Example sentences of "doing [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But " originality " presents a difficult problem because ( unless you are doing advanced research ) you are unlikely to be in a position to advance new facts or radically new interpretations , or even to have a wide enough knowledge of what other people have written to be sure that you are not duplicating it . |
| 2 | Is he I did n't know he 'd started doing advanced French . |
| 3 | I think erm when I started doing low temperature physics about twenty-five years ago or so , the lowest temperature that had been reached was around about erm two milli-kelvins from absolute zero . |
| 4 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , come on , William , you 're not exactly doing gang-buster business , are you ? ’ |
| 6 | I wrote to my Aunt Florence Veness who was now doing private work in Eastbourne . |
| 7 | Jim Smith seems intent on doing private business in public . |
| 8 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 9 | Professor Alan Goodship at Bristol University is currently doing extensive research work on tendon injury and repair and has presented several papers on his work . |
| 10 | They fitted it in while doing normal training on Jaguars and Harriers . |
| 11 | Do our surgical colleagues stop doing total hip replacements for pain because of the incidence of possible fatal embolism ? |
| 12 | Certainly with lower ability children doing oral work and class work that was true , Whether it would be so if there had been practical tasks associated with the French language is another question . |
| 13 | Community development theory and practice offer special challenges to all health workers but also a new way to go about doing health-related work with people . |
| 14 | The point is that Carter USM are in the same position in America as they were in Britain two years ago , constantly gigging and doing pithy radio plugs to make their mark . |
| 15 | Not as wild boar running free and doing untold damage to the countryside , as in Italy , France and Germany ; but as farmed wild boar which should ease your mind , even if it causes the farmers untold headaches . |
| 16 | And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 18 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 19 | No , I was doing doing German nightschool . |
| 20 | Some idea of your particular model 's handling characteristics can be gleaned from doing steep stall turns , but eventually you will have to try a proper loop and see what happens . |
| 21 | It looks as though she 's doing Scottish dancing , do you do Scottish dancing ? |
| 22 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
| 23 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 24 | When Jack Kevorkian helps people to commit suicide he could be doing grave damage to the Hippocratic oath . |
| 25 | Doing public service , for example Red Cross work . |
| 26 | Unless action is taken only the rich will be able to contemplate being solicitors and only those firms doing commercial work are going to offer traineeships . |
| 27 | However , the Census Microdata Unit staff , including a computer officer and a research associate , will be doing evaluative work on the samples when they are loaded and usable . |
| 28 | A detailed word list for beginning field work with the aim of doing segmental phonology is included at the end of this chapter . |
| 29 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 30 | For example if you work indoors , at a desk , doing clerical work , a suitable hobby might involve being outside , doing some physical activity . |