Example sentences of "[be] doing [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does that create in terms of what you 're doing here in the plans and intentions bit , what does that getting over |
| 2 | And it 's something which we 're doing again in the future . |
| 3 | Well , I think perhaps what we 'll do cos you 've missed quite a few of these out so I think what we 'll do erm is to leave that what you 're doing there for a moment we 'll go through this mark this and the one 's you have n't done we 'll do so that you 've got this one straight . |
| 4 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 5 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 6 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 7 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 8 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |
| 9 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 10 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 11 | As I have said repeatedly , there remain a number of people for whom we think it is right to do more , and we have been doing more through the income support premiums . |
| 12 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 13 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 14 | Team manager of Kazakstan says the weather is hot , but his riders are doing well on the climbs . |
| 15 | Burmans are wanting to go into business more — a little group of Burmese businessmen have formed an industrial corporation ; young Burmans are doing well in the petrol and kerosene retail trade . |
| 16 | ‘ If teams are doing well in the League , Cups and Europe then they are forced to play so many games . |
| 17 | Most individual actors do not rely upon their own judgment of whether they are doing well in the action , but refer to certain members whose real or even fancied reactions are taken as the expression of binding judgments of propriety . |
| 18 | Surely the 18 people taking part are doing so through a love of their chosen sport , and not to become national heroes . |
| 19 | Thus , even though the 12 member states are following the same rules , they are doing so at a different pace , which further complicates an already complex situation . ’ |
| 20 | They are briefing consultancies sooner and are doing so at a more senior level . ’ |
| 21 | They are looking after their commercial interests , but unfortunately they are doing so at the expense of the tenants and customers , the very people who are supposed to benefit from the legislation . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is very important that , before we start legislating on the scale that the Opposition advocate , we make very sure that we are doing so on a sound factual basis . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’ |
| 24 | But then to be good at a sport , really good I mean , you have to learn how to do what you are doing naturally in the best way possible . |
| 25 | Dalziel grunted and thought that Jacko must be doing well at the moment to be in , for him , so light-hearted a mood . |
| 26 | Threats by the Labour party to renationalise privatised firms or to introduce ‘ social ownership ’ dented the share prices of privatised companies , whenever the Labour party appeared to be doing well in the opinion polls prior to the 1987 election . |
| 27 | Richard or Levi Pickles appeared to be doing most of the work . |
| 28 | Bobby Anscombe seemed to be doing most of the talking . |
| 29 | ‘ The new cars , ’ George said , ‘ will be heated by electricity , not steam , so we 'll be doing away with the steam pipe , eh ? |
| 30 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |