Example sentences of "do is [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 2 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 3 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 4 | What you would do is copy a blank cell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
| 7 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 8 | ‘ What this guy will do is get a demoralized sales organisation revitalised , hopefully at the same time that the company 's Alpha technology begins to roll out in volume , ’ said John Jones , analyst at Salomon Brothers . |
| 9 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 10 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |