Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] do it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is does it actually happen ? |
| 2 | He adds : ‘ My advice is to do it now . |
| 3 | After our day guitar shopping with the Senseless Things we figured the sensible thing was to do it again , but this time with a dedicated bass angle . |
| 4 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 5 | The trick is to do it little and often — notice what they do in the fast food chains , ’ Davies says . |
| 6 | ‘ At first we tried breeze blocks , ’ Sally explains , ‘ but it very quickly occurred to us that the only way was to do it properly , using original bricks . ’ |
| 7 | The skilful presenter is doing it effortlessly . |