Example sentences of "[noun] be do [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 2 | Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so |
| 3 | Tragedy is doing something in spite of the conditions . |
| 4 | With so much at stake it is understandable that the Department of Trade and Industry is doing everything in its power to avoid all-out war . |
| 5 | Headline is doing lots of advertising , which will link up to the new hardback in September and the next paperback in December — a Koontz autumn programme . |
| 6 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 7 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 8 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 9 | If you go for a ten year fix , Bank of Scotland are doing it at about eight point nine nine . |
| 10 | Oh , Christ , the cat 's done it outside the tray again … |
| 11 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 12 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 13 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 14 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 15 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
| 16 | People are doing it for him because they loved him very much and he was a very funny guy as well as a kind person . |
| 17 | People are do something at the end of the training and it focuses your mind to the trainer writing material . |
| 18 | But that 's exactly what 's happened and now fed up villagers are doing something about it . |
| 19 | Should cats be doing it at all , should any animal be made to do those sort of tricks ? |
| 20 | And in our region rural entrepreneurs are doing everything from worm farming to building three wheeled sports cars.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 21 | The doctors are doing everything for her . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ At the moment there is no icon , there are no pop stars because most people who are involved in dance music are doing it in their back room , we 're out to change all that . ’ |
| 23 | The notion of speech acts was introduced by the Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin , who pointed out that in uttering this or that well-formed sentence a speaker is doing something over and above expressing its literal meaning . |
| 24 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 25 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 26 | Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ? |
| 27 | But the government is doing nothing about enforcement . |
| 28 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |
| 29 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 30 | I wonder if the police are doing anything about it … |