Example sentences of "doing [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What you are doing is giving away many of your best leaders . |
| 32 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 33 | What he is doing is laying the groundwork for the decisive moment and preparing his getaway . |
| 34 | I look at people like Harry Connick Jr. , and what he 's doing is very appealing , but that bypasses rock altogether and there is something fresh and very ‘ adult ’ about it . |
| 35 | If you play each note of the Pentatonic scale followed by a note a third higher ( when ascending ) or a third lower ( when descending ) , what you are in fact doing is playing ‘ third interval skips ’ . |
| 36 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I respect the fact that The Jam can touch people and what they 're doing is an attempt to be ‘ real ’ — no myth or far-fetched fantasy — and it 's for real people , not people who follow trends . |
| 38 | It would appear that when ARA representatives speak of ‘ black leadership of the anti-racist struggle ’ , what they are really doing is asserting their right , as self-appointed ‘ leaders ’ , to dictate to ordinary black and white anti-racists . |
| 39 | What they are doing is boosting their 1992 earnings at the expense of their income in 1993 when the Clinton government will be in power and hitting them with hugely increased tax bills . |
| 40 | I know what I 'm doing is so wrong . |
| 41 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 42 | So I 'm uncomfortable , but in the positive sense that I did n't go to no acting school , so all I 'm doing is being myself . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ If the tube is cut then what the doctors are doing is cutting the thread of life , ’ James Munby QC , representing the Official Solicitor told the court yesterday . |
| 44 | What we will be doing is not filling vacancies . ’ |
| 45 | Whatever they 're doing is by their own choice . ’ |
| 46 | You may not have anything of significance which you can discover , but you should at least give some thought to it ; for what we are doing is to clear through , in order to clear away , some of the accumulated emotional jumble of the years . |
| 47 | It would be easy to caricature Paul 's teaching on work , but what he is doing is to challenge at two levels . |
| 48 | What the professional is doing is offering a framework within which parents can learn skills to solve their own problems . |
| 49 | I have tried to suggest that what Lévi-Strauss is doing is a form of discourse analysis that both attempts to articulate the rules governing the formation of the type of discourse and interpret the ‘ meanings ’ of utterances within the particular discourse . |
| 50 | What we will be doing is to generate extra business by boosting customer confidence . |
| 51 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 52 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 53 | We 're not putting ourselves in that position — all we 're doing is selling music . ’ |
| 54 | We have to persuade the pupils that what they are doing is worthwhile — even when we doubt it ourselves . |
| 55 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 56 | What I 'm doing is n't good enough . |
| 57 | Accurate observation of what a person is doing is not easy . |
| 58 | Little attention is paid to the input side as distinct from the output side , the sensory information and feed-back which the operator is using to control what he is doing is neglected . |
| 59 | The result of so doing is the sad and mischievous error of seeing little or no moral difference between the painless killing of chickens and that of unwanted children . |
| 60 | At the press conference in Paris on Wednesday , Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates said , ‘ SAP will be one company with whom we will be working very closely , because the client-server work they are doing is leadership work . ’ |