Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 2 | Harder , but it might not be for you I du n no is it ? |
| 3 | Du n no is he nineteen ? |
| 4 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 5 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 6 | Erm but one of the things they did not like is for erm to have a sales consultant on the medical practice for three weeks using their |
| 7 | An example where the latter part of s.3(1) did not apply is Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 ( DC ) . |
| 8 | But what they do not show is what teenage girls feel . |
| 9 | What the overall figures do not show is the way in which the activity of banking business has changed over the last decade . |
| 10 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 11 | What these boardroom blouses and toerags at the turnstiles do not realise is that football management is not a skill to be acquired through hard work , but a gift from God . |
| 12 | Where statistically significant differences do not exist is between high-achieving men and high-achieving women . |
| 13 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 14 | One person I do not fancy is Luke Skywalker |
| 15 | The one thing you do not do is to plant your tree and then start looking for something to use for ties , any more than you bash a stake in afterwards and damage the roots . |
| 16 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 17 | The one thing they do not do is to re-examine the original for the tell-tale signs of forgery . |
| 18 | What they do not do is to make the case for charging token sums to a small minority of users . |
| 19 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 20 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 21 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 22 | What we do not want is lessons laid down by law . |
| 23 | What we most certainly do not want is a dog with high fearlessness and high sharpness . |
| 24 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 25 | On savings , the one thing that we do not want is a return to the Labour Government 's policies of the 1970s . |
| 26 | ‘ What I do not understand is where is the water ? |
| 27 | What I do not understand is why you do n't love me . ’ |
| 28 | What we do not know is who came to power in Northumbria during Ceolwulf 's temporary deposition nor whether there was any connection between the controversies surrounding Wilfrid and those now involving Acca . |
| 29 | What we do not know is how it squares those beliefs with its later beliefs in market forces , the EC and industrial efficiency . |
| 30 | What we do not know is how far these were typical , but it is worth remembering that the letters of both the Pastons and the Stonors are largely concerned with family concerns rather than national politics . |