Example sentences of "we have [verb] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 2 | ‘ All we had to do was take a basketful of poison-tipped bamboos into the mountains and stake them diagonally into the ground , right across the width of the valley . |
| 3 | In James Watson 's account ( 1970 ) of the discovery of the structure of DNA — where the non-scientist expects to find strictly-controlled and logically-sequenced reasoning — there is an element of play : ‘ All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play ’ ( ibid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That the long-term unemployment figures are much lower than they were bears testimony to the fact that many of our pledges and the policies that we have implemented are having a positive effect on the ground in relation to the individuals about whom Opposition Members spoke with such understandable feeling and passion . |
| 6 | ‘ What we have to do is create a culture in which appointing women to senior jobs is easier , ’ he says . |
| 7 | All we have to do is to propose a few initial targets , and guidelines , to get it launched . |
| 8 | Note that to get the divisions to operate as we wish , all we have to do is to impose a transfer price and then let them get on with it . |
| 9 | you may say , ‘ all we have to do is buy a female . |