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 . ’
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