Example sentences of "doing [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because gene frequencies are generally presumed to change in phylogeny , then it is suggested that genes must be doing the real work in ontogeny . |
| 2 | We 're doing the real work 90 per cent of the time . |
| 3 | There is nothing to stop you doing the entire job yourself if you have the time and the skill . |
| 4 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 5 | There was a price agreement for a specific task , either coal-getting or doing the necessary stonework in preparation , and Trist et al. ( 1963 ) observe that management dealt with workers through the union to a far greater extent than in most industries . |
| 6 | I was doing the Mujahadeen side for Life and one day I thought it would be a great story to be in Kabul when it fell , to see it from the Mujahadeen side . |
| 7 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 8 | In a nutshell : young country bumpkin black cop is drafted in to defuse the tension on a London estate and discovers who 's really doing the dirty work . |
| 9 | ‘ On your knees , doing the dirty work , Sally-Anne ? ’ |
| 10 | If you are not too bothered erm , if you do n't know a priori where the break comes , you can just split the sample size in half and just estimate erm an equation for each , not less , you wo n't but the computer will , if you just specify half the sample size , right , and when it asks for the number of observations failure or Chow tests you just press the return key and it will use all the remaining observations , right , but when you are doing the empirical work you should always test for structural stability , right , and er either of Chow 's tests will , will suffice , right , but if you 've got a very small stock sample where there are fewer observations than there are parameters to be estimated you will have to use Chow 's second test failure . |
| 11 | PC Tools has a front-end shell which , as well as doing the usual stuff , like allowing you to play with your files and format disks , has the added benefits of being able to repair corrupted drives and to recover lost , deleted or damaged files . |
| 12 | Instead of doing the usual reach-fall-reach , choose a point a few hundred metres upwind as a target to sail to , then you can concentrate solely on gybing as you work your way back downwind . |
| 13 | Guess who 's doing the extra day ? got my dad to cover a day . |
| 14 | Or it may show its need to excel by jumping obstacles better than other horses , or doing the perfect workout in the show ring or dressage arena , producing the most fantastic extended trot when shown in hand , or behaving perfectly with a beginner rider on its back . |
| 15 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ After nine months of doing the early morning show and the Breakfast Show with Simon Mayo , I was half-dead . |
| 17 | Steven was doing the front lawn |
| 18 | Goodness when you , mum and dad 's done the back garden , when you meant to be doing the front garden with the weeding and that ? , well what 's all , you know , all these wages . |
| 19 | and his , his er son was one of the lads who worked in the office doing the middle turn , you see , and er I do n't know if he 's still alive . |
| 20 | I 'm only doing the other stuff to be with you . |
| 21 | Thought we were doing the other side . |
| 22 | But what you doing we you were doing the other thing on that . |
| 23 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 24 | He makes a digging-stick , moro , for his boy to play with while the father is doing the actual work of weeding or turning the soil . |
| 25 | Needless to say , both approaches made life difficult for the officials who were doing the actual negotiating . |
| 26 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 27 | Presumably the ships earn money by carrying cargoes , doing the ordinary business of shipping . " |
| 28 | Tackle some of your critics ' repeated messages by doing the following exercise : |
| 29 | I lay there with absolutely no idea what I would be doing the following day or if I stood any chance of being selected by the Legion . |
| 30 | OSF is doing the final integration and testing of DME reportedly because it could n't get any of its members to take the job after the tussle IBM had integrating DCE . |