Example sentences of "be doing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cold grey of the newly painted hull would soon be doing trials off the Isle of Arran . |
| 2 | He also wo n't be doing Stavros or Loadsamoney , either . |
| 3 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 4 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |
| 5 | But the reality is of course that those , that my investigators and Chris 's will be doing work that strictly speaking they should n't be , and I think that 's |
| 6 | Oh , I should be doing work but I ca n't . |
| 7 | Should be doing work , but I ca n't . |
| 8 | According to Keith Alexander , executive producer : ‘ We felt we should be doing programmes about tradition , but not with Kenneth Clark holding forth in Tuscany . |
| 9 | What you like , Thunderbirds , are n't they supposed to be doing Thunderbirds with real people ? |
| 10 | He would curse when he heard the message , even though tomorrow the string would be doing road work and she was not needed . |
| 11 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 12 | But she seems to be doing night shift a lot recently . |
| 13 | That 's what he uses , cos I mean he would n't be doing stuff like this anyway mind . |
| 14 | Now we 'll we 'll we 'll concentrate on some see with maths you have to do things in certain Are we supposed to be doing maths today are we supposed to be doing English ? |
| 15 | She might be doing maths this morning . |
| 16 | When he hangs up his gloves he says he 'll just be doing alot more gardening instead . |
| 17 | Now we 'll we 'll we 'll concentrate on some see with maths you have to do things in certain Are we supposed to be doing maths today are we supposed to be doing English ? |
| 18 | According to the company 's product manager , Howard Green , ‘ it 's a fair assumption to make that the company will be doing implementations for the Alpha , but we 're still negotiating terms . ’ |
| 19 | One of our neighbours rang to say she 'd booked the village hall and she and her ladies would be doing scones and tea . |
| 20 | In this survey they looked at the different kinds of training and jobs undertaken by black people and found that they were likely to be doing worse jobs than white youth irrespective of their qualifications . |
| 21 | Your competitors may not be doing things in the best possible way . |
| 22 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |
| 23 | And yesterday he vowed : ‘ If I am appointed , I shall be doing things in a somewhat different style . |
| 24 | It will certainly not seem long if you work consistently toward daily targets , in a few weeks you 'll be doing things you have n't done for years , or never thought possible . |
| 25 | I 'm not disputing that , I 'm simply saying that perhaps we have a management problem here where we could be doing things differently and I 'd like to hear some positive suggestions from housing officers as to how you can address that . |
| 26 | We do n't seem to be doing things very well here . |
| 27 | It might be doing things at night time , leaving the lights on , to make it look as though you 're in . |
| 28 | ‘ You should n't be doing things like this for me , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I 'm usually perfectly rational , yet suddenly I seem to be doing things I 've never done before . ’ |
| 30 | There are those who 'd say marcel really should n't be doing things like this at his age . |