Example sentences of "[be] [adv] do is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what they 're not doing is spending loads of money on hospitals and houses and schools and raising the general living standards , they 're spending it all on heavy industry and armaments . |
| 2 | ‘ What we 're not doing is offering the client an audit on a regular basis , ’ said , ‘ although whether it will form the catalyst for more regular contact is another matter . ’ |
| 3 | There 's a lot of things we 're not doing is n't there at the moment ? |
| 4 | Yeah but the only thing you 're really doing is , is taking away this nominal erm exploitive relationship , you 're still gon na be exploiting the of existing |
| 5 | And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase . |
| 6 | What we 're here to do is |
| 7 | In addition what we 're actually doing is we 're building in this new fin financial planning guide which gives you the opportunity to just look at where you are just now and where you want to do in the future . |
| 8 | What they 're actually doing is they 're affirming to themselves they 're verbalising the performance improvement or the performance they 're going to give . |
| 9 | What we 're actually doing is checking the firing pin is n't broken and looking down the barrel to make sure it 's not blocked and is properly oiled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But what you are really doing is finding the creature , for it is , in a mathematical sense , already sitting in its own place in the genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 12 | Tom Kalinske , president of Sega US , adds : ‘ All we are really doing is interpreting what one sees in the world today and making some form of game play out of it . |
| 13 | What they are now doing is compromising , in this half-baked manner , by raising the ante to 70 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not a lover of the verbal reasoning test , ’ he goes on , ‘ But what we are now doing is abandoning one system when we have n't perfected its replacement . |
| 15 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 16 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |
| 17 | That other people think the job has been well done is far more important to him , he says , than the fact that it was done by him . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it is generally the case that what the Catholics were actually doing is far less important in understanding the actions of the Protestants than Protestant beliefs about what Catholics were doing . |
| 19 | The text handling is relatively slow and any major keying-in is best done is a suitable application and them imported . |
| 20 | Not because it 's feeding everyone , if you look closely , what it 's probably doing is checking how much food is in their gullets . |
| 21 | And what it 's actually to do is is to do with this National Standards and Indicators that have been written for the careers service . |
| 22 | But what it 's actually doing is prompting management to think . |