Example sentences of "are do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leg raises are done the opposite way round , with the feet at the lower end of the incline bench . |
| 2 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 3 | There is only limited opportunity , in effect , to break the patterned nature of their work if field men are to do the other things required of them . |
| 4 | Giving parents a measure of choice would , it was argued , be more likely to secure their involvement in the school and in their child 's schooling : ‘ They are more likely to support a school they have freely chosen and to give it the loyalty which is so essential if their children are to do the same . ’ |
| 5 | But erm the conversations I 've had yesterday indicate that they are doing a major push on recruitment . |
| 6 | Agents are doing a marvellous job in the face of adversity but current affairs and the depletion of rollover funds are undermining values more than they want to admit . |
| 7 | ‘ I think the teachers are doing a marvellous job under enormous difficulties , ’ said Mr McNamara . |
| 8 | I think the police are doing a superb job |
| 9 | Incidentally , I hear the admission of one black member to the once all-white Shoal Creek Golf Club in Alabama , did not satisfy everyone because protesting T-shirts are doing a thriving business there . |
| 10 | I mean we are doing a certain times table |
| 11 | But more than that most want the satisfaction of feeling they are doing a worthwhile job well — and here the unions do n't seem to offer much help . |
| 12 | With this kind of budget you do n't have to ask whether the Catering Branch are doing a good , professional job — if it was n't they would be having to organise domestic famine relief drops ! |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it seems to me that more than a few Frenchwomen are carrying powerful foglamps , and are doing a good job of raging against the dying light . |
| 14 | As emphasised in an Equal Opportunities Commission report , just because people are doing a good job which they may have chosen to do , does not mean they should be ignored and left to cope alone : |
| 15 | But I think they are doing a good job . |
| 16 | Such research can only discover whether lawyers are doing a good or a bad job in terms of common sense criteria , themselves embedded in , if not derived from , the ideology of lawyers themselves . |
| 17 | The underlying philosophy is one of parents as consumers , who need more accurate information about whether the teacher and the school are doing a good job . |
| 18 | So often people say to us that they wish us well and that we are doing a good job . |
| 19 | They are doing a good job under difficult circumstances . |
| 20 | We are doing a good job but we must not be complacent . |
| 21 | The Police have received some unfair criticism but they are doing a good job . |
| 22 | And so I , I think the Americans are , are doing a good job , er but there are many many pitfalls ahead , and , and I hope that now that we 've got more troops there , that we will be er carefully consulted , er the whole time before any er drastic action is taken . |
| 23 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 24 | Teachers who on their own make the effort to design appropriate materials are doing a great and necessary job in the promotion of community languages , adding to the growing storehouses of available approaches : working groups for the creation of teaching materials can make this activity more efficient and exciting , especially when headteachers can be convinced of the value of such activities in the framework of the normal timetable of departmental meetings , perhaps using ‘ slack time ’ which becomes available during examination periods . |
| 25 | Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally . |
| 26 | The other announcement erm is er Dr has asked me to address some delinquents , no that 's not fair , some er hard working but misguided students erm tt er who are doing a political processes course , a sort of pale imitation of this course , erm probably find none of them are here today , let's , let's , let's , let's , let's b let's not be shy now , is erm is Ian here ? |
| 27 | Supermarkets and stores which open on the seventh day are doing a roaring trade . |
| 28 | I do n't think they are doing a brilliant job as they do n't have the experience . |
| 29 | Unashamedly blowing his own trumpet , he also considers that many of the people he selected for management roles in Esso are doing a better job than the people before them . |
| 30 | Frankly I do n't believe that households in which one parent spends all his waking moments either out of the house or refitting the patio doors or under the bonnet of a car are doing a better job than I am , where the kids are concerned , but I have n't got any statistics to prove it . |