Example sentences of "it be the [noun] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the sex Do you sex |
| 2 | This is n't the opposition talking the country down , it 's the government doing the country down . |
| 3 | It 's the school does it . |
| 4 | But I 'll be back from Manchester in a year or so , and it 's the thing to do in one way , over here . |
| 5 | It 's the politics did n't work got ta mention politics , it 's just to get away from politics . |
| 6 | It 's the spears do n't work |
| 7 | Usually it will be only for a few seconds , but it is the ability to do it instantly on demand that is so important . |
| 8 | In other words it is the work done by taking a unit charge round a circuit . |
| 9 | This problem is not so common with the bell and pad as it is the alarm doing the waking of the child and the child is already wet . |
| 10 | It is the failure to do so which leads to critical anomalies . |
| 11 | It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event . |
| 12 | ‘ Gavin , ’ noted McGeechan , ‘ speaks to everyone — senior players , new caps , replacements , whoever — not because it is the thing to do but because that 's the kind of bloke he is . |
| 13 | Strategically , it was the time to do it . |
| 14 | And then she thought how strange it was the Leader did not seem concerned in case she should try to escape . |
| 15 | At Bourn it was the custom to do three night duties in a row and then be off to Cambridge the next day without bothering to go to bed . |
| 16 | It was the attempt to do so which had provoked the upheaval of 1905–6 . |
| 17 | Elizabeth Roberts found that sons and daughters helped because ‘ it was the thing to do ’ and because of the all-pervasive fear of the workhouse . |
| 18 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |