Example sentences of "[be] doing [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What we should be doing is spending more money preparing people for creative leisure , ’ said Robyn . |
| 3 | What we will be doing is not filling vacancies . ’ |
| 4 | What we will be doing is to generate extra business by boosting customer confidence . |
| 5 | But one thing Nigel wo n't be doing is selling his house again . |
| 6 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 7 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 8 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 9 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 10 | But one thing Nigel wo n't be doing is selling his house again . |
| 11 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 12 | What what we should be doing is make s making sure that we have er the negatives of all those drawings that we 've produced over the last ten or fifteen years , that we may need to use again . |
| 13 | Erm and I I I think again like , what should erm we should be doing is more of the developmental , preventive type of work . |
| 14 | " What these so-called scientists should be doing is to study effects . |
| 15 | And all everybody else seems to be doing is trying to stop me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What I 'd like to be doing is putting you over my knee and giving you the spanking you heartily deserve , ’ he said grimly . |
| 17 | When we are told there is a shortage of floppy disks , what they ought to be doing is sending out working printing saving and using versions of their programs that we can load 10–20 times then said software will commit Hari Kari . |
| 18 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 19 | I do n't I do n't believe it is erm at the mo well earlier this week a report was published by the National Commission on Education which was er an independent erm Commission that was set up erm and they they 've said that basically what we need to be doing is t if we 're trying to raise standards is to keep the idea of having an all graduate profess profession followed up by high quality for train training for teachers once they 've actually started work . |
| 20 | Although the correspondence between the use of Creole and the description of the customer 's actions is not perfect , what the narrator seems to be doing is creating a persona for his character " the difficult customer " by linking him to Creole . |
| 21 | Okay what we 're going to be doing is estimating a demand function so we can specify the textile consumption as a function of real incomes per capita and also relative prices , alright . |
| 22 | What we are going to be doing is trying to explain that series , right that er consumption series . |
| 23 | But in fact what they should be doing is planning effort into things which underpin the fabric of society and to underpin families |
| 24 | So we would hope that by releasing that article fourteen direction at that stage , all we would really be doing is making it possible for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetus from real life applications within the general locations specified in the structure plan . |
| 25 | One of the things I will be doing is going round is just checking out the learning goals . |
| 26 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
| 27 | What he might be doing is to actually seek to increase the proportion of our very vulnerable population into the means testing category and that what he 's got to watch is that he does n't end up in a position whereby defining health care in one way and social care very carefully . |
| 28 | All they should be doing is making themselves aware of the symptoms . |
| 29 | All they should be doing is making themselves aware of the symptoms . |
| 30 | ‘ To me , the whole starting issue is a red herring what we should be doing is looking at bringing the control of racing into the 20th century . ’ |