Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst accepting that ‘ inclination ’ was absent I could not agree that blacks lacked the intellect to do well at school and my work was , in a way , intended to lay bare as false such assumptions . |
| 2 | He lacked the self-confidence to do more . |
| 3 | Lindsey also finds that citation counts favour the scientist doing work in the mainstream or dominant paradigm . |
| 4 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 5 | And of course that also meant she could n't possibly spare the time to do her usual singing spot in the club . |
| 6 | To enable the miller to do this more easily the arms or stocks swept to within a couple of feet of the ground . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , you pratt , I had to swim the bastard did n't I. ’ Yanto grunted . |
| 8 | & G. 253 , ‘ the payments made by the plaintiff were not voluntary , but were made in order to induce the company to do that which they were bound to do without them . ’ |
| 9 | The jury which made the award did not know that 56-year-old Susie Quintana had lost her long fight for life the day before . |
| 10 | Whoever made the protest did so against a state which proclaimed its non-existence , and against the state 's claim to lose citizens ' lives in a war whose existence was not officially announced within Libya . |
| 11 | And second , how dare she imply that those hundreds of thousands of people with a spinal injury throughout the world are not walking because they lack the will to do so . |
| 12 | They lack the flexibility to do more than drag or pull on clothes . |
| 13 | She did n't hurry , using the time to do some serious thinking . |
| 14 | This is concerned with aesthetic aspects and it is not sufficient that the article simply looks pretty or pleasing but the eye-appeal of the article should be such that persons acquiring or using the article do so because of the appearance of articles made to the design . |
| 15 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 16 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 17 | ‘ So just make sure you get the bastard if I 'm not given the chance to do the job myself . ’ |
| 18 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 19 | Fleetwood Mac , after signing the current deal with Warners , was given the opportunity to do individual projects within a certain budget . |
| 20 | Would they make these distinctions in their own speech when given the opportunity to do so ? |
| 21 | Additionally , they do have continuity of employment and can be given the opportunity to do extra hours whenever possible . |
| 22 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 23 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 24 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 25 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
| 26 | And given the fact do n't forget , it 's always worth remembering this and I 've I 've made , I 'll be making the point later on . |
| 27 | Set up in I 978 with the twin missions of keeping Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon and helping the Lebanese government to control the Palestinians there , it was never given the strength to do either . |
| 28 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |
| 29 | When a manager is given the authority to do something , it is automatically presupposed that he has the ability to do it , the facilities that he needs and that the desired results will be achieved . |
| 30 | He liked her , she knew , although he never seemed to gather the courage to do anything about it . |