Example sentences of "do be [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 All you can do is to notice the spelling when you read .
3 All that we can do is to set the visitor in motion ; but having done so , we can not review his decision .
4 The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made .
5 What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way .
6 Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it .
7 ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’
8 All we and they can do is to resist the degeneration of a justified action of international collective security into a United States ' imperial ego-trip , to stop the affair getting further out of hand , and in doing so to prevent the UN , the only available base for world order , from falling into lasting discredit .
9 I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need .
10 Erm , so what I can do is to put the B four here inside of that string comma zero .
11 All the computer can do is to reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things .
12 At the time of writing , all I can do is to encourage the reader not to despise prophecies , but to test everything , pay attention , look and see whether these things come to pass : test the fruit .
13 What they do not do is to make the case for charging token sums to a small minority of users .
14 In order for the UK to emerge successfully out of recession , the last thing the government should do is to make the acquisition of new skills and ideas , through education and training more expensive . ’
15 Unfortunately the mouse does n't eliminate the keyboard completely , the basic information still has to be fed into the computer but what is does do is to make the manipulation of that information much simpler .
16 What these things can do is to enhance the quality of life by helping us to transmute ‘ stress ’ into positive challenges , thus preventing the onset of apathy or even depression .
17 The most an artist can do is to limit the amounts which are paid to a well-known producer .
18 The first thing we must do is to defeat the MacSharry proposals that target British farm workers , and particularly those relating to sheepmeat , which represent a direct attack on those who work in British agriculture — not merely those who own or rent farms but those employed on them .
19 What some researchers have done is to shift the significance of their findings away from such socially precise conditions , and to claim a kind of extra-social status for their own conventions by associating them with supposedly general logical qualities .
20 The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is .
21 The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is .
22 If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ .
23 Fish are very demanding for the draughtsman because one can not put them into an attractive or anthropomorphic pose ; what can sometimes be done is to show the scenery where the fish was caught .
24 What remains to be done is to consider the relevance of what Wittgenstein says to the issues raised earlier in this paper .
25 Clearly , therefore , there is no way in which oxygen can be obtained without any water loss : the best that can be done is to minimize the loss .
26 Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily .
27 The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable .
28 For various reasons they were unable to attend this meeting , and so all the arresting officers could do was to take the names of those who were present .
29 The last service Miller could do was to write the script of The Misfits for her .
30 Once you have passed the framing stage the only job left for you to do is to finish the back and make it as airtight as possible , to prevent any damp reaching the pressed flower material .
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