Example sentences of "[be] do [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 2 | The first thing that has to be done is to obtain a death certificate from a medical practitioner . |
| 3 | Clearly , therefore , there is no way in which oxygen can be obtained without any water loss : the best that can be done is to minimize the loss . |
| 4 | If the degree of rotation was very small , so that for each dot the nearest neighbour is its own image , this would not be surprising : all that need be done is to draw imaginary lines between all pairs of nearest neighbours , and those lines will circle the centre of rotation . |
| 5 | How it will be done is outside my brief at the moment . |
| 6 | In any study being undertaken , the first thing to be done is the obvious one of finding out what organisations exist and whether they are part of a national body — such as the Women 's Institute , Mothers ' Union , Guides or Scouts — or purely local , such as the Film Club or the Debating Society . |
| 7 | A much better example of how the basic allocation is to be done is shown in Prowle , Jones & Shaw , and I reproduce it in Table 3. 1 with acknowledgement to them . |
| 8 | One of the first things that should be done is to share this with your partner so that your partner can help separate fact from fiction and be sensitive . |
| 9 | Many have written on testing prophecy and really what needs to be done is common sense . |
| 10 | That this can be done is borne out in practice , and it is sometimes noted that , in the course of treatment for some long-standing chronic condition , patients will re-experience old symptoms which they may have forgotten about . |
| 11 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 12 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 13 | What remains to be done is to consider the relevance of what Wittgenstein says to the issues raised earlier in this paper . |
| 14 | One thing that must be done is that my place must look respectable by 11 a.m. so that if anybody does come in , it looks tidy . |
| 15 | One way this could be done is to cause a program error of some kind , such as by trying to execute an invalid operation code ( or a privileged instruction ) , since this of course causes an interrupt and entry to the supervisor . |
| 16 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 17 | The first thing to be done is to draw up a list of such works to be read in school . " |
| 18 | The work which can be done is any work a solicitor normally does other than representation in a court or tribunal . |
| 19 | Establishing priorities in the sometimes confused jumble of things to be done is another expression of the officer 's autonomy . |
| 20 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 21 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 22 | And I think lots of need to be put in , but I think what needs to be done is to hear that the people who are actually living in the inner city , feel it is what they need . |
| 23 | Fish are very demanding for the draughtsman because one can not put them into an attractive or anthropomorphic pose ; what can sometimes be done is to show the scenery where the fish was caught . |
| 24 | When it is thought vital that members or creditors should receive notice , the Act requires them to be given notice by the company ; in relation to the general public the best that can be done is to require publication in newspapers . |
| 25 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
| 26 | What needs to be done is not as hard to conceive of as is sometimes suggested . |
| 27 | When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed . |
| 28 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 29 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 30 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |