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The phrase "are driven to do" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a strong motivation or compulsion to take a specific action.
Example: "Many people are driven to do their best when faced with challenges in their careers."
Alternatives: "are compelled to do" or "are motivated to do".
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Generally, people are driven to do pretty constructive things.
"Those people who are driven to do it and have the gifts to be able to should be encouraged.
Dark Corners is full of characters who seem, on the surface, to be "normal", but who are driven to do "abnormal" things.
I've been teaching political theory at Tsinghua University here since 2004 and I've found that almost all of my students are driven to do good for society.
Comically, adults in Haddon's novel try not to swear but are driven to do so by Christopher's innocent, pedantic pursuit of truth.
We are umbraphiles: having once stood in the umbra, the Moon's shadow, during a solar eclipse, we are driven to do so again and again, whenever the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun.
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I am driven to do the things.
He was driven to do the right thing".
"Everyone's driven to do something quickly," Mr. Miller said.
But making art is nevertheless what he must do, what he is driven to do.
"They're driven to do things, because the Yankees and Red Sox drive that league".
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