Example sentences of "[verb] to do [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 3 | Well if she lives down Dawson , all she has to do is get a one O six to Clapton , right ? |
| 4 | All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread . |
| 5 | All the slimmer needs to do is to eat the delicious contents with a slice of bread and some milk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All it seemed to do was circulate the warm turgid air . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now what you 've got to do is use the correct words and phrases and these are finally |
| 17 | Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR . |
| 18 | But what we decided to do was to replace the entire water main erm with erm a double , a double capacity pipeline . |
| 19 | All the leaker managed to do was to provoke a bogus political row . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What the futures market is trying to do is to get an unbiased estimate of 1rs 2 the spot interest rate over period 2 . |
| 23 | But how could she , when what she longed to do was feel the timeless beauty of this place ? |
| 24 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
| 25 | All they had to do was hit a tiny fraction of the total available and they were in business . |
| 26 | , my new work colleague , took us to our new home where he and his wife had organised the house and furniture for us — all we had to do was unpack the 20 crates of personal belongings ! |
| 27 | All she had to do was get a good night 's sleep . |
| 28 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 29 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 30 | Now all he had to do was to convince the mysterious eight twelves to negotiate a settlement . |