Example sentences of "[adv] does be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So does being a salmon . |
| 2 | So does being patronised . |
| 3 | Harriet says that all she basically does is play , play and play and gradually you get better . |
| 4 | But it does n't , it just does Is it forty thirty degrees ? |
| 5 | What he nor what he normally does is he , he grabs it off of you , and go run away with it . |
| 6 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been through so much more trouble than Sean , but he 's famous and nothing he ever does is secret . |
| 8 | ‘ He means well , but all he ever does is try to grab me and take me home . ’ |
| 9 | I know , I mean er I mean yeah I 've got used to her sort of like criticizing everything and everyone in sight cos I mean that 's all she ever does is to criticize and complain . |
| 10 | And what it also does is is as you call off the numbers if you 've got . |
| 11 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |
| 12 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |
| 13 | So what we can what it effectively does is count sort of sub-patterns within the whole pattern and how well we 're recognizing those . |
| 14 | Suggestions that the Kuwaitis know something no-one else does were played down by analysts , still desperately clinging to fading hopes of Lloyds Bank emerging with a rival offer next week . |
| 15 | The Third Annual Punch Egothon ( Spring Edition ) : while it presumes to expose the year 's most overbearing , vain , egocentric celebrities , all it actually does is to unwittingly credit these attributes to your own good selves . |
| 16 | The way this works has been once more illuminated by Mr Frye , who notes that though the line from Charles Kingsley 's ballad about the ‘ cruel , crawling foam ’ ( which swallows a girl drowned by accident ) could be censured by rationalistic critics as the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ — thinking nature is alive — what the phrase actually does is to let realism aspire for a second to higher modes , to give to the drowned Mary ‘ a faint coloring of the myth of Andromeda ’ . |