Example sentences of "[modal v] do [is] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we must do is to distinguish between bogus and genuine refugees . |
| 2 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 3 | Em , I mean that 's good at way I am I think , that what we ought to do is to seek to erm , suggest to the Commission that York should take more of the Commission 's total workload , I E to erm take some work from Coventry , and possibly also do a compensating transfer between London and Coventry . |
| 4 | All eager students need do is to plough through its well-presented 600 pages and they will emerge as masters too . |
| 5 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 6 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 7 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 8 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 9 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 10 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 11 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |