Example sentences of "[conj] be doing " in BNC.
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1 | If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much . |
2 | where the goods are perishable or are doing considerable damage to the land and it is impossible to communicate speedily enough with the occupier or his agent ) . |
3 | Yeah I mean the part about the er about the savings erm if you 'd 've done or were doing a complete fact find that , that would come up anyway would n't it ? |
4 | Shame at what one has done , or is doing , may cause someone to cover his or her vice with the appearance of holiness : this , I suppose , is what is meant by giving homage or paying tribute , to virtue . |
5 | So was that what Johnny had done , fifty years ago ; or was doing now , depending on which way you looked at it ? |
6 | ‘ So are heaps of other traps , but they 're used , more 's the pity , on poor animals that are doing no wrong . |
7 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
8 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
9 | I have seen ACE schemes that are doing very good work but are more or less driven out of the place they are in because people did n't like their faces , or for other reasons . |
10 | This would allow the identification of implants that are doing badly and would allow individual units to compare their performance with national figures . |
11 | the clothes that are doing that . |
12 | It 's Garrimpos like this that are doing the damage . |
13 | Will it be me and Dave that are doing the interviews then , cos he 'll be doing the what is it the race relations side and no doubt I 'll be doing the |
14 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |
15 | Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah ! |
16 | He actually thinks it 's Marks and Sparks that are doing it . |
17 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
18 | On the other hand , erm quite a number are supporting the troops that are doing the fighting on our behalf , so it 's up to you ; it 's your comments that we want — Oxford , three double one , one double one , the lines are open and do please call in now . |
19 | I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints . |
20 | Because the , we ca n't put all of you into , that 're doing advocacy into one small group session , you may find yourselves with a different tutor , or at a different time , to when you would normally have your small group session . |
21 | He was really getting to her , and it was n't only the accusations he was flinging at her that were doing the damage . |
22 | On the basis that a lot of the big houses that were doing holiday accommodation and so on , er have have already been converted and this is our experience , so on that basis we have taken a reduced figure for conversions and that is basically the reasoning behind it . |
23 | We have er found that to be the case there is a downward trend , but I do make the point , and I did make the point to the inspectors notwithstanding that , all of our respecting officers bar those that were doing the training of course do produce a higher work output per individual than most of our peers up and down the country and we have statis statistical evidence to support that . |
24 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
25 | said it was their lot , their friends that were doing it Chris , we did n't say they were going . |
26 | I edge back to the tent , I feel lonely , desperately lonely , and it 's not just being alone that is doing it . |
27 | They do not , however , deal with a phenomenon that is doing as much as anything to undermine the profitability of televised baseball : the rise of two cable superstations , Ted Turner 's WTBS and the Tribune Group 's WGN . |
28 | Prepared by London-based Data Logic Ltd — the company that is doing the design and development of CICS/6000 for IBM — ‘ Open Enterprise Transaction Processing : integrating the Tuxedo System with Mainframe CICS ’ describes several design approaches for achieving co-existence . |
29 | F S Civilis , a marine scientist at the UN 's Mediterranean Action Plan based in Athens , thinks it is not so much the oil spillage as the sewage from the coastal cities that is doing the most damage , with consequent algal growth killing off marine organisms . |
30 | somebody that is doing it as a business , what sort of money are they looking to ? |