Example sentences of "do [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Church ‘ D' is a black church , now seventeen years old . |
| 2 | That 's already done in n it ? |
| 3 | Yeah well I say once the thing 's done , then it 's done in n it ? |
| 4 | And I thought well that way it 's done in n it ? |
| 5 | Or five six seven and that 's what you wan na do in n it ? |
| 6 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 7 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 8 | All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow . |
| 9 | ‘ The least you could do is take the other end of the Chesterfield , ’ Amanda said crossly . |
| 10 | That this will not do is what I have just argued . |
| 11 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 12 | All we can do is plant and hope . |
| 13 | She has n't stopped complaining since that shopping centre went up , but , like , with people like that all you can do is listen and sympathize . |
| 14 | What the media should not do is cause friction and division within society and especially it should not encourage opposition or resistance to government decrees . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The most an artist can do is to limit the amounts which are paid to a well-known producer . |
| 17 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 18 | If you produce a proposal , the first thing a lot of British engineers will do is tell you what 's wrong with it . |
| 19 | All you can do is wait until your stepfather gets the will admitted to probate . |
| 20 | What I can do is , I can go back and see if his car 's still there . |
| 21 | What I 'd do is stay on the other side of the room so I would n't get sucked through it . |
| 22 | ‘ If all you can do is swear — , ‘ For Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If your nature is fire , all you can do is burn . ’ |
| 24 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 25 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 26 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 27 | The one thing they do n't do is taste like wine . |
| 28 | Having perfected this petulant stance , all he can do is reiterate it — with a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the onset of self-parody : ‘ Stop Me if You Think You 've Heard This One Before ’ , ‘ Sweet and Tender Hooligan ’ , where the chorus is simply ‘ et cetera , et cetera ’ … |
| 29 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 30 | One thing she can do is to make appointments to the state 's numerous policy-making commissions and boards . |