Example sentences of "do be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The demands for something to be done were strong and understandable . |
| 32 | Lord Denning MR added the further reason that the acts done were too remote to be regarded as furtherance . |
| 33 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 34 | The four double blind challenges that were done were negative and only 30% maintained remission for longer than 12 months indicating no influence of elimination diets on the duration of remission . |
| 35 | He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone |
| 36 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 37 | Hypnosis does not increase the recall of meaningless information like nonsense syllables , which it should do were it tapping a hypothetical memory-taperecorder lurking in the subconscious . |
| 38 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 39 | I could do were both starving , I 've finished mine . |
| 40 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 41 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 42 | All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow . |
| 43 | ‘ The least you could do is take the other end of the Chesterfield , ’ Amanda said crossly . |
| 44 | That this will not do is what I have just argued . |
| 45 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 46 | All we can do is plant and hope . |
| 47 | She has n't stopped complaining since that shopping centre went up , but , like , with people like that all you can do is listen and sympathize . |
| 48 | What the media should not do is cause friction and division within society and especially it should not encourage opposition or resistance to government decrees . |
| 49 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 50 | The most an artist can do is to limit the amounts which are paid to a well-known producer . |
| 51 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 52 | If you produce a proposal , the first thing a lot of British engineers will do is tell you what 's wrong with it . |
| 53 | All you can do is wait until your stepfather gets the will admitted to probate . |
| 54 | What I can do is , I can go back and see if his car 's still there . |
| 55 | What I 'd do is stay on the other side of the room so I would n't get sucked through it . |
| 56 | ‘ If all you can do is swear — , ‘ For Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 57 | ‘ If your nature is fire , all you can do is burn . ’ |
| 58 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 59 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 60 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |