Example sentences of "do be [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 2 | You came here to see Worsdale 's work ; the least I can do is show it to you . ’ |
| 3 | What we should do is show that we 're the best union by effectively representing our members , and if others want to join us , then they can , but on our terms . |
| 4 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 5 | What we can do is examine the concept of power from a number of different perspectives . |
| 6 | What we must do is appoint ourselves as our own coach since , as we mentioned earlier , ultimately we teach ourselves . |
| 7 | He said the only , the other thing you can do is loosen it off take the calliper b and turn the calliper round . |
| 8 | All I can do is transform what I see into words and tell you what 's going on . ’ |
| 9 | all you can do is poke bits of coloured stone about , eh ? " |
| 10 | Well , er we 're not saying they do n't , er , you , we , we went there to protest nuclear testing , we knew that er you know , we , that that , that protest would be opposed , but now that those people have been seized , er surely the very least they can do is inform us that they 're safe and well , and where they are and what is being intended ; that , that is not , er that is not too much to ask . |
| 11 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 12 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 13 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 14 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 15 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're desperately sick for Colin and now the least we can do is make the play-offs and win them for him , ’ said Whittingham . |
| 17 | And the least I can do is make sure he has some peace and quiet while he can , poor little scrap , she thought . |
| 18 | The only thing he ca n't do is make up his mind how . ’ |
| 19 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 20 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 21 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 23 | The only thing you will not do is make me worry . ’ |
| 24 | Anne trusted you with the parcel ; the least you can do is make sure it reaches its destination on time . |
| 25 | John , all this will do is make , is make re is make it , hang on , I lost it . |
| 26 | Hang on John , all this will do is make at least a quarter of our own members , in this union , to be inactive in their own industries . |
| 27 | Erm and what we will do is make sure you 've got enough room for fifteen foot by eight foot with with whatever space in front of it as as a as a lawn if you like . |
| 28 | Mother 's very brave and philosophical about the whole thing ; all I can do is make things as easy as possible for her . ’ |
| 29 | All we can do is make sure adequate information is available so they know the likely effects . ’ |
| 30 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |