Example sentences of "[verb] do [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Jerison has done is to reconstruct the probable EQs of extinct animals that now exist only as fossils . |
| 2 | But what I say to do is buy a new chiller and get it on and then all Summer we 'll get this damn problem again . |
| 3 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 4 | Well if she lives down Dawson , all she has to do is get a one O six to Clapton , right ? |
| 5 | All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread . |
| 6 | All the slimmer needs to do is to eat the delicious contents with a slice of bread and some milk . |
| 7 | I think from the work load point of view from Jenny the thing she needs to do is to write the little bit on T G I that references the manual to make sure that the manual is okay . |
| 8 | Almost as though explaining the normal techniques to a med student , he said patiently , ‘ You know , Laddie , that what I want to do is restore the affected joint to its proper position of function . ’ |
| 9 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |
| 10 | So what I want to do is to introduce the basic idea of what the learning does and how the network sort of works underne underneath it . |
| 11 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 12 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 13 | All it seemed to do was circulate the warm turgid air . |
| 14 | What Alexander had decided to do was to send the British Resident Minister , who had been intimately involved in the crisis , up to Venezia Giulia to brief the senior army commanders on every aspect of the delicate political situation which surrounded it . |
| 15 | Right , so what we 're going to do is create a dummy variable to test that hypothesis , right , so if you press the escape key , right , and work your way back towards erm the data processing sort of environment , so go back to the post regression menu through the backtracking menu erm , when you 're in the backtracking menu , go to option six , which is the process plot edit option right , now press the return key in the data processing menu , right , and that will get you to the data processing environment when we can start messing about with our variables . |
| 16 | What we are going to do is differentiate the average product function the average product , right , is the quotient of total product right , and the the amount of labour actually used and as a result if you want to differentiate it you can use a quotient rule of differentiation . |
| 17 | Right , well , good evening , ladies , gentlemen and members of the public , and erm , the first thing I 'd like to do is to ask the youngest of the young ladies at the end of the table , who have come to talk to us , and I 'm not quite sure , let me guess which one , but I reckon that that 's Miss and , and that 's Miss . |
| 18 | Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand . |
| 19 | Now what you 've got to do is use the correct words and phrases and these are finally |
| 20 | Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR . |
| 21 | But what we decided to do was to replace the entire water main erm with erm a double , a double capacity pipeline . |
| 22 | All the leaker managed to do was to provoke a bogus political row . |
| 23 | This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission 's social charter , rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit . |
| 24 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 25 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 26 | What it does do is to combine the particular letters and clauses which are relevant on a specific occasion with the details of the applicant in such a way as to produce the final document . |
| 27 | What the system does do is to provide a continuous flow of information to the selector about the type of books required by the library and the number of books of each type , and it is on this information that the bibliographical decisions are based . |
| 28 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 29 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 30 | Okay Assumptions for Pearson 's are It assumes that there 's an n an approximate linear relationship between , in other words you could cos what it 's trying to do is draw a straight line through it . |