Example sentences of "to do [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it to do so the major unions would have to relinquish much of their power . |
| 2 | Gerd clearly is very apprehensive of this place , wo n't enter here , and if forced to do so the terrible event described in the next section occurs automatically , right in the doorway . |
| 3 | On his failure to do so the local authority carried out the necessary work and served written demands on 31 May 1984 and 25 April 1985 for the costs incurred . |
| 4 | ‘ Terrorism is to be condemned from whatever quarter and in an effort to do so the same rules of descriptive terminology should be applied to all victims , ’ Mr McMichael added . |
| 5 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 6 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 8 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 9 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 10 | They may become apathetic , unable to do even the simplest task . |
| 11 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 12 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 13 | It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job . |
| 14 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 15 | That " of course " tells us that even if women were in reality doing other things besides typesetting , almost all commentators were nevertheless agreed that there was such a thing as a " true compositor " who could handle every process of the trade , and that women were being trained to do essentially the simplest part of the work . |