Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] do with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do no have the time to go to a La Scala performance or are visiting out of season , must make do with going to the theatre museum ; this normally , but not always , includes a trip to the auditorium . |
| 2 | A few days later , on 8 June , the scheme was approved on two conditions : no unit was to be diverted from the essential defence of the British Isles ; and the new force must make do with a minimum of arms . |
| 3 | Sometimes youngsters must make do with teachers ' worksheets giving summaries of books they should be studying . |
| 4 | For one person to get more , another must make do with less . |
| 5 | Students must make do with two exercise books for the entire year . |
| 6 | We in Scotland must make do with such styles as we can accumulate in our professional careers and , by and large , the only other source of styles for non-statutory deeds is the Encyclopaedia of Scottish Legal Styles . |
| 7 | He 'll make do with his interest-free £250 overdraft from the listening bank . |
| 8 | I 'll make do with slides . |
| 9 | And until he gets real power he 'll make do with deference — subservience even . |
| 10 | Sorry I 've spoilt your expectations … ’ his obsidian eyes darted over her flushed face , framed in its disarray of blonde hair ‘ … though maybe , ’ he paused significantly , ‘ maybe you 'll make do with a temporary substitute ? ’ |
| 11 | Right , Anthea 's not in her office right now , she 's in Eynsham , so it 'll take all of 75 seconds to get there , so she 'll make do with call parking it anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ They might make do with that . ’ |
| 13 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 14 | He carried no weapon save his own sharp needles and scissors , but it occurred to him that he could make do with the slivers of glass from the broken sarcophagus . |
| 15 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 16 | No doubt McDowell could make do with first-order ‘ quasi'-knowledge in a theory of cognitive representations for ‘ lower ’ species ( in something of the form suggested by Field 1978 ) , stopping short of the special problems posed by the diagnosis of the higher-order beliefs and intentions involved in a Gricean or sub-Gricean mechanism ( cf. |
| 17 | The Prime Minister would make do with the Marks & Spencer . |
| 18 | Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps . |
| 19 | She could n't afford it , but no matter ; she would make do with her appallingly riddled stockings for another month . |
| 20 | Since Manning and Upward are in this way for the moment denied us , I shall make do with two other names : Maurice Hewlett and Laurence Binyon . |
| 21 | In Darcy 's Utopia we will make do with listening to the radio . |
| 22 | It is the hardiest breed of all , able to be productive where other cattle could not even survive , and , like other hardy old breeds , it is long-lived and can make do with the poorest of grazing . |
| 23 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 24 | The rest of us can make do with Profile 's fine new compilation ‘ Avanti ! ’ , 11 tracks to prove that Italian dance was more than just a passing fad . |
| 25 | If you can make do with a 200Mb IDE drive , the price drops to £1,940 . |
| 26 | Expanded memory is much slower than Extended memory , so if it can make do with the latter ( and you do n't need Expanded memory for an old DOS program ) , delete it from your CONFIG.SYS . |
| 27 | You can do without carpet but you 've got to have somewhere to sit and the least you can make do with is one sofa or two good chairs . |
| 28 | Instead of completely introjecting the mother and emasculating himself in his unconscious desire to be revenged on her , the believer can make do with an identification with a mythical son who has done just this ( the crucified Christ ) . |