Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 2 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 3 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 4 | What you would do is copy a blank cell . |
| 5 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ The least you could do is take the other end of the Chesterfield , ’ Amanda said crossly . |
| 7 | What a pleasant manner can not do is bridge the social gap , not in class but in age . |
| 8 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 9 | Erm , if of course you 're heavily into recycling , er , what you can do is put the whole pad inside er , the envelope and use a . |
| 10 | Because what they did try and do is buy the catholic club did n't they ? |
| 11 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 12 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 13 | As a result of the uncertainty generated in the private sector by expected movements in these variables the best that the public sector can do is to inform the private sector of its intentions and then act accordingly . |
| 14 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 15 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What you can do is to insert the cardboard backing into the envelope like that and then you put that bit through the rings , and then it becomes a tear pad . |
| 18 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 19 | Without his aid , Edward was bound to negotiate for peace with Scotland ; but the best he could do was to conclude a thirteen-year truce in 1323 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But I do n't like being called a funking animal by a load of nonces who know nothing about me . ’ |
| 23 | What I 'd like is to adopt a multi-racial child . |
| 24 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 25 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 26 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 27 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 28 | Whatever , she certainly would n't have been experiencing the gut-wrenching tension that she was feeling now . |
| 29 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 30 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |