Example sentences of "do be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Descriptions of how this is done are found in subsequent chapters .
2 The regime has in fact over-corrected , but the harm which excessive centralisation might do is diminished by the degree of de facto autonomy which many provinces have acquired .
3 Now what we would do is put into a flexible trust , okay ?
4 Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do .
5 Barker was a natural showman , promoting Henry VIII with the declaration that he would burn all the prints of the film within six weeks , and his own sense of the significance of what he had done is echoed in Rachael Low 's description of this as ‘ the first really important feature film . ’
6 Then all that 's got ta be done is chucked in the oven in n it ?
7 At this the lowest level , what is done is done in a compliant way .
8 Such research as has been done is touched upon in Chapter 5 .
9 The total damage done is said to be millions and millions .
10 The ‘ catch ’ is that , even though the time when something is done is decided by the volunteer , he has no cues from clocks , television , or other humans as to what the time really is .
11 Now what we have done is looked at s these causeway relief arches which pass the water from one side of the to the other at .
12 But additionally , and given the enormous importance attached to the equilibration of dignity , not surprisingly , we find reference to a form of self-arbitration , where what they have said and done is judged by reference to their own conceptions of their integrity and dignity , regardless of ‘ popular ’ opinion or the arbitration of specific others .
13 All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller .
14 A much better example of how the basic allocation is to be done is shown in Prowle , Jones & Shaw , and I reproduce it in Table 3. 1 with acknowledgement to them .
15 ‘ What was done was done for Ireland , ’ said Dierdriu .
16 For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism .
17 Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending .
18 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 .
19 Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home .
20 I said all you 've got to do is put in the microwave two minutes that 'll do it I thought oh my goodness .
21 It is my little pet theory about religious poetry that the greatest religious poetry is an act of renunciation and therefore what you have to do is put in what you 're giving away .
22 erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances .
23 All I wanted to do was run for my country , to be part of the action .
24 Then all Kirov had to do was run for cover and wait .
25 They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform
26 You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ?
27 The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor .
28 So what , what , what could it am I right in saying that it 's related to the , the work that you 're doing is related to the particular circumstances the particular problems that people living in flats have had ?
29 Being open and honest about what you are thinking , how you are feeling and why you are doing whatever you are doing is deemed to be efficient and helpful because otherwise people waste precious time and energy trying to ‘ second guess ’ what you are up to .
30 By assigning these additions to two brothers , the epilogue identifies the authors of the Pactus pro tenore pacis as Childebert I and Chlothar I. That it was correct in so doing is shown by the reference to brotherly love ( germanitatis caritas ) in the Pactus pro tenore pacis itself , and by Chilperic I 's citation of the legislation of his father and uncle .
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