Example sentences of "to do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |
| 2 | He immediately told me that to do a smoothly coned skirt would be vastly expensive in terms of bending and shaping wood , and equally expensive to do as the multi-part mould which he reckoned was necessary because of the protruding hemispheres . |
| 3 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 4 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 5 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 6 | The topic at the moment is what to do about the working poor , particularly those with children . |
| 7 | What does the Minister intend to do about the 1,719 prisoners who are being held in police cells ? |
| 8 | because we would not be able to raise it as a shield in that one respect , now if your Lordship tried and then said well alright we stay the counterclaim is a set off , then what would your Lordship be intending to do about the remaining defences to say we 're not allowed defend our claim er at all on the basis of article eighty five will that be |
| 9 | While it makes much of the commitment to solving the Cyprus and Kashmir problems , presumably in deference to immigrant communities , it says rather less about what the Tory party plans to do about the greatest immediate challenge it will face , the level and duration of the commitment to the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 10 | He was n't sure what to do about the missing woman , wondering where on earth she could be , until a knock at the rear entrance answered the question for him . |
| 11 | what was I gon na say something to do about the racing car |
| 12 | What are our enlightened descendants going to do about the fourth element , Earth ? |
| 13 | But even you do n't know what to do about the third , do you ? |
| 14 | But , late in the evening , he enquired without ceremony ‘ What am I going to do about the direct-grant schools ? ’ |
| 15 | What to do about the high labour turnover ? |
| 16 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 17 | What are we going to do about the bad and how do we propose to build on the good . |
| 18 | He will be joined by local MP Michael Fallon and Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb who yesterday said it was high time Labour told the voters what it was going to do about the continuing problems of congestion and accidents on the A1(M) . |
| 19 | She continues to do for the late Canon in a manner of speaking . ’ |
| 20 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 21 | On the way home he said , ‘ These sincere men think they know what to do for the black man . |
| 22 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 23 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 24 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 25 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 26 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 27 | Yes , it had not been easy knowing what to do for the best . |
| 28 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 29 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 30 | She 'll know what to do for the best . ’ |