Example sentences of "do what the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 2 | Predictions have value of course because these are things which affect climate and affect people 's lives , but also making a prediction is a way of trying to verify whether the understanding that we think we have about how the system works can actually be translated into equations which are put on a computer , and then when you let this go it in fact s does indeed do what the real world does . |
| 3 | But if you do n't do what the other lasses tell you to , you 're called a softie or a shit or something like that . |
| 4 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 5 | Well they 'd basically do what the British troops would do but they would n't lose much hate against them would they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Got ta do what the big man says . ’ |
| 7 | But I wan na do what the Three Miners do in Lancaster do n't they ? |
| 8 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 9 | " A Great Russian " put out a flysheet in St Petersburg in July 1861 which argued that " The educated classes must take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the incapable government and into their own " ; otherwise , " patriots will be compelled to call upon the people to do what the educated classes refuse to do " . |
| 10 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 11 | That is to do what the Royal Family has always done supremely well , to meet foreign dignitaries as Britain 's ambassadors . |
| 12 | The teams waited in company ranks , to do what the British infantry has always excelled at : firing aimed shots faster and more accurately than the enemy , in any conditions . |
| 13 | Well I think this war the aim of this war is to achieve erm minimum casualty , and by doing what the allied forces are doing by denying the Iraqui forces the logistics such as transportations and communication system is very vital to reduce the power of the enemy and then you can force him to retreat , or you can weaken the army that will result in minimum casualty for the allied forces . |
| 14 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 15 | In November 1945 , she went to the B–17 graveyard in Arizona , where the breakers succeeded in doing what the Nazi flak and fighters had failed to do — destroy Mary Alice . |
| 16 | They say they 're only doing what the local council would do if it was allowed . |
| 17 | He did what the established artist ordered , and felt the ignominy of it , of what his instruction had turned into — a succession of orders . |
| 18 | The Snotlings always do what the nearest unit of Orcs or Goblins does — cheerfully imitating their neighbours ' actions . |
| 19 | Time and again they argued , with the son wanting the land sold on the open market , and old Luther arguing that he would ‘ do what the bloody hell I think fit with me own land ! ’ |
| 20 | is abolished the taper will be changed so that , instead of people over social security levels losing 15p in the £1 , they will lose 20p , thereby penalising people who are struggling to lift themselves out of poverty , provide pensions for themselves and do what the Conservative party always preaches — stand on their own two feet . |
| 21 | It does what the Tory ladies ca n't do , which is to name women 's fear of men . |