Example sentences of "do [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of us has to find our own truth and our own self in relation to the world ; all you can do is to remain true to yourself and your chosen path . |
| 2 | The worst thing we can do is become pred-ictable . ’ |
| 3 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 4 | And the least I can do is make sure he has some peace and quiet while he can , poor little scrap , she thought . |
| 5 | Anne trusted you with the parcel ; the least you can do is make sure it reaches its destination on time . |
| 6 | Erm and what we will do is make sure you 've got enough room for fifteen foot by eight foot with with whatever space in front of it as as a as a lawn if you like . |
| 7 | All we can do is make sure adequate information is available so they know the likely effects . ’ |
| 8 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 10 | But I 've got , what I 've got ta do is repair that other coop |
| 11 | A spokeswoman for the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association said : ‘ The best thing people can do is consign this sort of rubbish to the rubbish bin which is where it belongs . ’ |
| 12 | How can we criticize it , how well does it actually fit into what happened in the real world , they just want little bits of information but not too much depth on anything but always remember empirical evidence examples are very important what I would do is using those examples or la last year 's exam paper , practise , practise the short answers because you ca n't write very much detail in it so it 's a good idea to have some idea about how much you can write , then your expectations will be changed okay . |
| 13 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 14 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 15 | Images and echoes fill the room , diffuse and speeding , the glass darkened to a degree no one thought possible ; his immense talent , his ring wisdom , his antipathy for chemicals , argued against destructibility ; all he would ever do is grow old . |
| 16 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 17 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 18 | Now what we can do is do that mathematically which is the exciting bit for some of you . |
| 19 | You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory . |
| 20 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 21 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 22 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |
| 23 | So , what you 're gon na do is to multiply sixty four point eight by |
| 24 | Erm right okay well the first thing I 'd do is handle that one . |
| 25 | What it should do is to stop issuing patents for plants and animals and await the outcome of proper international debate . |
| 26 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |
| 27 | I think the best thing we can do is leave any talk of work until tomorrow and concentrate on the real reason why we agreed to this evening and get to know one another better . ’ |
| 28 | All they can do is exchange one form of wage slavery' for another . |
| 29 | Oh all you got ta do is to hold that white , hold both ends of it and pull it , it 'll come out . |
| 30 | All that formational analysis can do is to put sociological questions to that general history and , at times , from these questions , suggest new areas for detailed research . |