Example sentences of "doing [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 2 | Poulantzas appeals to Althusser 's theory to resolve the long-standing problem of how to characterise the capitalist state — and in doing so casts light on its power and its limitations . |
| 3 | A week later Miss A completed her payments under her hire-purchase agreement and in doing so fed title down the line of purchasers . |
| 4 | But doing so takes time , so there will still be a gap in which to organise orderly realignments . |
| 5 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 6 | ONe of these was the notion of compiling human knowledge as sets of ‘ rules ’ that could be manipulated and controlled by an ‘ inference engine ’ , the purpose being to combine human type reasoning with the processing speed of the computer and by doing so to provide output that was similar to that of a human expert . |
| 7 | It tries to jump the gap and in doing so sets fire to y the surrounding material that the blanket is made of and that 's where you start to get problems on your fire blankets . |
| 8 | Microsoft supremo Bill Gates is doing more to unify Unix than any other single human being in the last five years . |
| 9 | Only when the Cobblers were doing well did county people go to Northampton , hence the club 's languishing state before Chapman took over . |