Example sentences of "doing [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If doing well is no protection , the incentive to avoid doing badly is weak ’ . |
| 2 | What I enjoyed doing most was having a laugh . |
| 3 | So what we 're doing effectively is seeing how many features we recognize in our in our er example image . |
| 4 | The causes of marginalisation both in Europe and the Third World , the nature of the actions necessary to overcome it and the implications for industrial society in doing so are as yet poorly understood . |
| 5 | This seems to suggest that the policy of the 1974 Act is the recognition that there is a need for industrial waste to be disposed of , and the companies doing so are providing a much needed service , but such operations ought to be closely controlled to ensure that any interference on the surrounding locality is minimal . |
| 6 | While New Zealand , Australia and the West Indies are thought to be ready to back the TCCB 's bid , the chances of South Africa and Zimbabwe doing so are remote . |
| 7 | The results of not doing so are all too obvious . |
| 8 | It is far from surprising that Mr Llambias stresses the importance of using an intermediary , but his reasons for doing so are cogent . |
| 9 | In Chapter Two it was noted that although presidents face many difficulties in imposing their will on the American political system their chances of doing so are rather greater in foreign and defence policy than in domestic affairs . |
| 10 | Even if it were possible to draw such a distinction satisfactorily , the advantages of doing so are at the moment not at all clear . |
| 11 | The reasons for doing so are twofold . |
| 12 | My reasons for doing so are twofold . |
| 13 | This is not to imply that they are exceeding their disciplinary mandate in examining topics which might be said to belong to some other discipline ; simply that their interests in doing so are different . |
| 14 | As yet their methods of doing so are ill-defined . |
| 15 | The time limits for doing so are not later than 14 days after the action appears in the Warned List in London , or the lodging of the Certificate of Readiness outside London . |
| 16 | 1.58 It is not enough for the defendant to argue that he denies liability or denies a conviction in his defence ; he must also show that his grounds for doing so are sufficiently strong to put the plaintiff at risk of either complete or substantial failure at trial or that , on the face of it , the plaintiff 's claim is not worth very much even on full liability . |
| 17 | The arguments against doing so are that : |
| 18 | The signs that it is doing so are around you in ways which were unimaginable before prices were ‘ liberalised ’ two years ago . |
| 19 | Their reasons for doing so are obviously partially speculative and partially a result of ewe hoggs now being eligible for subsidy . ’ |
| 20 | Face reality , even when doing so is painful . |
| 21 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 22 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 23 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 24 | However , as Figure 6.41 shows , the space for these uses has been won often by removing cars to off-street parking areas , yet the opportunity for doing so is strictly limited by the availability of existing breaks in the facades of the buildings . |
| 25 | The only possible result of doing so is to discover mistakes that it is too late to correct . |
| 26 | The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance , and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures . |
| 27 | The purpose in doing so is to examine how signs can , in psychological and linguistic terms , actually form part of the cognitive system . |
| 28 | One good reason for not doing so is that ‘ grandmother cell ’ models have real difficulty in explaining how our visual systems cope with novel input . |
| 29 | In contrast , a categorical imperative bids me , as a rational being , do such and such , whatever my desires may happen to be , because doing so is essential to living up to my status as a rational being . |
| 30 | The objective in doing so is to identify their ‘ true ’ nature or ideal character and distinguish or highlight the corrupt forms which have entered modern political consciousness as a result of rationalistic errors . |