Example sentences of "it [modal v] do be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 2 | What it should do is to stop issuing patents for plants and animals and await the outcome of proper international debate . |
| 3 | But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow , near-landlocked waters . |
| 4 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 5 | And so therefore all it could do was look at Aden and Palestine and Cyprus , in terms of actually , I 'm talking about the practicalities of |
| 6 | All it would do is slow down the rate of change . |
| 7 | All it will do is alienate a lot of women who are n't radical feminists , and open us up to ridicule from our enemies . |
| 8 | All it will do is clutter up your collection with rubbish ’ . |
| 9 | Bricknell says that Cefic has responded to the suggestion of such a tax by saying that all it will do is reduce the industry 's ability to spend money on new plants and technology . |
| 10 | What it will do is to identify those kinds of misspelling that most pupils are likely to make : appropriate teaching at this stage helps to avoid remedial teaching later . |
| 11 | What it will do is indicate areas where the maximum benefit will be obtained from the use of the resources available . |
| 12 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 13 | The most it can do is draw with its opponent . |
| 14 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 15 | What it can do is to stimulate interest and encourage teachers to think about the implications of their practices . |
| 16 | All it can do is say , ‘ I hate everybody and it 's not fair . ’ |
| 17 | Linguistics can not supply a key to the specific qualities of literature as such , or a guide to interpretation ; all it can do is provide the means for describing a text on the basis of a general linguistic theory , and therefore relate the text to the language as a whole in which it is written . |