Example sentences of "for doing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And others are cheered for doing well despite personal problems . |
| 2 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 3 | Will the Minister pledge total support for the Nottingham city technology college for doing just what our young people and the nation need ? |
| 4 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 5 | That 's a funny body for doing on . |
| 6 | That kind of thing irked her , as did the difference in pay between women and men for doing practically the same work . |
| 7 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 8 | Our current performance is at around the Group average , and I have no doubt not only of our ability to keep this up , but of our potential for doing even better in the longer term on any standard of assessment . |
| 9 | I admired them for doing openly what many women do in secret or under the respectable cover of marriage . |
| 10 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 11 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 12 | A 1991 report by the province 's auditor-general lambasted government foresters for doing little to ensure that logging companies met British Columbia 's standards — which are far more lax than those employed by the United States Forest Service just south of the border . |
| 13 | Marilyn Brown is also critical of the Foreign Office , for doing little to assist her son . |
| 14 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 15 | But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise . |
| 16 | You will find , unless there are very good reasons for doing otherwise , that here you will find it difficult to manage if you have as many as eight suspects , for no longer can your suspects be mere plaster figures . |
| 17 | Unless there are good and generally agreed reasons for doing otherwise , the rule which readily minimises conflict is simply to decrease each department 's budget by the same percentage . |
| 18 | But if you use the function who is responsible for doing then you can often find out who . |
| 19 | ‘ There was n't much scope for doing very much that year … . |
| 20 | He earned his position by forcing Fox head Steve Roth to give him the lead in the much-touted The Good Son and $8 million in return for doing Home Alone 2 . |
| 21 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 22 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 23 | Fired for doing too much work |
| 24 | But the centres which were the linchpin of the movement were criticized both for erring too much on the side of prevention — tackling such issues as racism , poverty and education in the communities served , and for doing too little prevention , this arising from the affiliation of most of them to general and mental hospitals . |
| 25 | There were limits , however , to how far he was ready to stimulate German demand to help other countries and he was critical of the Americans , British and others for doing too little to tackle inflation . |
| 26 | Of course , it had made a bloody marvellous spectacle — not to mention £125,000 for doing absolutely nothing — but ‘ the boys ’ were growing increasingly restive at having their records , and themselves , banned . |
| 27 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 28 | He was not always praised for deserting the naturalistic mode : old Mr Rent-a-Plot himself , John Mortimer , chastised him for doing precisely that in The Old Men at the Zoo . |
| 29 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
| 30 | Frank Kermode in The Genesis of Secrecy seemed to be engaging in a severance of world and word , and was called to account by Helen Gardner for doing so . |