Example sentences of "[pers pn] do be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You forget , Fran , that , as a Capricorn , everything I do is based on hard fact , not imagination . |
| 2 | I also swear that what I do is done with the full knowledge of Bishop Wishart ! ’ |
| 3 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 5 | Operating in an international market , what you do is dictated by the moves your competitors in the confectionery and soft drinks markets are making . |
| 6 | Everything we do is geared to a belief . |
| 7 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 8 | Much of how and why we react as we do is based on such factors . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 10 | Tt but everything we do is based on this , based on functions . |
| 11 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 12 | It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory . |
| 13 | What we do is prompted by what we believed a minute or a year or a century ago . |
| 14 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 15 | One says that , like all animals , everything we do is dedicated to the maintenance of the species . |
| 16 | Foreign companies with subsidiaries in Britain will be entitled to Alvey largesse , provided the work they do is exploited in Britain and does not end up abroad . |
| 17 | Even if you had a single gene which is terribly important , erm because human beings are complex everything they do is affected by large numbers of genes a number of examples that contradict that . |
| 18 | Everything he did was enriched by a warm concern for other people that inspired affection from even slight acquaintances , and love from his closer colleagues . |
| 19 | For example , if the government alleges that what it did was done in the interests of national security and the court accepts this , the aggrieved party 's action will simply be dismissed . |