Example sentences of "doing [adj] kind " in BNC.

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1 Twelve year olds were doing that kind of task on a computer .
2 By 1987 , however , the classical style of architecture had started being used on large-scale developments also , and the average age of the architects doing this kind of work had dropped .
3 They were n't used to doing this kind of thing — they were n't used to rock and roll or putting something up and taking it down every day , so really it was a white elephant from the beginning .
4 There are no doubt directors who claim — whatever the reality — that they are doing this kind of thing already , albeit with less lavish resources .
5 Digital cartography promised a more efficient and flexible way of doing this kind of work .
6 Ani said : ‘ People always seem to be impressed by a girl doing this kind of work .
7 ‘ Having the right action and the right gauges of strings is really critical for doing this kind of thing .
8 Electrical and magnetic units , for example , could be put into centimetres , grams and seconds ; and doing this kind of work kept physicists busy for many years .
9 They are always doing this kind of thing .
10 Erm , again if you 're not comfortable doing this kind of thing then you should n't do it obviously , and the last thing on the monthly calendar card is as you 'll see er , er on the twenty fourth , twenty fifth , twenty sixth and twenty seventh , it has another personal message there .
11 Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists .
12 She 's a scream she loves doing this kind of thing , does n't she ,
13 stages until it 's sort of , set up , until everyone is sort of you know geared into doing this kind of you know , like all the glass goes here , all the metal goes here , all the goes there
14 five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up .
15 That 's one of the reasons why they do n't like doing this kind of thing that the did this morning , because they do n't want to affect the project in any way , and I think the management takes advantage of that .
16 He 's doing some kind of business .
17 Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager ; moreover , Santa Cruz is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation to run over Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT .
18 Moreover , SCO is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation for Microsoft Corp Windows NT .
19 Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’
20 Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know .
21 So Mark said they were out celebrating after he cam and he 's working for them next Saturday , she 's doing some kind of a function ,
22 Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs .
23 We started doing different kinds of shows like ‘ Artist of the Day ’ which introduced the gallery to a completely new range of young artists .
24 So join in our diet by doing these kinds of activity for at least 45 minutes three times a week , and watch your fat and calorie intake .
25 Took me , I was , the , do doing all kind of roadwork on Belgian and Luxembourg highways
26 Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters .
27 Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable .
28 People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying .
29 But in the context of the mid-Sixties , when Britain 's chaotic labour relations were deemed to be among the world 's worst , such good-natured willingness to work long hours , doing all kinds of jobs , for sums of money that were not vast , are extraordinary .
30 Er well I was doing all kinds really there was a staff then and of servants but I was lo I was er looking after the old lady more than anything .
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