Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you have spent a day at the stadium , the one thing you do n't need is to spend an evening at the theatre . |
| 2 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 3 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 4 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 5 | What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own , and give us his instruction for testing it . |
| 6 | What they will do is leave an envelope for you in one of the lockers at the airport . |
| 7 | What it does n't do is offer an escape route to a Chancellor who can see public borrowing spiralling out of control yet can not afford to increase taxes substantially to keep the public spending deficit under some sort of control . |
| 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 | What he 's done is stuffed an order through for a six three O eight . |
| 10 | The approach we have adopted is to provide an overview of current practice , and to reinforce this with examples from as wide a spectrum of opinion as possible . |
| 11 | Having decided on the incidence assumptions , the procedure adopted is to select an indicator of the effective tax liability or benefit , which is then used to allocate taxes and expenditure . |
| 12 | Ail that is needed is to throw an oncoming punch off course . |
| 13 | One way of ensuring that such misinterpretation does not occur is to adopt an approach to " experience " which is not so tied to " inwardness " . |
| 14 | To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment . |
| 15 | All you have to do is send an email message |
| 16 | All you have to do is send an e-mail message |
| 17 | But it 's a bit grim if all you want to do is fit an upgrade board . |
| 18 | what we really need to do is keep an eye , if it looks like you keep leaking sugar out , |
| 19 | All you got to do is keep an eye open and watch the break lights . |
| 20 | What the futures market is trying to do is to get an unbiased estimate of 1rs 2 the spot interest rate over period 2 . |
| 21 | As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure . |
| 22 | When you find a place that is satisfactory , though , the first thing to do is to make an offer for it to the estate agent . |
| 23 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
| 24 | And all you have to do is name an NME writer from Lancashire . |
| 25 | Having loaded your game for the very first time , the last thing you want to do is read an instruction sheet this size . |
| 26 | What I 'd like to do is have an industry day then and then a parent 's invitation to see what the kids had done and a quick feedback . |
| 27 | Essentially , what the firm is doing is to reap an additional return on the capital already invested at home in developing the product by transferring its know-how across frontiers . |
| 28 | One of this aims is to develop an understanding of both in which they are seen as essential to one another . |
| 29 | So what I suggest you do is pay an additional three pounds which means that that is now covered for up to five thousand pounds regardless of it 's weight . |
| 30 | To advise is to give an opinion about what another person should do , and should be avoided . |