Example sentences of "doing is " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ If you believe that what you are doing is right then you ca n't compromise . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | All they are doing is making a lot more money out of a lot more misery . ’ |
| 5 | Rather than recognise points about themselves that need changing , what they are doing is changing their partner for a new one . |
| 6 | ‘ All you 're doing is wasting petrol , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I am in no position to judge whether what SHe is doing is right or wrong . ’ |
| 11 | For what you cowardly heroes are doing is n't helping Adolf Hitler . |
| 12 | What you are doing is feeling the music so deeply that you are playing a 5/4 bar . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ What we should be doing is spending more money preparing people for creative leisure , ’ said Robyn . |
| 16 | Of course the thing really worth doing is the thing that is too difficult — ’ |
| 17 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 18 | ‘ But , in reality … what we are doing is serving our own best interests … . |
| 19 | And yet all you are doing is reading a book . |
| 20 | What they are now doing is compromising , in this half-baked manner , by raising the ante to 70 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All it is doing is assembling them into a package . |
| 24 | Even when we do become more aware , how do we know whether what we are doing is ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | What you are doing is giving away many of your best leaders . |
| 29 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 30 | What he is doing is laying the groundwork for the decisive moment and preparing his getaway . |