Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] a [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 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 7 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 8 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But I do n't like being called a funking animal by a load of nonces who know nothing about me . ’ |
| 16 | What I 'd like is to adopt a multi-racial child . |
| 17 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 20 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 23 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 25 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 26 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 27 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 28 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 29 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 30 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |