Example sentences of "do [be] [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 2 | This warranty is too wide ; all the Vendor can do is warrant that the intellectual property rights listed in the relevant schedule are used in connection with the Business . |
| 3 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 4 | But what they can do is to ensure that the additional factors of instability , caused by the economic hardship produced by the moves to a market economy , are kept to a minimum . |
| 5 | What we have done is to show that the semi-mystical assertion that " minus times minus is plus " is deducible as a consequence of other ( " more obvious " ) axioms of arithmetic . |
| 6 | What 3i has done is demonstrate that the clearing banks in the UK have collectively over forty years ensured that there is access to long-term development capital for British industry . |
| 7 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 8 | What I wanted to do was to ensure that the social security budget was being spent to best effect . |
| 9 | All the left needed to do was to ensure that the next Labour government was a real alternative , and not led by another tedious old right-winger like Callaghan , who had gone back to his farm blaming the lefties . |