Example sentences of "doing be " in BNC.
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1 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
2 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
3 | are you just doing are you just doing one er sorry j er are you just doing one project a t a two term project ? |
4 | So essentially , what we 're going to be doing are going through er the lessons that are actually outlined in page eight and page nine of your booklet . |
5 | And they see the purpose for what Maria and Peter 's doing are n't they and they 're |
6 | Aethelred 's reasons for so doing are not made clear , but Wilfrid was head of a chain of monasteries which extended into Mercia ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 64 ) . |
7 | Yes , and , and sometimes of course this is , this , this becomes a conscious rationalization for what people are doing are n't they ? |
8 | So what the pollen cells are doing are investing in mating success . |
9 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
10 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
11 | Dad , but are you doing are recording all this ? |
12 | the ones were doing are , absolute walk in the pan |
13 | they then go back to their office and unfortunately a lot of what other people in the office are doing are taught |
14 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
15 | He said the traditional exercises I was doing were unimportant in comparison with the meditative disciplines I was experiencing whilst making music . |
16 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
17 | All that the Arse were doing were playing simple balls over the top of Fairclough & Newsome , for Wright & Campbell to run onto , and the defence could n't really cope . |
18 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
19 | But er the things that they were doing were just unbelievable . |
20 | There are many teachers , however , who feel daunted by the possibility of the work they are doing being ‘ tokenistic ’ and therefore feel unable to do anything . |
21 | While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money . |
22 | ‘ If you believe that what you are doing is right then you ca n't compromise . ’ |
23 | Unionists would move towards the Conservative Party , and all we would be doing is providing another cul-de-sac for the people of Northern Ireland . ’ |
24 | All they are doing is making a lot more money out of a lot more misery . ’ |
25 | Rather than recognise points about themselves that need changing , what they are doing is changing their partner for a new one . |
26 | ‘ All you 're doing is wasting petrol , ’ he said . |
27 | ‘ Wherever you find a group within society which feels that what it 's doing is seriously different from everyone else , then you 're likely to find initiation rites , ’ he said . |
28 | She 's a big , long sheep , and if you put a ram on her of equal proportions all you 're doing is stretching the ewe 's progeny through their back . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | I am in no position to judge whether what SHe is doing is right or wrong . ’ |