Example sentences of "[vb -s] to do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He holds a rather higher view of individual intelligence than Taylor , arguing that the person who has to do that job every day is the one most likely to know how to do it . |
| 2 | The Labour leader has to do that after the Budget — an art Neil Kinnock never mastered — but it falls to the Shadow Chancellor to reply to the Autumn Statement . |
| 3 | Then the cat yells and he remembers he has n't fed it yet and he has to do that before he goes . |
| 4 | Now , this contribution is not direct , it 's indirect in the sense that males , a male for example who is provisioning a wife who is pregnant is not directly invent investing in the offspring clearly you ca n't do that she has to do that , cos the offspring 's inside her body , but indirectly he may be feeding his wife , protecting her and providing for her in , in a way that is absolutely critical to her reproductive success too . |
| 5 | And of course the ego has to do that , I mean if you 're gon na stay alive , the ego has to take account of these internal demands . |
| 6 | Cos it has to do that . |
| 7 | Happily carrying on doing that it 's not going to be every enquiry has to do that . |
| 8 | Underwater animals have a problem on focusing because light travelling through water is not bent by the cornea , and the lens has to do all the work . |
| 9 | I was gon na ask is you know that he ha she has to do all these long hours . |
| 10 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 11 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 12 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 13 | A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread . |
| 14 | He has to do much interviewing and paper work , and his advocacy is confined to the comparatively small cases . |
| 15 | If Greece is to shape a coherent future for itself , it has to do three hard things . |
| 16 | there 's hardly enough for two in and then she has to do another two only , only she ca n't pour it in after it 's . |
| 17 | But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |
| 19 | To compete with the more than 2,000 commercial banks which have sprung up in Russia since then , Sberbank has to do more than teach its staff to smile . |
| 20 | He has to do more than they do , and he has to keep it up for much longer . |
| 21 | if you look at the cure of erm th the Blind Man of Bethsiedum which happened a little earlier , a similar thing happens when Jesus cures his sight , he ca n't see at first and Jesus has to do some more work on him with spit , spittle and er you know the , but there 's something behind that it 's not just a er a nature miracle , sorry a healing miracle overcoming physical ailments , that 's spectacular in itself but the can take something else on board here without the attitude of people and their willingness to accept who Jesus was and what his details of participant Bartiamaus had been given the vision he 'd been given was more than just his eyesight . |
| 22 | Much has been made of the need to question the impact of elderly medical care but it is clear that , unlike other areas of counselling , it is the counsellor who has to do this rather than the counsellee . |
| 23 | As the man who has to do most of the negotiating on single market measures , I know that there is still a long way to go . |
| 24 | No one , least of all Wittgenstein , wants to do that . |
| 25 | And here there 's potentially big trouble , because the way he wants to do that is by taxing the Copts more . ’ |
| 26 | I think if you 've got somebody who 's got a er a solicitor or an accountant then you need to establish why he wants to talk to them and also er if he , if he 's adamant that he wants to do that , find out who he is and ask if you can speak to him as well , or you can explain erm you know what the , what , what you 're doing with the client . |
| 27 | No , nobody wants to do that . |
| 28 | Who wants to do that travelling every day anyway ? |
| 29 | Not , we wan na increase sales because everybody wants to do that , but if we 've got ta increase sales , by what ? |
| 30 | Yet at the same time President Clinton claims he wants to do all he can to complete the Uruguay round of GATT trade talks , and is backing the appointment as GATT 's new director-general of Peter Sutherland , an Irish former commissioner of the EC who has just the sort of political push to get a trade deal done . |