Example sentences of "do be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 2 | What we can do is examine the concept of power from a number of different perspectives . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're desperately sick for Colin and now the least we can do is make the play-offs and win them for him , ’ said Whittingham . |
| 5 | I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because |
| 6 | What you must now do is commit the words to memory and take twenty cards from the pack . |
| 7 | All you can do is to notice the spelling when you read . |
| 8 | You do not put oxygen into the water by bubbling-in air bubbles — what you do do is disturb the surface , and create greater gas exchange between air and water through a larger surface area of water being in contact with the air ( either at the surface or ‘ around ’ the bubbles . ) |
| 9 | But , as Jon Edgson says : ‘ All we can do is start the ball rolling , after that it 's up to the individual concerned . |
| 10 | All that we can do is to set the visitor in motion ; but having done so , we can not review his decision . |
| 11 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 12 | Chris Haskins , head of Hull-based Northern Foods , adds : ‘ Under the Thatcher regime , it was always : the market will determine everything and all we 'll do is control the money supply . |
| 13 | What you 've got ta do is get the money of her . |
| 14 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 15 | All you got ta do is turn the oven on to heat the meals up . |
| 16 | But we all we can do is reflect the position of women in society , and I do not think that what 's we 're about and I do not think it 's what the parliamentary Labour party . |
| 17 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What television can not do is convey the rise and fall of the holes and show how undulating the land is . |
| 20 | But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow , near-landlocked waters . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In short there is a reading of Locke that ascribes to Locke a sort of minimum government theory the night watchman theory of government , that all the government can do is protect the lives , liberties and properties erm of the members of the body politic . |
| 24 | What they will do is give the GPs a role to play in allocating resources to the hospital services and will contribute nothing to the delivery of better VFM within the family practitioner services . |
| 25 | But what we can do is give the children all the knowledge that this boy has without the experiences . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Erm , so what I can do is to put the B four here inside of that string comma zero . |
| 28 | After the first two movements , after such great torture , all you can do is let the music flow . |
| 29 | All the computer can do is to reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things . |
| 30 | 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 . |