Example sentences of "the [noun] to do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think when we lose people , it 's more upsetting if they just suddenly die and we have n't had the opportunity to do the tending and caring . |
| 2 | It was a pity he did n't get the opportunity to do the same against France in the final . |
| 3 | The Knack also provided Crawford with the opportunity to do the sort of daredevil stunts for which he would later become famous . |
| 4 | Imagination you 've got the opportunity to do the call again . |
| 5 | ‘ We told the family how bad he was and won their permission for the vet to do the kind thing . ’ |
| 6 | Frances and Miles went off to the kitchen to do the washing-up ( and , no doubt , to talk annuities ) , leaving Charles to entertain the children . |
| 7 | They are provided centrally in order to make the most effective use of resources and to give line managers the freedom to do the jobs they are paid to do . |
| 8 | He points out that in many areas , especially service industries , organisations have improved their efficiency and effectiveness and increased the perception of quality by getting the clients to do the work — self-service outlets are an obvious example . |
| 9 | ‘ Myself , I am thankful to finish second and thank Williams for giving me the car to do the job . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a squad game and there is still enough ability at the club to do the business and win 90 per cent of their games . |
| 11 | It never says this is the right behaviour or this is the wrong behaviour , it just says the safest behaviour and , and then leaves , leaves the recipient to do the rest . |
| 12 | I only wish I had the courage to do the same as her . |
| 13 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 14 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 16 | Often the attitudes presented reflect the ‘ jobsworth ’ approach where the right to do the job . |
| 17 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 18 | And erm if we attract industry to the town , we 'll attract people to the town to do the jobs and we 'll have the commuting as well . |
| 19 | Inward migrants will include people who come into the district in order to do the jobs that are provided and there are many examples of employers coming to the town and bringing their own people into the town to do the jobs that are brought into the town . |
| 20 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 21 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 22 | It 's not a role that I welcome , although I try hard as a responsible chairman of the group to do the job as well as I possibly can . |
| 23 | Only the brains to do the operations . |
| 24 | However , the covenant will only protect the tenant from interruptions by the landlord and persons claiming under or in trust for it ; therefore covering successors in title or persons having authority from the landlord to do the acts complained of , but not covering the acts of a superior landlord or a predecessor in title of the landlord . |
| 25 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |
| 26 | We have nt got the resources to do the job properly |
| 27 | We 're two short on the top to do the complete cancel . |
| 28 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
| 29 | Fatty Harris , Rutshire 's club secretary , seconded for the day to do the commentary , had had rather too good a lunch in the Doggie Dins ' Tent and was waxing lyrical over the ancient names . |
| 30 | ‘ No doubt you 'd have revelled in the opportunity to play Mr Wonderful on the slopes if the roads had n't been blocked , but frankly I did n't see any reason for giving you the chance to do the same here . |