Example sentences of "doing [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’ |
| 2 | That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today . |
| 3 | In contrast , adults are expected to assume independence for maintaining a safe environment and are involved in doing so in the home , at work , at play and while travelling . |
| 4 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 5 | The situation as it then existed was such that , given a free hand , the consultant anaesthetist in charge of the unit would unhesitatingly have administered a blood transfusion , but felt inhibited from doing so in the light of Miss T. 's expressed wishes . |
| 6 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 7 | She 's only shopping today because of a family crisis stopped her doing so in the week . |
| 8 | I says , what was she doing down in the shop the other day ? |
| 9 | He screwed his eyes tightly shut and tried not to imagine what they were doing together in the room with the shuttered window . |
| 10 | It is clearly necessary to find a unified and consistent explanation of all these phenomena and by doing so to find ways of doing better in the future on all three points . |
| 11 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 12 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 13 | Burmans are wanting to go into business more — a little group of Burmese businessmen have formed an industrial corporation ; young Burmans are doing well in the petrol and kerosene retail trade . |
| 14 | ‘ If teams are doing well in the League , Cups and Europe then they are forced to play so many games . |
| 15 | So both United and Town doing well in the league … in the cup success too … |
| 16 | Most individual actors do not rely upon their own judgment of whether they are doing well in the action , but refer to certain members whose real or even fancied reactions are taken as the expression of binding judgments of propriety . |
| 17 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 18 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 19 | Threats by the Labour party to renationalise privatised firms or to introduce ‘ social ownership ’ dented the share prices of privatised companies , whenever the Labour party appeared to be doing well in the opinion polls prior to the 1987 election . |
| 20 | But while Daisy and Rose were gossiping in the downstairs pantry , does anybody really doubt what Lord Bellamy was doing upstairs in the drawing room ? |
| 21 | And it 's something which we 're doing again in the future . |