Example sentences of "of doing [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of immediate decisions such as doctors may be called upon to make , the concept of doing what the judge called ‘ preserving the prospect of an informed decision ’ is wholly inapposite . |
| 2 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 3 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 4 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 5 | Instead of doing it a bit at a time , we can just multiply it . |
| 6 | I 'm sure that e e if there is an easy way of doing it the Conservatives would have found out and done it . |
| 7 | Erm , yes I think , I think , you know , immediately you 're thinking of doing it the branches and obviously you 're running po , pretty big in |
| 8 | When Celtic equalised , bringing about a result that caused Aberdeen to lose ground in the championship race , there was that involuntary twitching movement , spreading from Aitken 's head to his toes , which signals that he is on the verge of doing someone a mischief unless he gets a satisfactory explanation in a very short space of time . |