Example sentences of "do with [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 2 | You can do without carpet but you 've got to have somewhere to sit and the least you can make do with is one sofa or two good chairs . |
| 3 | I think probably , what we could do with is a some criteria as to what what complaints are going to go to the complaint examiner if we 've only got one of them . |
| 4 | What you could really do with is leaving |
| 5 | What we could really do with is an Easter egg with an egg cup with it . |
| 6 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 7 | It 's a shame , what yo , I think you could really do with is somebody sort of part-time who is kind of flexible on , on when they 're part-time so they could fit in with the with the sort of fluctuation |
| 8 | Perhaps gangs of older women up hills is quite the norm in the Fatherland , and if so it could do with being aped here . |
| 9 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 10 | The sort of mix Techno jocks could do with being a lot more open-minded towards . |
| 11 | However , while some reports are well drafted , others could do with being both more complete and more pointed in terms of their recommendations . |
| 12 | I just liked the sound of being a musician but , for a while , I had to make do with being a fireman . |
| 13 | There 's not much we can do with being in or out the building or is there ? |
| 14 | The software installation routine , though it installs a basic system very easily , could do with being beefed up a little in order to make configuring the network simpler for the first-timer . |
| 15 | Look erm could do with being , having a doorway across back of here could n't they ? |
| 16 | It could do with being that long for my airing cupboard . |
| 17 | She could do with being taken down to the tennis courts probably and have a knock up . |
| 18 | What it does have a lot to do with is that the Moat Centre has not had clear significant management on the ground and what we 're proposing here today should produce that in the very near future and what the proposals that Mr proposals would have done is not produced that in the significant future and I think that 's the point that really needs to be stressed . |
| 19 | Was it something to do with being a vegetarian ? |
| 20 | Educating pupils with special educational needs can be an expensive activity and being caring , compassionate and tolerant has little to do with being cost effective . |
| 21 | But it 's got nothing to do with being a Nazi as far as I 'm concerned … |
| 22 | He wore a steel bracelet on his wrist — something to do with being a Sikh , Nutty understood , with rain , and she had Midnight to ride . |
| 23 | Perhaps it all has to do with being unworldly and prepared to believe in the little people at the end of the garden . |
| 24 | What has all this got to do with being sixty ? |
| 25 | I 've always had a yen for married women — it 's something to do with being an only son , I suspect , some sort of Oedipal urge to play Daddy 's part with Mummy — and I knew by experience how much care and tact is needed . |
| 26 | ‘ Constitutional matters do not have anything to do with being on speaking terms , they have to do with legal status . |
| 27 | Certain happenings in her body had stopped ; she had thought it was something to do with being married , or almost so , to Paul . |
| 28 | Good health is as much to do with being in good spirits , being happy and content , coping with the problems and difficulties of life , but enjoying life to the fullest extent possible . |
| 29 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 30 | ‘ Naah , it 's all definitely worth doing , it 's nothing to do with being a fad or something specifically Californian , it just makes you feel better … ‘ |