Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's a bit grim if all you want to do is fit an upgrade board . |
| 2 | Having loaded your game for the very first time , the last thing you want to do is read an instruction sheet this size . |
| 3 | Then I 'd be looking after you for both products and what I want to do is have a look at all the standard bearings you take to see if there is potential for a supply . |
| 4 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 5 | They 've already lost the centre half the last thing they want to happen is to lose a centre forward . |
| 6 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 7 | Basically what I like to do is have a conversation about the project and then get the designer to come up with an answer . |
| 8 | If all you aim to do is stop a problem behaviour then there is a strong chance you will be successful with that behaviour . |
| 9 | So now what they 've done is playing a match . |
| 10 | A third person may resent the waste of money and prefer to have been given a bonus to spend as he wishes . |
| 11 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
| 12 | Consider in this light the following modification to one of the other examples given above ; all we have done is to add a group of things ( " kinds of images " ) of which the relevant phrase can be treated as a part : There are various kinds of images which can be explored . |
| 13 | The approach we have adopted is to provide an overview of current practice , and to reinforce this with examples from as wide a spectrum of opinion as possible . |
| 14 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 15 | " Rain occurs when cold and warm fronts meet and all you need to do is create a source of low temperature to generate precipitation " . |
| 16 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 17 | well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year |
| 18 | what we really need to do is keep an eye , if it looks like you keep leaking sugar out , |
| 19 | Then all I need to do is to find a printer driver for Spike 's laser printer at work |
| 20 | All you need to do is drill a hole into the back of the engine to take a piece of thin wire , then fold the banner in half and glue it to the wire with PVA glue . |
| 21 | All they need to do is write a song about a hotel and , er , walk around with an armful of very long fish indeed , and America is theirs . |
| 22 | What we need to do is to add a drug called Anapril Which is otherwise known as Inavase and somewhere , but somewhere we have a Brilliant , it 's gone again . |
| 23 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 24 | ‘ What we have to do is create a culture in which appointing women to senior jobs is easier , ’ he says . |
| 25 | All you have to do is create a batch file PERIOD.BAT containing the lines ECHO . |
| 26 | All you have to do is hire a plane out of here and go back south . |
| 27 | The revolutionary ‘ heat up ’ technology means all you have to do is press a button and fifteen minutes later you 'll have a perfectly warmed bottle . |
| 28 | Erm , all you have to do is dial a phone number that 's . |
| 29 | If you want to get hold of the Mega Disk in 5.25-inch format , all you have to do is send a cheque or postal order for £1 ( made payable to PC Wise Ltd ) to : PC Wise Ltd , Dowlais Top Business Park , Dowlais , Merthyr Tydfil , Mid Glamorgan CF48 2YY . |
| 30 | All you have to do is send a couple more things by messenger . ’ |