Example sentences of "[prep] be do [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end something 's got ta be done to sort out that excessive pru proliferation . |
| 2 | Well I said , cos I said to her yesterday , it 's got ta be done has n't it ? |
| 3 | Leaping from bed to be done learns nothing of any depth . ’ |
| 4 | This may lead some health workers , families and older people themselves to believe that there is little to be done to improve the circumstances of people with care needs . |
| 5 | Much still needs to be done to improve inter-agency response . |
| 6 | ( For Olga 's thoughts on what needs to be done to improve British tennis , see next months Tennis World . ) |
| 7 | But a Spanish visitor once made her realise there was much to be done to improve the look of the University buildings . |
| 8 | Last , but by no means least , much still needs to be done to improve public attitudes and understanding , both to aid prevention of mental disorder , and to help the mentally handicapped overcome their disabilities and find a tolerable place in society . |
| 9 | But there is still much more to be done to improve the Barber 's image . |
| 10 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 11 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 12 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 13 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 14 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 15 | Most awkward edge cleaning had to be done using the crevice tool . |
| 16 | The testing of theories or , more accurately , hypotheses derived from theories , was to be done using principles of experimental design and statistical testing . |
| 17 | There is something unsatisfactory about this , and more work needs to be done to defend the account against complaints of this sort . |
| 18 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 19 | We can not be complacent , and a lot of hard canvassing needs to be done to regain lost passengers . |
| 20 | The complexity of what needed to be done to give the scheme a chance of success was pushed aside , and Sri Lanka seems likely to end up the poorer , with the poorest suffering most . |
| 21 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 22 | Further trials need to be done to resolve that uncertainty . |
| 23 | ‘ Much remains to be done to grasp the opportunities that will arise , but I believe that we have made real progress in starting to do just that . ’ |
| 24 | There may be a redundancy even when your company 's requirements for work of a particular kind to be done remain the same . |
| 25 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 26 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 27 | But how the ordering is to be done remains an open question . |
| 28 | ‘ Neil had the vision to see what needed to be done to carry Labour forward , he had the courage to take on the task , and he had the determination to see it through , ’ he added . |
| 29 | More needs to be done to popularise the arts as a focal attraction of regional life . |
| 30 | Similar studies need to be done to evaluate the role of the cholinergic nerves in the gastric response to intragastric ethanol . |