I said you never buy clothes , I said have a look in Marks , I said they do some really lovely |
| 10 | They 're doing a lot of advertising of |
| 11 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 12 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 13 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 14 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 15 | The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems . |
| 16 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 17 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 18 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 19 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 20 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 22 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 23 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
| 24 | In a sense Greenpeace volunteers are doing a lot of dirty work for the rest of us . |
| 25 | However , the very fact that you are reading this proves that you are doing a lot more to prepare for life , and marriage in particular , from a Christian perspective . |
| 26 | Young people are doing a lot in our diocese , so let's hear from you . |
| 27 | In this business , you 're on dodgy ground trying to attach the words ‘ courage ’ and ‘ integrity ’ to anything ; certainly the Heavenly EP is for a good cause , and those involved are doing a lot for their profiles in the worthiest possible way , blah blah , charidee , blah blah AIDS , but Sinead has done too ( see following letter ) and in any case , she 's on another planet to these people . |
| 28 | No , I 'll change the length for those people who are doing a lot of recording . |
| 29 | If you are doing a lot of work reports , you 're going to do a longer transcription , and the transcription 's going to , cos you 've got to make sure that your transcription 's according to the basis of consistent in its way around . |
| 30 | I think it should be done a lot younger as well . |