Example sentences of "they do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work they do is an inspiring example of what loving community care is all about . |
| 2 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 3 | In a book called Problems with badgers ? , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals acknowledges that badgers are a nuisance for farmers , but suggests the damage they do is often exaggerated . |
| 4 | Adders are the only poisonous serpents in the British Isles , and they 're such lazy sods all they do is sunbathe beside or sleep underneath rocks after a meal of small frogs . |
| 5 | All they do is set up an obstacle course for the surfer . ’ |
| 6 | They feel nothing they do is important enough for their parents to bother about . |
| 7 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Foreign companies with subsidiaries in Britain will be entitled to Alvey largesse , provided the work they do is exploited in Britain and does not end up abroad . |
| 10 | Adults travel further and feed at random much more freely , and the damage they do is not so noticeable since it is more widespread . |
| 11 | What they do is up to them and you should n't feel that you have to copy them . |
| 12 | Those sorts of things inspired me , and the reason those records sound like they do is because they used that equipment . |
| 13 | If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal . |
| 14 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 15 | I know there are those who would prefer anarchy to hold sway , but what they do is destroy everything about climbing most of us hold dear . |
| 16 | ‘ Whatever they do is fine , ’ said Jennifer , ‘ we 're not here to dictate what other people should do . ’ |
| 17 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 18 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 19 | Girls are so much easier , if you put them on a blanket at least all they do is wet it . |
| 20 | They seem to regard them as patients or problems ; the last thing they do is help them organise . |
| 21 | He spends as much time out of the house as possible , and what they do is too subtle for him to notice . |
| 22 | The last thing they do is fire the person who took the risk . |
| 23 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 24 | I mean , bugger me , all they do is sit in little Toyota vans all day bouncing around taking pictures of Tommies . ’ |
| 25 | Basically what they do is they stick you in one of these divers ' decompression chambers , |
| 26 | To protect people who have n't have your course of vaccinations , what they do is they inject the tetanus vaccine into a horse . |
| 27 | The tapes are erased afterwards what they do is somebody types it all up and erm then they build it all up on a computer . |
| 28 | All they do is they just have stray and then they put ed E D on the end |
| 29 | The first thing they do is switch the bloody lights on . |
| 30 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |