Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 2 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 3 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 4 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 5 | I beat a heavy retreat : what I did not want to do was find out what the locals were like . |
| 6 | What Soviet aid , the first consignments of which began to reach Spain in October 1936 , was emphatically not intended to do was advance the cause of social revolution in Republican Spain . |
| 7 | Yet whatever they did with their talents , the one thing , notoriously , which wealthy men in the Middle Ages were not permitted to do was to lend their money at interest . |
| 8 | The one thing I am not going to do is look remotely fazed or ruffled . |
| 9 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 10 | The reason why the doing what a man is already bound to do is no consideration , is not only because such a consideration is in judgment of law of no value , but because a man can hardly be allowed to say that the prior legal obligation was not his determining motive . |
| 11 | If you 're gon na separate chemically , say for example , you produced erm an organic acid which is optically active the things you would normally have to do is to use a base to make the salt of , you know , you make the two optically salt and then separate them by a thing such as fractional crystallisation and then we generate the acid afterwards very very tricky ! |
| 12 | Well as example of the kind of thing that we 've just finished doing is we 've run a course for local school teachers from East and West Sussex on using electronics in schools . |
| 13 | All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting . |
| 14 | ‘ What we can not afford to do is to sacrifice our core investment programme in Chemicals which is so important to the long-term future . ’ |
| 15 | What I 'd most like to do is go to the court to listen to what 's happening in the trial , but … . ’ |
| 16 | All that such devices could ever hope to do was to stave off the exercise of French sovereignty . |
| 17 | All I ever wanted to do was kill a copper |
| 18 | John said gratefully , ‘ All I ever wanted to do was help people . ’ |
| 19 | The only thing she ever refused to do was to model . |
| 20 | One thing he always wanted to do was to improve the lot of all sports players , and the Tetley deal , which includes a large element that goes directly to members of the England team , was the last one the company was involved with before he died . |
| 21 | What this motion quite clearly seeks to do is to widen debate at our Apex section conference . |
| 22 | What you also need to do is an annual cashflow projection , which will show the periods when you are likely to have a lot of bills coming in and how long you are likely to have in between to put money aside for the tough months . |
| 23 | What I do n't really want to do is to sign you off sick long term , without really knowing I mean |
| 24 | What you really want to do is to get together through to there do n't you ? |
| 25 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |
| 26 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 27 | I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions . |
| 28 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 29 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 30 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |