Example sentences of "they were doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 2 | They were doing so on largely political religious grounds . |
| 3 | ‘ Brenda said they were doing a post mortem this morning . |
| 4 | Youngsters from Yugoslavia , Hungary , Germany and France … they 're huge , big guys because they were doing everything property from 5 years old . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 6 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 7 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 8 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 9 | He discovered , for example , that laboratory technicians at Fawley were carrying out chemical tests without really understanding what it was they were doing . |
| 10 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 11 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 12 | Their exaggeration of the small tasks betrayed that they were more involved with Moran than in what they were doing . |
| 13 | as if they were doing a bizarre dance , followed by Marx , Herr Nordern backed through the tiny vestibule , into the sitting-room , and a silent , apprehensive circle of Norderns . |
| 14 | Most important of all , he inspired the people who worked for him with a vision of what they were doing . |
| 15 | Hard work , then sudden pauses as people were overwhelmed by what they were doing and why they had to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing . |
| 17 | In other words , the managers at the LBO could have achieved similar results without a buy-out ; what they were doing was seizing the gain for themselves . |
| 18 | Mr Waldegrave told doctors what they wanted to hear : they were doing a wonderful job and the NHS was not being turned into a tawdry commercial business . |
| 19 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 20 | They were doing a sort of Nordic cha cha cha with Dutch doll movements , hands and feet turned out at right angles and clockwork jerks of the head . |
| 21 | Suddenly a dog flung itself at me snarling and growling and they all stopped what they were doing to look in my direction . |
| 22 | He screwed his eyes tightly shut and tried not to imagine what they were doing together in the room with the shuttered window . |
| 23 | He wondered what they were doing to Ari . |
| 24 | A vast new respectable society arose round the professions , dignified by the belief that what they were doing ( although it might be exorbitantly expensive ) was in pursuit of some higher calling . |
| 25 | One kicker-out-of-loads , Iain Crawford , enlisted for the effort by his mother-in-law and obediently incurious about the cargo he was handling , remembered how the crew camped one night at Ilopango , cooking a barbecue beside the crates of plastic explosives ; and a group of men approached them , led by ‘ Ambassador Duemling of the State Department ’ , and winked at what they were doing . |
| 26 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 27 | Secord and Hakim told Secord 's lawyer that they thought they were doing ‘ the Lord 's work ’ . |
| 28 | You know , he would keep citing statistics on how their recruiting was going and what they were doing . |
| 29 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 30 | Top cosmetic company boss Angela Boxer protested : ‘ I do n't understand why they were doing this to the poor girl . |