Example sentences of "doing be " in BNC.
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| 31 | For what you cowardly heroes are doing is n't helping Adolf Hitler . |
| 32 | What you are doing is feeling the music so deeply that you are playing a 5/4 bar . |
| 33 | He said of Lynda Chalker , Foreign Office Minister responsible for foreign aid programmes : ‘ All she is doing is giving these poor people the chance to breed more children who will suffer the same horrible fate as their parents — death by starvation . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ The business case for what we are doing is obvious , ’ says Hume , calculating that it costs an average of between £10,000 and £15,000 to recruit and train a replacement for every female member of staff who leaves . |
| 35 | ‘ What we should be doing is spending more money preparing people for creative leisure , ’ said Robyn . |
| 36 | Of course the thing really worth doing is the thing that is too difficult — ’ |
| 37 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 38 | ‘ But , in reality … what we are doing is serving our own best interests … . |
| 39 | And yet all you are doing is reading a book . |
| 40 | What they are now doing is compromising , in this half-baked manner , by raising the ante to 70 . |
| 41 | Of course , there are one or two exceptions to the no talking or moving yourself ‘ rule ’ : do speak up if something your partner is doing is hurting , or if you feel cold or uncomfortable in any way . |
| 42 | Being open and honest about what you are thinking , how you are feeling and why you are doing whatever you are doing is deemed to be efficient and helpful because otherwise people waste precious time and energy trying to ‘ second guess ’ what you are up to . |
| 43 | All it is doing is assembling them into a package . |
| 44 | Even when we do become more aware , how do we know whether what we are doing is ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ ? |
| 45 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 46 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 47 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 48 | What you are doing is giving away many of your best leaders . |
| 49 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 50 | What he is doing is laying the groundwork for the decisive moment and preparing his getaway . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 ’ . |
| 53 | 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 . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | I know what I 'm doing is so wrong . |
| 58 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 59 | 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 . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ 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 . |