Example sentences of "do be [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
| 5 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 6 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
| 7 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 8 | One of the first things that needed to be done was to get a short survey of existing conditions , and with the help of all departments the following summary was made : Burma Today |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now what I 'm proposing to do is to issue a revised programme in respect of the afternoon session this afternoon , which will take in some of the business that er has has already fell off which would be at the end of the private session this afternoon so we 'll try and get in er rule twenty Regions in their Manage and their Management which will take in three motions , thirty six , thirty seven and forty and then we 'll turn , hopefully , to the Social Security Payments Resolutions , you 'll remember that they fell off , composite two eight three , motions three seven nine , three eight five and three eight six . |
| 11 | Best thing to do is to draw a little picture erm so what does volts measure ? |
| 12 | The first thing to do is to form a realistic picture of how you want your physical shape to change . |
| 13 | Usually all the court is asked , or needs , to do is to authorise a particular course of treatment where the person or body whose consent is requisite is unable or unwilling to do so . |
| 14 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |
| 15 | What the futures market is trying to do is to get an unbiased estimate of 1rs 2 the spot interest rate over period 2 . |
| 16 | As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure . |
| 17 | The first thing to do is to have a major component of the reading section to include dyslexia , with erm instruction of trainee teachers , not only in how to recognise the problem , but also how to do something about it , and how to use the education system to bring support for parents and pupils . |
| 18 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 19 | All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread . |
| 20 | What A Present View forces us to do is to reconsider a traditional equation between humanism and liberalism . |
| 21 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 22 | Essentially , what the firm is doing is to reap an additional return on the capital already invested at home in developing the product by transferring its know-how across frontiers . |
| 23 | However , what we can do immediately and are in the process of doing is to introduce a statutory instrument to increase the grant level to 90 per cent . |
| 24 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 25 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 26 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 27 | One of the most important things the VBK did was to start a privately-run school of art for women in 1868 . |
| 28 | What it does is to send a tight beam of information up to a satellite . |