Example sentences of "do [adv] be [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no fee involved , it 's a completely free service , all I 'm here to really do today is to have a chat with you , find out what you 're interested in and see if we can situation , is that alright ? |
| 2 | What churches can do well is to provide the location , the opportunity and the safety for people to explore the formation of new relationships and new beginnings . |
| 3 | What we shall do instead is to restrict the definition to one selected sentence type which happens to work , namely , that represented by the schema A is f(X) , where f(X) is an indefinite expression , and represents the minimum syntactic elaboration of a lexical item X for it to function as a complement of the verb to be . |
| 4 | To do so is to help the opponent to win without his having to hit you with a single scoring technique . |
| 5 | The first thing the production company and the agency have to do together is to plan the production and produce an estimate of the production costs . |
| 6 | ‘ What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas [ of particular value to wildlife ] in order to protect the environment . |
| 7 | What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment . |
| 8 | ‘ The thing to do now is to explain the situation as it affects you at present . |
| 9 | All Vologsky had to do now was to fly the Foxbat across the Chinese border and bring her out safely again . |
| 10 | [ … ] What we have chosen to do here is to use a report on the general character of the current debate to clarify certain of the key issues that have to be resolved in the design of a socialist economy . |
| 11 | Now the duties I had to do there was to take the place of what the Provost of the town did before you see . |
| 12 | His purpose in doing so was to create the illusion that major political decisions were not taken by one man , but in a collegiate way , by the representatives of the people . |