Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adj] to do [det] " in BNC.
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1 | In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors . |
2 | The only cost involved may be that of advertising the property and , even if the diocese is reluctant to do this , it should be persuaded it is worthwhile . |
3 | If our Institute is unwilling to do this then it should at least campaign for legislation to restrict the use of the description ‘ accountant ’ in public practice to only qualified accountants with a practising certificate . |
4 | A dead body is liable to do that . |
5 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
6 | Er , and if your Lordship is happy to do that then I can open it now and indicate what the case is about and invite you to take some time . |
7 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
8 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |
9 | If they had a communicable disease and it entailed investigating the vagina to find out , then I suppose the doctor is entitled to do that . |
10 | Bet he 's told him his dad 's supposed to do that . |