Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , there are undercurrents of ‘ nastiness ’ about Docklands development which are doing its image no good at all . |
| 2 | I see that in American television now there are a lot of what I call reality-based shows which are doing that also . |
| 3 | But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole . |
| 4 | Yes there are services I know which are doing that , where |
| 5 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 6 | The Corporals then disappeared to the different section bars which were doing business all over the camp . |
| 7 | What is more , a technical standard for representing letters which uses Bézier curves does not depend on any characteristic of the machine which is doing the printing : the same set of curves can be used to drive a professional typesetter or a cheap laser-printer ( though most fonts have to include ‘ hints ’ which help coarser machines interpret the curves ) . |
| 8 | Siebe Plc paid £25m all told for two continental controls companies , Eberle GmbH , of Nuremberg , Germany , with annual turnover of £56m , and Schmidt Amaturen GmbH , Villach , Austria which is doing £12m a year . |
| 9 | It says Microsoft supplied the source code under a new standard contractual OEM pact with IBM , which is doing the work in Yorktown Heights , New York . |
| 10 | Now this long metal rod with the knob on the end which is doing God knows what damage to my pelvis is the gear-lever . |
| 11 | Not the unconscious part of the ego of course which is doing the repression , this is regarded as a separate agency . |
| 12 | Would my honourable friend er recognise that just up the River Thames from er the South Thames tech is the Surrey tech which is doing and excellent job with local industry in re-skilling particularly younger people and this partnership with industry , not just dependent on what the government does , but what industry itself does to try and help people get back into jobs with the new challenges that are coming from the difficulties that are presented by higher calibre needed particularly for school leavers and other and will he w would she welcome the Surrey tech 's initiative ? |
| 13 | It was forced to land on the Sedco 700 drilling rig , which is doing work for Shell in the East Shetland Basin . |
| 14 | The company had acquired the trappings of one which was doing very nicely . |
| 15 | The worst thing was having to climb that damned ladder to the roof of Flying Control in a howling gale and lashing rain , to see how far I could n't see across the air field and to estimate the strength of the wind which was doing its best to dislodge my desperate hold on the railing . |
| 16 | The South-East and the North-West were , in fact , doing worse than the traditional problem regions of Scotland , the North , and Wales , the last of which was doing very well . |
| 17 | Among the points she made were the need for care of children , the importance of supporting the NCH , which was doing such a wonderful job for children in need ; and the necessity of seeking out the fathers who abandon their children and making them pay maintenance . |
| 18 | Dora held out Iris 's tooth-mug , which was doing duty as a wine-glass . |
| 19 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |
| 20 | She 'd taken to having an early morning swim to strengthen her ankle , which was doing fine . |
| 21 | and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . |
| 22 | What are doing ? |
| 23 | The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it . |
| 24 | What are doing ? |
| 25 | What are doing with the people you work with then ? |
| 26 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |
| 27 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 28 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 29 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 30 | ‘ We were also stopped and interrogated by a para-military vigilante force who again wanted to know who we were and what were doing . ’ |