Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no telling what the gang may do now . ’ |
| 2 | But if the metal is placed in a big magnetic field ( the Earth 's field may do ) , then electric currents in it will produce well-defined surface-perturbing mechanical movements . |
| 3 | Anyone wishing to send a donation may do so to : The Countess of Euston , Elizabeth FitzRoy Homes , Freepost , Haslemere , GU27 2BR . |
| 4 | They raise no interpretative difficulties of the kind that credo may do . |
| 5 | In some cases students wishing to take an open audition for the full-time course may do so without paying the usual audition fee . |
| 6 | A suitable satellite in high orbit should do it nicely . |
| 7 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 8 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 9 | It was therefore decided by the Council that anyone who elects to pay by a single lump sum payment should do so by or on 31 May in any one year . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that the snake must do its best to protect its precious fangs . |
| 11 | He did not like an excess of specialization and thought that a university should do what it could to counteract the trend , and help arts undergraduates to learn a bit of science or vice versa . |
| 12 | One good shove should do it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Premier should do what the people want … ‘ |
| 14 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 15 | ALTHOUGH three English Commonwealth Games representatives , Peter Elliott , Derek Redmond and Phil Brown , have withdrawn , Linford Christie 's presence should do much to enliven the Scottish Indoor Championship in the Kelvin Hall , Glasgow , today and tomorrow . |
| 16 | If the modules to be modified are not currently in a single package the user must do one of the following : |
| 17 | Bettleheim in The Uses of Enchantment provides an apt summary of what a story must do to hold a child 's interest and ‘ enrich his ( sic ) life ’ . |
| 18 | The inner wall of each chamber is stiff and when it is moved in or out , it makes a click , as the lid of a tin may do . |
| 19 | Private parties may not themselves originate requests , but a party 's lawyer may do so if the law of the state of origin so allows , as is the case with attorneys in several States of the U.S.A. |
| 20 | You must be satisfied that the patient is progressing towards cure according to homœopathic principles : some repetition of an ill chosen remedy may do no harm , because of the brief action of each dose , but persistent use of a superficial remedy may cause harm . |
| 21 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 22 | In the car let's do a gap Christopher |
| 23 | The provisions which permit the confiscation of the literary proceeds of crime may do little to prevent this kind of journalism , which is arguably more repugnant than the profits made by offenders who may merely be pawns in a ratings or circulation war . |
| 24 | Er as to existing policy , we 're elected to change policy , existing policies were to an extent rejected to a large extent rejected by the electorate here to , er so that the electorate should do . |
| 25 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 26 | In addition , each cell must have a set of instructions — possibly analogous to genetic information — which lists what every cell must do in every position . |
| 27 | A private individual who buys a minority shareholding in a non-dividend paying private company as a pure portfolio investment must do so on the basis of some prospect which , if realised , will provide him with the return he seeks . |
| 28 | One might say , of course , that this is not what a dictionary should do . |
| 29 | I 'll come round with the skin and some shots protein and Zip should do it . ’ |
| 30 | What the programme should do now , however , is concentrate more on the politics of rugby : both the internal politics of the game itself ( which are omnipresent ) and the politics of the game in relation to the outside world . |