Example sentences of "[noun sg] do be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this announcement does is put that arrangement on a formal basis . |
| 2 | All that legislation does is to permit these marriage to end . |
| 3 | Politics in the Balkans always involved small interrelated élites : what communism did was to reinforce this tendency , and not just in the Balkans . |
| 4 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 5 | To do that you 're going to need the good will of the workers within the centre , the local community , the workers within Moat and the different factions within Moat and the one thing that the Tory line did was to unite all those factions against what the county council wanted . |
| 6 | What I want the reader to do is question some of the theories at present circulating in the carp world . |