Example sentences of "do be [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 2 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 3 | Those negotiations are a matter for the liquidator and shareholders , and the question of what the court should do is a matter for the court and the parties before it , not the Government . |
| 4 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 5 | Another reason for norm-referenced tests not providing a description of what a pupil knows and can do is the lack of clear specification of learning objectives , at least as far as the formulation of pupil performance on the test is concerned . |
| 6 | What should be done is the level of housing allocated to Selby should be assessed in terms of whether it can be satisfactorily accommodated , and if it ca n't then it should n't be allocated . |
| 7 | How this is done is the process of pattern formation . |
| 8 | ‘ They thought that what we had done was an example of how a test should be made . |
| 9 | The nub of the technical job to be done was the control of land use . |
| 10 | Whatever skills are needed , complete mental concentration is not one , and the effect of having many different tasks to do is a dispersal of the housewife 's attention in many different directions . |
| 11 | All you wan na to do is the ventilation on it . |
| 12 | Assuming that your machine has a standard sized case and existing motherboard the important calculation to do is the value of what you would keep and what you would throw away . |
| 13 | I have tried to suggest that what Lévi-Strauss is doing is a form of discourse analysis that both attempts to articulate the rules governing the formation of the type of discourse and interpret the ‘ meanings ’ of utterances within the particular discourse . |
| 14 | Now what we 're doing is a sort of historical sidestep . |
| 15 | The principal reason for so doing is the effect of statutory duties imposed on the landlord in respect of the provision of sanitary facilities in a multi-occupied building . |
| 16 | ‘ I respect the fact that The Jam can touch people and what they 're doing is an attempt to be ‘ real ’ — no myth or far-fetched fantasy — and it 's for real people , not people who follow trends . |
| 17 | In the above example , do is a substitute for like movies . |
| 18 | What historians do is a set of activities structured by their social relations , to each other and to their audiences . |
| 19 | In a sense , therefore , one may adopt Hare 's significant point that what people do is a matter of some importance . |
| 20 | I suppose that what I do is a form of expression . |
| 21 | In ( 119 ) the bare infinitive do is the equivalent of " who did " and it is only by means of the indefinite pronoun anyone that the speaker is able to generalize from the particular performance of the event do which was directly experienced . |
| 22 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
| 23 | The most she ever did was a bit of sick visiting . |
| 24 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
| 25 | His face wore that concentrated look she had grown used to , as if everything he did was the focus of all his energies — like the look when he 'd taken her in his arms and made his kiss seem the still point of the entire universe . |
| 26 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 27 | To involve related professions as closely as he did was an innovation at that time . |