Example sentences of "[vb -s] do is " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 3i has done is demonstrate that the clearing banks in the UK have collectively over forty years ensured that there is access to long-term development capital for British industry . |
| 2 | The one and only good thing that fluoridation has done is to provide an illustration of the urgent need for legislation to prevent the use of public money , the machinery of government , and the time of public servants for promoting private interests at the public 's expense . |
| 3 | What Piaget has done is to remind us that children operate mentally in a way different from adults . |
| 4 | And , if you think about it , all that the would-be driver has done is to use his mind and his imagination to visualize all those things which could possibly go wrong and cause him to fail . |
| 5 | What the Courage League has done is produce the best club rugby in the world ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ But what Bill has done is unbelievable . |
| 7 | But what Patch-Hall , the former curator of rail transport at the Science Museum in London , has done is gather together a fascinating collection of explanations about the system , its equipment and legislation . |
| 8 | She points out that what feminist thought has done is to take pornography out of its usual position in the argument between conservatives and liberals over censorship , and to put it into a completely different framework ( p. 137 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ We wondered if this new service would take away from our standard lipsticks , but actually what it has done is increase overall lipstick sales within the store . |
| 10 | To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended . |
| 11 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 12 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 13 | What Vichy has done is to graft hydrophilic collagen into lipidic chains , allowing it to pass into the epidermis to perform vital energising work . |
| 14 | All he has done is to show , in a crude way , that , in order to increase the market value of the firm , one needs to identify opportunities where actual returns exceed those required for the risk involved ! |
| 15 | What Jerison has done is to reconstruct the probable EQs of extinct animals that now exist only as fossils . |
| 16 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 17 | What Microsoft has done is throw away the traditional basis of a spreadsheet and brought the concept into the computer age . |
| 18 | I think probably many of you are familiar with the concepts that Phill described and what those concepts what the client server approach has done is to really bring about quite a revolutionary new breed of systems since the term was first coined in fact by in ninety eighty seven . |
| 19 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 20 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 21 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 22 | But if we , what she has done is soured the relationship with us |
| 23 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 26 | All he has to do is fill in the person 's name . |
| 27 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 28 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 29 | All the angler has to do is raise the point of his rod , and the fish hooks itself . |
| 30 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |