Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retailer needs to do this in order to predict future sales . |
| 2 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 3 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 4 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 5 | Will ultimately go through the solution that you 're looking at , in terms of optical activity it comes out t' other end , cos light tends to do that , you know it 'll come t' other end and at this end , after going through a length system etcetera , will be a an eyeball . |
| 6 | This research aims to do that and , whilst it will not ‘ value ’ the benefits , these will be itemised and related to those costs and perhaps cheaper ways of producing similar benefits found . |
| 7 | The Labour leader has to do that after the Budget — an art Neil Kinnock never mastered — but it falls to the Shadow Chancellor to reply to the Autumn Statement . |
| 8 | But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance . |
| 9 | Happily carrying on doing that it 's not going to be every enquiry has to do that . |
| 10 | This rarely happens but if the same ferret continues to do this it is advisable to discard it or use it only as a muzzled ferret . |
| 11 | And of course the ego has to do that , I mean if you 're gon na stay alive , the ego has to take account of these internal demands . |
| 12 | I remember doing the Stoppard play Undiscovered Country which was a great help and drama school needs to do more of that sort of thing . |
| 13 | A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread . |
| 14 | I am confident that if my hon. Friend the Minister wants to do this , he can . |
| 15 | It never did and you continued to supply a person who to this date continues to do these hotel sales . |
| 16 | What if some animal learns to do that to us ? |
| 17 | finally , I was forced to walk over to her — and no self-respecting falconer likes to do this . |
| 18 | Normally the police then trace the owner through registration documents and the garage offers to do any necessary repairs . |
| 19 | Underwater animals have a problem on focusing because light travelling through water is not bent by the cornea , and the lens has to do all the work . |