Example sentences of "doing [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 3 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 5 | what are you doing for that hour then ? |
| 6 | No we 're doing for six weeks . |
| 7 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 8 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 9 | Amdahl says its own effort will do for the top-end of the Unix market what Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc are doing for low-end and desktop Unix . |
| 10 | Amdahl hopes its part of the exercise will do for the top-end of the Unix market what Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc are doing for low-end and desktop Unix . |
| 11 | I said , so I 've seen the job and I says er and I do n't think it 's worth doing for ninety quid . |
| 12 | That what I was thinking of doing for next year . |
| 13 | Oh it 's just a thing we 're doing for these Norweigy people . |
| 14 | How are you doing for those ? |
| 15 | What are you doing for those people who are at their wits end ? |
| 16 | The unwitting star of this video is doing between 85 and 92 mph towing a trailer . |
| 17 | ‘ How could I find out what he was doing between 1980 and 1982 ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | They clocked him doing between 110 and 114 mph on the M40 at Waterperry last October . |
| 19 | WHAT will you be doing between 18 and 25 October ‘ 92 ? |
| 20 | And what is the Government doing about that ? ’ |
| 21 | What are we doing about that ? |
| 22 | What , I wonder , is the fearless Insight Team doing about that ? |
| 23 | It 's right , it 's correct it is minus twelve but I could see you were really not very sure what you should be doing about that , that 's great , you 've found , you 've got that down to there , let's have a little look at the number line , zero , one , two , three and so on , minus one , minus two , minus three , minus four . |
| 24 | Will he tell the House what he is doing about that and what discussions he is having with the Treasury ? |
| 25 | What is the Minister doing about that ? |
| 26 | Wanted to know what you doing about that , and there 's John , and it was n't my fault ! |
| 27 | My marriage failed and I was doing about one job every six months — I was on the fringe of things . |
| 28 | ‘ With this new album , we 're acknowledging that , if your 're going to look outwards , it 's also important to look within yourself to find out exactly what you , as an individual , are doing about all this destruction , whether it 's political , social or environmental . |
| 29 | Given that these questions ask for purely factual information about the schools in which they work , it seems that the more junior teachers in many cases simply do not know about what their school is doing about such matters . |
| 30 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |