Example sentences of "[vb pp] to do [is] " in BNC.

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1 The most she is expected to do is use slightly more positive words about Britain 's aims .
2 ] The details of what the supplier is expected to do is not stated in the contract but is decided later by the purchaser .
3 Well , what we 've decided to do is er know what to do and er this , this is the gang this is maybe exaggerated if you do n't have three people on the bottom if you get Any thing else ?
4 ‘ One of the biggest jobs we have got to do is to pass on what we have learned to the professions , ’ says Ms Reeves .
5 All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly .
6 — All you 've got to do is use your brains , be one step ahead of the opposition .
7 Now , what you 've got to do is to be wily .
8 All we 've got to do is to take his fingerprints and compare them with the beauties on this envelope .
9 First thing you 've got to do is inform CID about the chocolates and cigarettes that had been stolen .
10 Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand .
11 ‘ All you 've got to do is sign here ! ’
12 All you 've got to do is answer one incredibly simple Nirvana-related question :
13 ‘ Now all you 've got to do is produce the paper . ’
14 What we 've got to do is actually make them respect us .
15 Now what you 've got to do is use the correct words and phrases and these are finally
16 All you 've got to do is concentrate on getting out quick and running your own thing , not looking at the next guy .
17 Do n't too , because it 's a very difficult thing to do , attractive though it looks when , instead of producing anything of between sixty and eighty thousand words , all you have got to do is to produce , say , as few as one thousand .
18 What you 've got to do is reserve your concentration for those particular times when it 's a particular need .
19 Then all you 've got to do is add the rhythm .
20 you 're you 're not concentrating so you need to concentrate a bit on making sure that you finish off like you know somebody 's somebody 's passed to you 're right in front of the goal all you 've got to do is tap it in and you think , Oh anyone could do this which foot should I no problem
21 ROS : All we 've got to do is make our report and that 'll be that .
22 " All we 've got to do is convince ourselves that no matter what happens today we 're going to kill a seladang bull for the Sherman Field Museum .
23 So effectively you 've had that information all you 've actually got to do is to make sure that the text within the general notes of the
24 What we 've got to do is say , look , within the terms of the contract
25 And I thought to myself if all I 've got to do is put my signature on this piece of paper and without actually paying any money down , any cash down at all , I can a actually walk out of the shop carrying the video recorder .
26 Now , what you 've got to do is to think well if you 've got a mortgage over er I would n't think you 'd consider this if your mortgage was under twenty thousand , it 's not such a big
27 It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four .
28 All you 've got to do is chat to him about Tuscany and then twist the conversation around so you can slide in a few of my questions . ’
29 So what we 've got to do is try and filter out that so that the incidents go straight through to the incident rooms , rather than being queued behind everybody who just wants to speak to the caretaker , to talk about the hinges that 's just normally .
30 What we 've got to do is to find out . "
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