Example sentences of "to do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't do it all , which of those things that I really need or want to do am I going to have to leave undone ? |
| 2 | The terms under which Truman created the NSA and what it was meant to do are still supposed to be secret even today . |
| 3 | ‘ But the comments we hear from wives advising their husbands what to do are great . |
| 4 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 5 | As Moore sees it , questions as to what we ought to do are questions as to which actions are good , indeed best , as means . |
| 6 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 7 | Erm well the things I have to do are basically all the things listed on here still . |
| 8 | ‘ All the instructions about what to do are on this sheet of paper , here . ’ |
| 9 | All the pieces of advocacy that we 're going to ask you to do are short . |
| 10 | All the things he was allowed to do were boring . |
| 11 | All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting . |
| 12 | And in a way I lost my direction too when all my lovely ideas about what I hoped to do were smashed down , leaving only a shell : a two-dimensional character instead of a many-faceted character , which would have been more interesting to watch and more interesting to do . |
| 13 | Statement of objectives : clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required . |
| 14 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 15 | The subjects I choose to do were French , English language , Co-ordinated Science , Design and realization , Geography , Integrated Humanities , Islam , contemporary issues and Maths . |
| 16 | No , that was what we used to do were n't it ? |
| 17 | That was a silly thing to do were n't it , eh ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Learning thoroughly the piece which you are going to do is important . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | Henry V and the second piece I 'd like to do is a contract if … if , that is , we have time . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 26 | All we have to do is combine the two . |
| 27 | ‘ What we need to do is set up a regular lunch date so everyone knows what 's happening . |
| 28 | Sometimes the only safe thing to do is to land out of the site altogether in a nearby field . |
| 29 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 30 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |