Example sentences of "do is [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we can do is make sure adequate information is available so they know the likely effects . ’ |
| 2 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 3 | But I 've got , what I 've got ta do is repair that other coop |
| 4 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 5 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 6 | So , what you 're gon na do is to multiply sixty four point eight by |
| 7 | Oh all you got ta do is to hold that white , hold both ends of it and pull it , it 'll come out . |
| 8 | the erm the displayed decoded it 's actually mounted next to the kit and all we 'll do is take twenty four volts out , volts out , they 'll take the , take the data off the kit itself and then just bring twenty four volts out |
| 9 | All that natural selection can do is accept certain new variations , and reject others . |
| 10 | What it must now do is issue some clear guidelines on the manner in which doctors involve themselves — directly or indirectly — in promoting unproved remedies to the general public . |
| 11 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 12 | What countless new churches have done is to take these helpful headings and develop what goes on under each one in a way that is flexible . |
| 13 | What Lednor and Versloot have done is to unify these unrelated chemical curiosities by suggesting one underlying mechanism . |
| 14 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 15 | All you need to do is dial 0891 121 PLUS the three numbers by the name of your nominated sportsman or woman . |
| 16 | What they 're ac what they 're trying to do is coordinate enough local parties with the same poster that they can make a block booking I would have thought . |
| 17 | ‘ All we ask them to do is to visit any Royal Bank Branch , answer a few questions — and we 'll provide a quotation within three days , ’ said Norman . |
| 18 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 19 | All you have to do is answer two simple questions linked with Merseyside derbies . |
| 20 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions , complete the following sentence , ‘ If I had bigger breasts , the first thing I 'd do would be … , ’ and send your answers in on a fax with coupons from any three GenTech products . |
| 21 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions on the coupon provided and send it to : Ian Rush Competition , Liverpool Echo , Old Hall Street , Liverpool L69 3EB . |
| 22 | To connect the segments all you have to do is attach two different transceivers to the MIL 100C . |
| 23 | All we have to do is send some nice flowers to each of his girlfriends . |
| 24 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 25 | If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes . |
| 26 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 27 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 28 | Then Miguel said in a strangled sort of voice , ‘ When all I want to do is get blind drunk , I have to play the host . |
| 29 | What God wants to do is take these little deaths in our lives and turn them into fruitfulness . |
| 30 | What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation . |