Example sentences of "[v-ing] to do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the rise of the Country Dancing Clubs was maybe be to kind of try and compensate in a way for the dances themselves going down , ordinary dances , folk were wanting to do the Scottish dancing and things ? |
| 2 | In this contriving to do the obvious thing in a way not altogether obvious will lie the difference between producing a run-of-the-mill story , which may well never see the light of day , and producing a story with that something extra . |
| 3 | If to tax and to please , no more than to love and be wise , is not given to man , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on seeking to do the impossible . |
| 4 | Natural selection gives the responsibility for progress to the individuals who make up the population ; in seeking to do the best for themselves , they help to guarantee the future of their species . |
| 5 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 6 | Are you going to do the other one , or is somebody else ? |
| 7 | When we get out , I 'm going to do the following things . |
| 8 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |
| 10 | I thought ‘ What 's the other person going to put down , is he going to do the same ? |
| 11 | Mum is going to do the same with her sewing . |
| 12 | Having stolen the roof at Volx from Duboc and Agincourt from menestrel , is he now going to do the same with the Plage route ? |
| 13 | Damon and Lee lit up cigarettes of their own at St John 's Wood , which they placed between the doors , and Chris and Kevin were going to do the same at Baker Street . |
| 14 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 15 | Last season he was trained by Oliver Sherwood , who turned him into one of the best novice hurdlers and now Henrietta Knight will be attempting to do the same over fences . |
| 16 | During this period Cardinals were being bred by a well known fishkeeper who lived in Cornwall and this stirred my interest in attempting to do the same . |
| 17 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 18 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 19 | With a tired little toss of the head , she turned away and sat down in an armchair , motioning for Golding to do the same . |
| 20 | The worst possible condition that can be envisaged is one in which there is an expert in the plant aiming to do the maximum possible damage and aware of the indications of his actions which are transmitted to the operator — this is not quite science-fiction , it could happen as a form of sabotage , . |
| 21 | A new wave of black British talent is now threatening to do the same — breaking out of a burgeoning club circuit and gearing up to colonise the nation 's TV sets |
| 22 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 23 | I 've just said are you still having to do the six months , it 'll sound as if you 're getting a prison sentence |
| 24 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 25 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 26 | Any coach is doing to do the best for his side ; if it suits him to be negative , he will be . |
| 27 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 28 | Trying to do the normal thing can be the cause of accidents with cable breaks and winch failures on smaller gliding sites . |
| 29 | ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’ |
| 30 | The WRU was riven , by the league issue , even before the divisive South African centenary celebrations — which distracted Ryan , his players and the Welsh public from their main business , trying to do the impossible against the All Blacks . |