Example sentences of "[prep] doing be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the stance of doing is concerned with acting upon those phenomena to bring about change , although the capacity to react or respond to phenomena may be a precondition of successful action in some cases , for example in the diagnosis of human problems and situations , as Ryan ( 1984 ) points out in relation to medicine . |
| 2 | We can say that the purpose of knowing is truth ( however conceived ) and that the purpose of doing is effectiveness ( Horner 1985 ) . |
| 3 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 4 | However , what we can do immediately and are in the process of doing is to introduce a statutory instrument to increase the grant level to 90 per cent . |
| 5 | Well the quickest way of doing is that those officers who are remaining in office erm could be voted back into office and then we can have a vote on on the others those that are unopposed as it were . |
| 6 | P O A by the way , another thing I 'm thinking of doing is saying , if you want a net price enter in there , it has to come through a manager or |
| 7 | I think that what what she is in danger of doing is cutting across what the District Council 's doing , we , er and in East Hertfordshire we are running at a , a composting scheme in conjunction with the County at and I , I , I understand that looks to be very promising . |
| 8 | What we are in the business of doing is providing people with houses who are in housing need . |
| 9 | Now all I can think of doing is pushing it , you can push the turner things into chips then you 've only got to chop them one way if you see what I mean , like erm , well is it worth these doing anything else ? |
| 10 | Erm what I 'm thinking of doing is disconnecting the pipe there , and running it through that way . |
| 11 | eh ? what I was thinking of doing was getting a , have a go aye you know builders merchant , pick up some plaster if its a wet day and start doing some plastering in there |
| 12 | Absolutely , yes , I mean , I followed an entirely erm conventional format for the agenda here , I mean we , do we have a , all I was thinking of doing was checking whether these minutes are a true representation of last week , and if they are , we 'll press on to matters arising , yes ? |
| 13 | okay I think what we might think about doing is maybe just having a meeting for an hour one evening on that one subject |
| 14 | Yeah now that 's , that 's probably worth mentioning to Dave because I think one of the things he was talking about doing was instead of one of the tests or something making people hand in either some sort of lab book or some sort of record of the practical so far this term erm |
| 15 | Of course the thing really worth doing is the thing that is too difficult — ’ |
| 16 | You 've got eleven people you need four groups you do n't have four groups it 's not worth doing is it ? |
| 17 | Oh , yes , but they 're going on that 's to sake of free , at the moment so the last thing that they 're interested in doing is talking to me about if I know what I 'm doing . |
| 18 | Erm , so we 've , what we , we were looking at doing is trying to create an action plan using those two areas each time to create strengths and the other will slot together |