Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Dienstbier said the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not yet appear to be a ‘ strong and flexible politician ’ , and indicated he would be acceptable in the post only on condition that President Gustav Husak step down , to be replaced by a non-Communist head of state . |
| 3 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 4 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 5 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 6 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 7 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 8 | I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered . |
| 9 | Voting did not therefore need to be repeated in two polling areas , as the Constitutional Court had ordered in the event that the necessary documentation could not be obtained by the Murcia court . |
| 10 | Lord Osborne said he was satisfied on the evidence that when Ms Sultana went through the formalities of the civil marriage ceremony she did not truly consent to be married to Mr Ahmed . |
| 11 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 12 | The generality of application or the audi alteram partem maxim , and its flexibility in operation , were brought out by Lord Loreburn L.C. , who stated that the maxim applied to ‘ everyone who decides anything , ’ while recognising also that the manner in which a person 's case was heard did not necessarily have to be the same as an ordinary trial . |
| 13 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 14 | The columns displaying prices of licensed dealers ' stocks in the national newspapers did not always appear to be the paid advertising they actually were . |
| 15 | A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone . |
| 16 | No-one loves a winner , they are saying , and everyone knows Neath do not particularly wish to be loved . |
| 17 | What this spirit brought was a confidence that problems can be solved , and do not just have to be lived with . |
| 18 | They do not even have to be rocks deposited under fresh water conditions , because wood and seeds are perfectly capable of drifting long distances before becoming waterlogged enough to sink to the bottom of the sea . |
| 19 | But properties do not even have to be habitable to qualify . |
| 20 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 21 | Haulage contracts do not even need to be in writing . |
| 22 | An object-oriented parallel operating system that is completely portable between all widely used processors , so much so that applications do not even need to be recompiled is the creation of a British company — Tao Systems Ltd of Belsize Park , London NW — which has substantial financial backing from Japan . |
| 23 | An object-oriented parallel operating system that is completely portable between all widely used processors , so much so that applications do not even need to be recompiled is the creation of a British company — Tao Systems Ltd of Belsize Park , London NW — which has substantial financial backing from Japan . |
| 24 | We do not even need to be able to measure the somewhat esoteric concept of surplus , since it is always a one-way reduction . |
| 25 | Data for calculating the thermal history more objectively do not yet seem to be available ( but see Chadwick 1985a ) . |
| 26 | Similarly , the existence of technology-trading networks indicates that R&D and production do not necessarily need to be integrated under one roof to ensure that new products are efficiently produced ( although this is often a sensible course to follow ) . |
| 27 | They do need support , they do need often 24 hour attention , but they do not necessarily need to be in hospital . |
| 28 | Those warrants do not necessarily need to be served by the police . |
| 29 | Poets do not necessarily have to be commentators on the historic present ; there is a world within as well as a world without . |
| 30 | This coupling might not displace your favoured recording of either concerto , but it is worth attention for Accardo 's emphatic proof that you do not necessarily have to be English to interpret English music . |