Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] do [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , each cell must have a set of instructions — possibly analogous to genetic information — which lists what every cell must do in every position . |
| 2 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 3 | Oh , this car could do with a car wash as well could n't it ? |
| 4 | Baydon Star 's Ascot victim Cadency could do with a stronger gallop than at Huntingdon last time to help him settle , but he can justify the journey from Newmarket for the Scottish Power Handicap Hurdle . |
| 5 | This chef could do with a Fish Fortnight at the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine . |
| 6 | ‘ We hate to detain our most welcome guests , especially when they have … ’ he looked Anna May up and down as if his mind could do with a good Chinese laundering ‘ … other urgent business to attend to . ’ |
| 7 | The row over what Labour would do with the water industry is a graphic first flare-up in that debate . |
| 8 | It is not just a historic document of immense important , it is a fascinating insight into what a really great pianist can do to the music we all know so well . |
| 9 | And then , finally , look at what Equity can do for the successful plaintiff — the ‘ remedy ’ , the ‘ relief ’ which it can give him . |
| 10 | His Etonian vowels give him a peculiar aural resemblance to Brian Johnston of Test Match Special ( imagine Johnners talking about what an axe can do to the flesh and you will have some idea of just how disorienting this is ) . |
| 11 | All the archaeologist can do on the line of this new road is to hurriedly record features and salvage finds . |
| 12 | Access Opinions Ltd. asked a number of Labour Members for their views on taxation and what the Chancellor should do in the Budget . |
| 13 | FOREIGN exchange dealers who were imagining what John Smith as Chancellor might do to the value of the pound if Labour wins the election , were yesterday ambushed instead by one Antonio Cavaco Silva , prime minister of Portugal . |
| 14 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 15 | Amdahl hopes its part of the exercise will do for the top-end of the Unix market what Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc are doing for low-end and desktop Unix . |
| 16 | Without in any way prejudging what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will do in the Budget , I seem to recall that the last Labour Government — on the back of a huge borrowing requirement — cut taxes just in advance of the 1979 election . |
| 17 | Frederica will do as an example to illustrate the difficulties of writing about strangeness . |
| 18 | At this point and with a sigh of profound relief , there being nothing else a true scientist could do under the circumstances , psychiatrists the world over dismissed Eysenck , and his findings , on the grounds that Eysenck is a racist sonuvabitch . |
| 19 | ‘ The room could do with a turn-out . ’ |
| 20 | Daddy could do with a nice little doze I know that . |
| 21 | It was a shock to see the bare evidence of what that kind of captivity could do to a man , and feel the sense of despair at what he had lost . |
| 22 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 23 | You had better get Fisher to plain [ sic ] a very thin teak board the size of the large books for protection , and a common book cover from the work room will do for the protection of the other side , spreading the four parts of the Synopsis over and sealing the whole in brown paper . |
| 24 | We need to know what a teacher can do in a crisis that could be called teaching . |
| 25 | Well I think grandma can do without the extra work . |
| 26 | He does not know what a hyena can do to a human body . ’ |
| 27 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 28 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 29 | It was amazing , she thought when he had left the room , what food , wine and a sensational smile could do for a girl . |
| 30 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |