Example sentences of "[noun sg] to do [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I had no mandate to do this from the council . |
| 2 | But , on the whole , he prefers to empower the police , by commission rogatoire to do much of the work on his behalf . |
| 3 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 4 | They ask the Duke to do away with the Act , because it will turn the Atholl Highlanders into slaves , and if he will not , they will fight to the last drop of their blood . ’ |
| 5 | — if there is limited scope to do this in the pension scheme the spotlight should focus on the adequacy of the company 's keyman life cover . |
| 6 | Encourage the interviewee to do most of the talking . |
| 7 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 8 | allow the candidate to do most of the talking , |
| 9 | Both parties accepted that the court had jurisdiction to do this despite the expert clause . |
| 10 | saying you 're not in a position to do that in the moment or you would n't want |