Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would not , quite frankly , have involved you in this policy disagreement between us , Mike , had it been possible to avoid doing so . |
| 2 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 3 | Probably it had been foolish to try to do so . |
| 4 | But this may only be a reality for those who are adaptable in what they are prepared to consider and where they are willing to go to do it . |
| 5 | That means just cos you 're likely to cheat do n't assume that everyone else does . |
| 6 | The agency 's inspectors have the right to use information provided by its members to check suspicion of wrong-doing , and are likely to continue to do so . |
| 7 | They use it for official purposes and are likely to continue to do so for some considerable while . |
| 8 | Some of the 50 who win their cards are likely to have done so by surviving a sudden-death play-off : careers are launched , and sometimes sunk , on the accuracy of a three-foot putt on the 109th green . |
| 9 | Some of the 50 who win their cards are likely to have done so by surviving a sudden-death play-off : careers are launched , and sometimes sunk , on the accuracy of a three-foot putt on the 109th green . |
| 10 | As in the legal definition , the interactionist conception of crime also implicitly portrays it as something that ordinary people are likely to want to do . |
| 11 | It would have been great to have done . |
| 12 | The extent to which these approaches are complementary has to do with the relationship between competence and performance and is a matter of current debate . |
| 13 | And it adds : ‘ Richard Oster , of the Cookson engineering group , may have been happy to make do on £628,611 , a rise of only four per cent , as his company recorded a fall in profits of 65 per cent . ’ |
| 14 | How serious are you about being able to retire with some dignity and being able to continue doing the things you 've always wanted to er the things you 've been able to enjoy doing but you 'll have to give up . |
| 15 | I have been able to continue doing research , which I enjoy very much , and I think it 's worked out very well . |
| 16 | It was then that she said something which later I remembered and understood : ‘ I 'm sorry to have to do this to you , dear … |
| 17 | But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know . |
| 18 | What if something like this you know if I give this to Arthur and John and say er they just joined I give them this , this personal development plan , who should it put pressure on should do , yeah cos you should be going up to them and saying well I 'm supposed to have done you know X Y Y and they go ah yeah , and then they go up with these excuses yeah . |
| 19 | But , as I do n't , you 'll have to tell me what it is I 'm supposed to have done . ’ |
| 20 | I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven ! |
| 21 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 22 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 23 | I think also in those very tough times ahead I think it 's a very difficult decisions to be made about what services are provided erm , and what operation people are actually going to be able to have done and I wonder how much local people are gon na have a chance to say anything about that in the situation in which their health service their health authority is based so far away . |
| 24 | Nowhere else will be able to afford to do it , so let's not pretend that it 's not gon na affect those people outside . |
| 25 | If we could invest more in this sort of group then more families who 'd like to return to work would be able to afford to do so . |
| 26 | But dentists say if funding is cut they will no longer be able to afford to do NHS work . |
| 27 | So use your fingers write down bits and more and more you 'll be able to start doing it in your head then . |
| 28 | I 'm sure I was set up and this girl was exactly the sort of person they 'd be able to get to do it , because there was no sense in it otherwise . |
| 29 | Mr Beecham 's voice was stiff now as he replied , ‘ We have always acted for the house and I shall be happy to continue doing so . |
| 30 | It 's something which would be nice to have done . ’ |