Example sentences of "do is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , that you should make them sensible by the Mildness of your carriage , and the composure even in your correction of them , that what you do is reasonable in you and useful and necessary for them . |
| 2 | ‘ Everything you do is certain . |
| 3 | Faced with worrying medical symptoms in one 's child , signs that an elderly parent can no longer cope alone in their own home , or the sight of flames consuming the house around you — what you do is crucial ! |
| 4 | ‘ Everything I do is honest and is undercut with this idea that we can ll relate to what I 'm talking about . |
| 5 | The reason why males die more readily than females do is attributable to the effects of testosterone and the only cure for this is to be castrated , and the earlier you are castrated the lo if you 're a male , the longer your life expectancy will become compared with , compared with females . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think what I do is avant-garde or anything , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Much more stimulating is the idea that everything cats ( or humans for that matter ) do is capable of logical explanation , if only we can find out how the behaviour mechanism operates . |
| 8 | Then an improved approximation to Y is unc where do is an arbitrary non-singular diagonal matrix which may , for example , be used to make a homologous element in each of the corresponding columns of Y1 and Yo the same ; do is useful , but not essential . |
| 9 | Cos I say , otherwise all you do is bloody housework and go to up the factory , you know , I mean , it 's nothing ! |
| 10 | When you start there is a sense in which everything you do is right , there is no clear sense of wrong , though of course it is here that you may make the inevitable false move , take the inevitable wrong turning . |
| 11 | Erm , all quizzes have rules , there 's basically just one rule , that anything I say or do is right , but , and that 's the rules . |
| 12 | So , as I say , we go back to rule one , everything I do is right . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing I do is simple , Shih Tong . |
| 14 | Although most people with IBS in the community do not consult a physician for their symptoms ; the treatment of those who do is time-consuming and expensive . |
| 15 | Her face is pretty bloody and that , so what I do is wet some paper tissues under the tap , and real careful like , I rub the blood off of her mouth and chin . |
| 16 | Girls are so much easier , if you put them on a blanket at least all they do is wet it . |
| 17 | The trouble is , they 're usually not where wild boars have evolved to be , and the environmental damage they do is immense . |
| 18 | Most have interesting things to say , but why they appear in the order they do is explicable only on some deep theory of random numbers : the editors provide no justification for the selection or their order — or useful introductory remarks or guidelines . |
| 19 | Everything that Clegg and Gatsby do is devoted to their loved ones , this is the whole focus of their lives , which is what makes them so dangerous . |
| 20 | They feel nothing they do is important enough for their parents to bother about . |
| 21 | What we do is important in its own right , but what we feel about what we do is also critical . |
| 22 | This confusion about what social workers do is important . |
| 23 | When everyone looks at you expectantly and everything you do is significant , when men defer and women give you cool , appraising glances ? |
| 24 | What they do is basic : they fly , feed , breed sparingly and look beautiful . |
| 25 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |
| 26 | All I do is fucking drink . |
| 27 | Sensing how this might have harmful repercussions , Halloran and co-workers asked : ‘ How long will peaceful demonstrators seeking a new mode of expression be content to demonstrate peacefully when whatever they do is likely to get the negative treatment ? ’ ( ibid.:317 ) . |
| 28 | Let's face it , a factory or studio or even a taxi firm that has fun in what they do is likely to communicate more , work more co-operatively and generally loosen up.There 's a hell of a way to go in changing our businessmen ( and women ) from the habits of macho corporatism but with fun as the name of the new game , the future looks rosy . |
| 29 | To distort the notion of profit in the way that these examples do is likely to blinker perceptions and prevent a critical awareness of contemporary social reality . |