Example sentences of "[modal v] do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 2 | What we must do is appoint ourselves as our own coach since , as we mentioned earlier , ultimately we teach ourselves . |
| 3 | What you must do is preserve as much of that space as you can , especially downwind of you . |
| 4 | What we must do is to create the greatest visions of our lives and live them . |
| 5 | What you must do is help him forget ; plunge him in business as your father would have done ; save him from ruining the rest of his life hunting for vengeance . ’ |
| 6 | What they must do is relearn to choose and commit themselves to the consequences of their choice . |
| 7 | What I must do is get to know the people over a few hours or days and find out what they 're trying to do , what their activities are , whether they have children or pets . |
| 8 | What you must do is lash out with all your available natural weapons until the shock and pain of your attack forces them to let go . |
| 9 | What you must do is tense your neck muscles to relieve the pressure and then hurt your attacker so quickly and painfully that he will loosen his grip , allowing you to move and gasp for air — before you smash him and run . |
| 10 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 11 | ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’ |
| 12 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 13 | What we in Britain must do is encourage success at every level … |
| 14 | What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own , and give us his instruction for testing it . |
| 15 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
| 16 | " What you must do is this : go back to the king and ask for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy . |
| 17 | What you must do is carry out as much investigation as is reasonably possible to narrow it down to one suspect . |
| 18 | What we must do is to distinguish between bogus and genuine refugees . |
| 19 | The first thing we must do is to defeat the MacSharry proposals that target British farm workers , and particularly those relating to sheepmeat , which represent a direct attack on those who work in British agriculture — not merely those who own or rent farms but those employed on them . |
| 20 | The important thing that we must do is look ahead 20 years to the time when those of us who are , I hope , still active in politics will be asked difficult questions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Er or are there is there , are there a couple of schools of thought on this particular subject , well essentially what you must do is write something about everything you know , about erm that this particular sort of concept , do n't write everything you know on this particular subject , like you have only got fifteen minutes . |
| 23 | What the court must do is place itself in thought in the same factual matrix as that of the parties ( Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Hansen-Tangen [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 570 ) . |
| 24 | You can advise them whether they decide your advice that 's fine , but what you must do is get them to s , you must write it on the plan your future document , the advice you gave , what plan you decided to do , and I would actually get him to initial it as well . |
| 25 | All you must do is leave your pipe unlit in the house . ’ |
| 26 | The very least he must do is to swallow his pride and seek advice and help from fellow English managers at the highest level . |
| 27 | Said Barrow : ‘ What we must do is take confidence from those results . |
| 28 | He said but what you must do is try it , if you can |
| 29 | What this , this union must do and what Labour must do is campaign for the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter . |
| 30 | So that I feel that one of the things that we must do is ensure that all people who are now training to be teachers , and those who already in the service , have got to be given more information about the condition so that they may be able to recognise it . |