Example sentences of "to do [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it 's a bit hard to do in n it ? |
| 2 | just a bad thing to do in n it ? |
| 3 | Well if that 's what she wants to do , that 's what she wants to do in n it ? |
| 4 | All you have to do is to fill in the details , including your name and address and the amount you wish to give , and sign and date the document in front of a witness . |
| 5 | Learning thoroughly the piece which you are going to do is important . |
| 6 | What we 're trying to do is to write cricket bats , so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock , it might … travel … |
| 7 | Henry V and the second piece I 'd like to do is a contract if … if , that is , we have time . ’ |
| 8 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 9 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 10 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 11 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 12 | All we have to do is combine the two . |
| 13 | ‘ What we need to do is set up a regular lunch date so everyone knows what 's happening . |
| 14 | Sometimes the only safe thing to do is to land out of the site altogether in a nearby field . |
| 15 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 16 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 17 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 18 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 19 | All you have to do is send a signed statement from your pacer(s) together with a receipt from the charity , and Joss will send you a tankard . |
| 20 | If you 're tiling a whole wall or room , the most important thing to do is to plan precisely where the whole tiles will fall . |
| 21 | All you have to do is study the picture printed on the Entry Form , circle the 10 deliberate d-i-y mistakes it contains , and locate the hidden bottle of Guinness Original , which you should also highlight with a circle . |
| 22 | But to say that the devil finds work for idle hands to do is misleading because hypermoralistic or ( if meant literally ) hypertheological . |
| 23 | What Roby , likes to do is to deconstruct the texts , to probe the gaps and absences in them , to uncover what they are not saying , to expose their ideological bad faith , to cut a cross-section through the twisted strands of their semiotic codes and literary conventions . |
| 24 | What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them . |
| 25 | ‘ All you have to do is be black and do n't curse the Jews directly , and the Jew will vote for the black in a second . |
| 26 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ All we can hope to do is get ourselves organised . |
| 28 | ‘ One of the biggest jobs we have got to do is to pass on what we have learned to the professions , ’ says Ms Reeves . |
| 29 | All these people want to do is hit someone before the lights go out . |
| 30 | ‘ What we will expect the regions to do is adhere to the firm budgets by doing their job properly , ’ he said . |