Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [adj] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aside from the sports hall there are outside facilities , many of which are rather too cold to do in winter . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , the white people who own the plantations are much too lazy to do the work themselves and that is why they buy black slaves from Africa to do it for them . |
| 3 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 4 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 5 | you 're never too old to do anything . |
| 6 | The requirement implied in this formulation , that I am always morally obliged to do the best I can , is accepted as reasonable by some commentators , while it is thought of as unreasonably demanding by others . |
| 7 | However , the editorial staff are often too busy to do the work and an outside expert is called in to write the piece in consultation with both sides . |
| 8 | Obviously they will be much more willing to do this if they already have plenty of spare liquidity . |
| 9 | We can negotiate access to our land and we will be only too pleased to do so but whilst you are killing the fox er and at the end of the day , it is not on . |
| 10 | If there 's any way I can make up for what 's happened , Mr Calder , then I shall be only too pleased to do it . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not really keen to do this ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not really inclined to do a post-mortem on ‘ Provision ’ , other than to say that I acknowledge that it was less successful and less fun than the previous album , ’ he says in a most matter-of-fact voice . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm just as happy to do a granny 's hair , ’ he said cheerfully . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a stud farm , and as I was saying I 'm usually too shattered to do more than crawl into bed at the end of the day . |
| 15 | He seems completely secure in the knowledge that I 'm far too soppy to do him any harm . |
| 16 | images or whatever , are n't so much to do with misogyny , some horrible male plot , some patriarch or conspiracy , it 's to do with the way our society is run and I think that 's , we look far more at class . |
| 17 | All those who were doing Advanced Level French were encouraged to go , and most of them were only too glad to do so , because the trip was both cheap and co-educational . |
| 18 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |
| 19 | That you would feel that something had gone wrong if you were no longer able to do any physics . |
| 20 | For she can not raise herself , her limbs are no longer able to do their work . |
| 21 | It is all too easy to do this , especially if we know no other ways of praying than our own . |
| 22 | Erm a lot of employers are looking at self funding because the m They can manage their own money and it 's much more efficient to do so and then they also have a lot more control over the management of the claims themselves because they select their own management corporation . |
| 23 | Oh God , I do n't know how all the hair , how hairdressers could stick doing other people 's ha , I think your i , your own is so much easier to do because you ac , you do it your own way . |
| 24 | In practice , however , this is generally more difficult to do . |
| 25 | However , this is not always easy to do because , as I have already said , most disputes are more or less polycentric . |
| 26 | A further limiting factor is that the plaintiff bears the burden of proof ; he has to show that the defendant was negligent and this is not always easy to do . |
| 27 | This is not as difficult to do as it sounds , simply because of the very broad maxima and minima . |
| 28 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 29 | This is one advantage of having an external control unit — the temperature rise is not only easy to do , but can be made slow or swift according to species . |
| 30 | The Telegraph , too , implies that British can be neatly distinguished from Irish , but one of the complexities of Britain and Ireland is that it is not that easy to do so . |