Example sentences of "do be [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 2 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 3 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 4 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 5 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 6 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 7 | All you 've got ta do is to sit on the bog and go oooaaah |
| 8 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 9 | What we must do is to distinguish between bogus and genuine refugees . |
| 10 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 11 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 12 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 13 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 14 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 15 | What they must not do is to get in there at half time and think that they have done their job . |
| 16 | The very least the world can now do is to read into the legal record the barbarism of the Bosnian war . |
| 17 | All eager students need do is to plough through its well-presented 600 pages and they will emerge as masters too . |
| 18 | Cos the other thing I was gon na do was to go into Lloyds , I must do that some time about this interest on that account cos I reckon it 's very low |
| 19 | They came on him rapidly and powerfully and he decided that all he could do was to circle in a gentle way to indicate that he was not hostile , his heart filled with joy to see his own kind . |
| 20 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 21 | All they could do was to look at her but no one could read Rose 's face and they turned back to their books . |