Example sentences of "do is [verb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman for the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association said : ‘ The best thing people can do is consign this sort of rubbish to the rubbish bin which is where it belongs . ’ |
| 2 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 4 | I think the best thing we can do is leave any talk of work until tomorrow and concentrate on the real reason why we agreed to this evening and get to know one another better . ’ |
| 5 | I be , so one of the things we 're gon na do is publish that information on a regular basis . |
| 6 | What you have started to do is to create this place of support and satisfaction in yourself : you 've begun to make room in your mind for your writer-self . |
| 7 | What we are now trying to do is to explain that variation in cost . |
| 8 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 9 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 10 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 11 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 12 | Another Xerox All you have to do is find another superproduct with a powerful technology to exploit . |
| 13 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll ignore that last bit , Myra ; all I want to do is get this apology for a holiday over and get back to work . ’ |
| 15 | and er I bloody , I said , I said in the end I 've , what we ought to do is lop some part of their anatomy off , like a little digit or something then we can prove they 've been in |
| 16 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 17 | And I think what we ought to do is have another look at you now . |
| 18 | Unionists would move towards the Conservative Party , and all we would be doing is providing another cul-de-sac for the people of Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 20 | one hundred and twenty thousand in the last two years and what we 're doing is putting some money into some sta stabilise the service . |
| 21 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 22 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 23 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 24 | Effectively , however , all this does is to turn all history into a single event — which , paradoxically , dehistoricizes it . |
| 25 | What this announcement does is put that arrangement on a formal basis . |