Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] doing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've yet to pass Sabraxis ’ tests , ’ Lucien said , eager to accept , but afraid of doing so . |
| 2 | ‘ There are many good bands in Africa ; they all want to come abroad but it is difficult to get visas and many promoters are only interested in doing just one tour . |
| 3 | In Tallis 's reading , Saussure did not move from the sign , which comprised signifier + signified , to reference , because he was not interested in doing so , being concerned only with the internal aspects of a language-system . |
| 4 | The warm response to the successful National Learn the Organ Year in 1990 suggests that there are many people who are interested in doing so . |
| 5 | One occasionally comes across a man who is almost a recluse and one wonders how he manages to make a living for he does n't seem very interested in doing so . |
| 6 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 7 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 8 | Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so . |
| 9 | Some parties have been assiduous in doing so , others have not . |
| 10 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 11 | Each of the parties further recognises that , by reason of my acting in such capacity , I will , in performing my duties hereunder ( but subject to doing so honestly and in good faith ) , be immune from all actions and proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in connection with my appointment hereunder . |
| 12 | IT IS not every day , at my age , that I am asked to go into a dark cupboard with a man , so I was both flattered and cautious on doing so . |
| 13 | As a coach to both a colts XV and a senior team I have seen the game my charges play become more free flowing by doing away with the juggernaut mentality . |
| 14 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 15 | This it manifestly does , but it is aware that it is not unique in doing so ( whence the many references to Tristam Shandy and Jacques le fataliste , archetypes of the novel that undermines its own stated project of telling a story ) . |
| 16 | I took this to be written approval for the project to go ahead and I believe , in view of the wording , that I was quite justified in doing so . |
| 17 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 18 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |
| 19 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 20 | But my principal aim is to help to create a mood in which individual teachers are more keen to push for their own changes , and to become more effective in doing so . |
| 21 | Glib statements about the use of prime movers and changing the reward system conceal the considerable difficulties often involved in doing just that . |
| 22 | In contrast , adults are expected to assume independence for maintaining a safe environment and are involved in doing so in the home , at work , at play and while travelling . |
| 23 | They 're convinced they 're right in doing so |
| 24 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
| 25 | But if you use the function who is responsible for doing then you can often find out who . |
| 26 | Thus , some RACs had already reached the standards of provision suggested in Haycocks while others still fell considerably short of doing so . |
| 27 | If he chooses to use the word ’ collusion ’ , and apply it to me in that context , he is attributing dishonourable conduct — he should be ashamed of doing so . |
| 28 | I remind the House that we are not alone in doing so . |
| 29 | Older people will not discuss their feelings unless they feel safe in doing so . |
| 30 | Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students ' preparedness to respond . |