Example sentences of "[vb mod] be done [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What should be done is the level of housing allocated to Selby should be assessed in terms of whether it can be satisfactorily accommodated , and if it ca n't then it should n't be allocated . |
| 3 | All that should be done is that , if that improbable and unlikely event ever takes place , the courts should decline to enforce the clause . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How it will be done is outside my brief at the moment . |
| 10 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The work which can be done is any work a solicitor normally does other than representation in a court or tribunal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 17 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 18 | All that can be done is to point to the factors that the courts commonly take into account when calculating the multiplier . |