Example sentences of "to do [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do nothing in an active and important manner is a rare skill . |
| 2 | Daisy Chainsaw , for the most part , manages to do none of the above . |
| 3 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll see you at the weekend , then , ’ Leith said lightly , and was once more wanting to do something of a pugilistic nature to her employer when , just as though he lived there , he went to the door with Travis and saw him out . |
| 5 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 6 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 7 | Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times . |
| 8 | compared with the Minister 's adjusted figure , and that even the Association of Yorkshire and Humberside Chambers of Commerce is now calling on the Government to do something about a sinking economy ? |
| 9 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 10 | Erm in the eighteen fifties , in the years immediately preceding the American civil war , the er then American president er was placed under great pressure to do something about the increasing tensions and increasing conflicts between north and south but er he declined to do so . |
| 11 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway erm I think we totally support the thrust of what you 're asking about and I was asked to make a special appeal to County Council to see whether they could assist with this recently established Rural Options Land Bank , the purpose of which is rather extraordinary , but I mean it is defined landowners who have a philanthropic bent to provide the land to do something about the very problem you 've raised . |
| 14 | No one disputes that the Tribune Company , publisher of the Chicago Tribune among other papers , had to do something about the decade-long trickle of losses at the Daily News , America 's oldest tabloid and New York 's largest-circulation newspaper . |
| 15 | Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law . |
| 16 | He will , however , be expected to do something about the severe imbalances that are masked by the wonderful overall figures for economic growth . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 18 | It is inside in the sense of geography , its supposedly stable working-class past implying the moral obligation of society to do something about the fundamental causes of the problems . |
| 19 | Are we trying to achieve , erm unity or bringing children in to do something in a corporate way . |
| 20 | In the second the ‘ stage of conventional morality ’ , the child judges people by their intentions in carrying out something , and then moves on to believe it is a persons duty to do something in a particular way . |
| 21 | What gives you this impression ? 6 The teacher set them to do something in a short time . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously . |
| 23 | A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable . |
| 24 | On the simple computer described above we would have to do something like the following : |
| 25 | Be sensible in your plans , though ; there is no point in forcing yourself to do something after a hard day 's work , for example . |
| 26 | In the ordinary case , the breach of a promise to do something by a certain time can for practical purposes be remedied by the thing being done , even out of time … |
| 27 | In a libertarian world there is no reason for the government to do anything about the poor ; the matter is conveniently left to private charity . |
| 28 | As far as I understand there is not real move to do anything about the current trend for teams to kick the ball from 22 to 22 . |
| 29 | to do anything about the major problems facing the city . |
| 30 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |