Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 4 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 5 | Should one warhorse be slain the wagon can still move but its speed is reduced to 4″ . |
| 6 | The number of images per second needed to make them merge is called the flicker fusion frequency . |
| 7 | ‘ If you have spent a day at the stadium , the one thing you do n't need is to spend an evening at the theatre . |
| 8 | The fault element is fairly substantial , since the Lawrence definition refers to an obvious and serious risk of at least substantial damage to property : there will be few cases where only such damage , and no risk to personal safety , is involved ; moreover , as argued above , a major reason for having rules of the road which all drivers should know is to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths resulting . |
| 9 | Government grants , which have supported the production of plonk that drains straight into the EC wine lake , are being systematically cut , and the only way these guys will survive is to make a product the public wants . |
| 10 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 11 | Jane Fowler asks why only 9 per cent of women who can benefit are taking the option There are still too many doctors who will say ‘ I 'm afraid it 's just your age , my dear ’ or ‘ You 'll just have to live with it' |
| 12 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 13 | What we can do is examine the concept of power from a number of different perspectives . |
| 14 | What the hon. Member should do is to draw the matter to the attention of the Serjeant at Arms , and it will be investigated further . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 17 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're desperately sick for Colin and now the least we can do is make the play-offs and win them for him , ’ said Whittingham . |
| 19 | I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | What you must now do is commit the words to memory and take twenty cards from the pack . |
| 23 | What you would do is copy a blank cell . |
| 24 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 25 | All you can do is to notice the spelling when you read . |
| 26 | You do not put oxygen into the water by bubbling-in air bubbles — what you do do is disturb the surface , and create greater gas exchange between air and water through a larger surface area of water being in contact with the air ( either at the surface or ‘ around ’ the bubbles . ) |
| 27 | But , as Jon Edgson says : ‘ All we can do is start the ball rolling , after that it 's up to the individual concerned . |
| 28 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 29 | All that we can do is to set the visitor in motion ; but having done so , we can not review his decision . |
| 30 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |