Example sentences of "do be [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 2 | All it will do is alienate a lot of women who are n't radical feminists , and open us up to ridicule from our enemies . |
| 3 | Yeah well what you 've got ta do is put a bowl of vinegar down there . |
| 4 | The best we can do is to establish a habit of " challenge " since this allows the old idea to continue but at the same time attaches some doubt and dissatisfaction to it . |
| 5 | The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred . |
| 6 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 7 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 8 | The one and only good thing that fluoridation has done is to provide an illustration of the urgent need for legislation to prevent the use of public money , the machinery of government , and the time of public servants for promoting private interests at the public 's expense . |
| 9 | Consider in this light the following modification to one of the other examples given above ; all we have done is to add a group of things ( " kinds of images " ) of which the relevant phrase can be treated as a part : There are various kinds of images which can be explored . |
| 10 | All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs . |
| 11 | All she 'd done was to make a bit of polite conversation ! |
| 12 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 13 | She decided that the link with Bert was unlikely to hold Jasper back from one of his binges ; that she would have to sit it out ; that Bert was almost certainly going after Pat ; that the best thing she could do was to organise a Congress of the C.C.U. for as soon as possible . |
| 14 | What she would do was write a note of apology , giving her name and address and telephone number , and secure it behind one of the Bentley 's windscreen wipers . |
| 15 | Eventually , however , they concluded that the best the Ministry could do was to prohibit a reduction of charges , though this limited only the most flagrant abuses . |
| 16 | The only thing she could do was to assume an air of indifference . |
| 17 | What I am seeking to do is to outline a model of language use . |
| 18 | Best thing to do is do a bit of gardening then go in and bake the bread . |
| 19 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |
| 20 | ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more . |
| 21 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 22 | " Rain occurs when cold and warm fronts meet and all you need to do is create a source of low temperature to generate precipitation " . |
| 23 | Working under the not unreasonable assumption that since all its saloons are equally good to drive , size does matter , the last thing it wants to do is create a miracle of packaging at the expense of an ostensibly bigger model . |
| 24 | The first thing to do is to find a pair of old jeans or other piece of favourite clothing that is too tight and use this as a measure for making progress . |
| 25 | So what we 're trying to do is get a picture of , okay , what 's our , our best guess scenario , what the whole year 's gon na look like . |
| 26 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 27 | So what I 'd like you to do if you have n't got some paper there 's stacks of paper here and what I 'd like you to do is grab a piece of paper and write down what I 'm going to tell you . |
| 28 | What the book does attempt to do is to provide a framework of problems and ideas , exploring major themes . |
| 29 | ‘ What we 're trying to do is have a piece of research that is so novel and is so placeable within industry that they ca n't really say no . |
| 30 | In James Watson 's account ( 1970 ) of the discovery of the structure of DNA — where the non-scientist expects to find strictly-controlled and logically-sequenced reasoning — there is an element of play : ‘ All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play ’ ( ibid . |