Example sentences of "do be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It 's because there are economies of scale , alright , now if there are gains to be had from specialisation right , and consumers want specialised products and the best thing to do is to , erm , focus production in a single location right , for lots of different variants of this product right . |
| 62 | Erm I have a number of points to make but what I intend to do is to er very briefly outline them and then see where we go from there if that 's acceptable . |
| 63 | So one of the things we 're going to , to do is to , to see what that new land reform document might be . |
| 64 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 65 | And what I would like us to do is to be able when we leave here tomorrow , to say that by what we 've learned about one another , and by what we 've actually decided , that we can probably improve what we 're doing by something between five and ten percent . |
| 66 | What I will need to do is to now take this information away with me and put together some recommendations er which will help solve this concern for you . |
| 67 | Erm all those because subjects come under the general umbrella of faith and life , and I think er , moderator , probably the correct thing is to do is to be formal and to begin by er , proposing that these three reports be received for discussion . |
| 68 | It does n't need to be all , all that it needs t to do is to just demonstrate . |
| 69 | So the thing , the thing to do is to sort of dot around in the conversation things like pre antidisestablishmentarianism . |
| 70 | You ca n't for real you ca n't really move blue ball you can move the red ball as much as you like but not What you have to do is to so just try a normally conventional just sling straight through here |
| 71 | Yes , ah well the thing to do is to er go down and hi , hire a Daily Mirror van and wait for Mrs to arrive ! |
| 72 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 73 | If you are , what I want you to do is to , to create a , a team plan and the first thing we need to decide in that team plan is where do we wan na get ? |
| 74 | Now , what you 've got to do , the one thing you really have got to do is to , is is to start being critical of yourselves and well look , am I doing anything wrong here ? |
| 75 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 76 | erm what this gives us an opportunity to do is to further exploit and promote erm the English , or the sort of British holiday , and this is why we are sort of working on the theme ‘ Britain 's great ’ , because a lot of people have yet to discover various parts of Britain and there are all sorts of holidays , you know , across Britain , from Land 's End to County Antrim , from Loch Ness to London Town . |
| 77 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |
| 78 | And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable . |
| 79 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 80 | So all I want to do is to forward my external calls which are n't being answered . |
| 81 | But erm so as what we have to do is to basically arrange start arranging things . |
| 82 | And if you notice what we 're trying to do is with our er illustration here er is to reflect the the gentility if you like of the Yorkshire hills and Yorkshire dales and we have a logo of our own which appears in the corner of the screen . |
| 83 | a lot about it and sha n't be , frankly I 'm relieved I do n't actually know a lot but when the meeting to discuss what we 're supposed to do is on December tenth yo so I 'm a bit torn cos I in a way that 's what I ought to be doing even though the welfare business in a way that 's wh that 's what I ought to be doing cos it 's entirely . |
| 84 | All you need to do is cross the ridge separating the two villages and continue on to Day 11 . |
| 85 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 86 | What I want you to do is in your couples I want one of you to pretend that one of you 's got a grievance okay , think about it before you do it . |
| 87 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 88 | All she had to do was cross a couple of wires and George would become just another victim of a tragic domestic ‘ accident ’ . |
| 89 | But really , what , all they wanted to do was save face from the hospital because it was n't our fault but she used a bit of you know , we wo n't embarrass the hospital we 'll say |
| 90 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |