Example sentences of "[is] something [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because breathing is something we do spontaneously , we very rarely think about it . |
| 2 | Getting dressed and undressed is something we do almost unthinkingly , but for young children it is an amazingly complicated task — just think of all those buttons and zips ! |
| 3 | Hyaline membrane disease is something we do n't want . ’ |
| 4 | We feel that this is very much a matter for the district councils in the preparation of their local plans , with their local knowledge which is something we do not have at the county level to be able to make comment on . |
| 5 | yes , discounting merchandise is something we do all the time it 's just that the discounts are different in January and the merchandise to which they 're applied may be different . |
| 6 | Clearly this is something we do not wish to be associated with ; we can only imagine they are trying to get some kind of spurious respectability by using our name . |
| 7 | Talking is something they do easily but not well , it is said . |
| 8 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 9 | It is something you do n't expect . |
| 10 | You will write more rapidly If you join as many letters as possible , so try using looped tails on your letters even If this is something you do not always do when writing . |
| 11 | ( An activity is something you do . |
| 12 | In England , that kind of patriotism is something you do with other consenting adults under the covers with the lights out , and usually comes with various unpleasant side-effects such as xenophobia , anti-Semitism , Anglo-Catholicism and so on . |
| 13 | ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom . |
| 14 | But there is something you do n't know that you should know . |
| 15 | You find a place to dive from , because diving is something you do particularly well — a ledge on a cliff , a boat pier . |
| 16 | ‘ For some , science is something you do in a laboratory , something you talk about , and something you get excited about . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , but there is something you do want … ’ |
| 18 | If the image is something you do n't really think is going to do as much for you as the voice . |
| 19 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 20 | This is difficult , it takes time , fearlessness and optimism — it is something I do not propose embarking upon again in my life . |
| 21 | Which is something I do know about . |
| 22 | The fact that it has happened before , or even that the opportunity is always there is something I do n't mention . |
| 23 | Pembroke Hall surely if er if it 's something they do n't want . |
| 24 | No they show only what they want to show , so if there 's something they do n't like they wo n't show it |
| 25 | Well , that 's something we do n't know . |
| 26 | Anyway , it 's something you do n't do , if you want a tip ; the customers do n't like it . ’ |
| 27 | Now did they give you that and it 's something you do n't need or do you think maybe it 's something you do need ? |
| 28 | Now did they give you that and it 's something you do n't need or do you think maybe it 's something you do need ? |
| 29 | ‘ That 's something you do n't ever talk about . ’ |
| 30 | So you 've go got a situation where if somebody wants to change something they 're actually , you know maybe it 's something you do in a job or something like this , and somebody says we , we really ought to change this . |