Example sentences of "[verb] [be] do a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 4 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
| 13 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 14 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |