Example sentences of "what it [is] do " in BNC.

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1 Well I do n't understand what it is do n't know why you really needed it !
2 Yeah , it 's a girl now we know what it is do n't we ?
3 You , you do n't even know what it is do ya ?
4 The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent .
5 Although exercise will be working properly only if it is vigorous enough to cause some sweating and panting , you can check what it is doing to your heart , if you fear overstraining , by monitoring the pulse rate .
6 If the model is rotating , or apparently flying backwards , or you are in any doubt about what it is doing , apply some forward cyclic .
7 Now imagine your bird landing somewhere — think about where and what it is doing .
8 He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully .
9 The cat will see a bird and pursue it , to that extent knowing what it wants ; but it will not know why it is doing it , and to that extent what it is doing .
10 Harvard has a reputation as the premier medical school in North America , and the fact that it has chosen to introduce sweeping changes in its course is likely to make other schools take stock of what it is doing .
11 It is well known that many members of Parliament are among those who are deeply dissatisfied with Parliament 's ability to control the executive , or even to find out what it is doing .
12 In classical physics I can know both where an electron is and what it is doing .
13 His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is .
14 His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is .
15 For a classical particle we can know both its position and momentum , where it is and what it is doing .
16 The same sentence is now seen to do different things , and according to what it is doing , the answer is more or less suitable :
17 The presumption must be , after all , that the assembly knows what it is doing , not that it needs to be protected against itself .
18 ‘ I 'll tell you what it is doing there .
19 I deplore the recent attacks by Ministers and others on the association and what it is doing .
20 Similarly the anglers that can control their terminal tackle , and not only that , but know what it is doing and what they are trying to do with it , with a greater degree of accuracy and confidence , will be winners .
21 The appointment was defended by the Interior Minister , Guillermo Capobianco Rivera , who stressed Rico Toro 's military professionalism , and in answer to questions from the press President Jaime Paz Zamora stated that " the government knows what it is doing " .
22 You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there .
23 What it is doing is hoping that the college , our union 's future will be secure .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 ‘ I know what it 's doing , ’ he said .
26 And I 'm sick of seeing what it 's doing to Peter — ’ She stopped and took a breath .
27 Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here .
28 Erm , so , the , given any organisation should always be looking at what it 's been , it 's doing to see whether , what it 's doing , erm , it should continue to do , you know , whether the , whether the services is a defunct or whatever , or whether we could provide it in a , erm in the most up to date way , the most progressive way .
29 We 'd be the last people to see what it 's doing to us .
30 And what it 's doing to Daddy , I just do n't know . ’
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