Example sentences of "[adv] do [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim in so doing is to evaluate the effects on secondary teachers of changes in educational policies , and to spell out the implications of those policies for professional recruitment , training and status in each of the countries studied . |
| 2 | By assigning these additions to two brothers , the epilogue identifies the authors of the Pactus pro tenore pacis as Childebert I and Chlothar I. That it was correct in so doing is shown by the reference to brotherly love ( germanitatis caritas ) in the Pactus pro tenore pacis itself , and by Chilperic I 's citation of the legislation of his father and uncle . |
| 3 | Harriet says that all she basically does is play , play and play and gradually you get better . |
| 4 | And what we shall eventually do is to turn it back , when we 've finished furnishing it , we 'll put the people back in again . |
| 5 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |
| 6 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 7 | The one thing you do not do is to plant your tree and then start looking for something to use for ties , any more than you bash a stake in afterwards and damage the roots . |
| 8 | But the one thing I 'm sure Roxburgh will not do is panic . |
| 9 | What you must NOT do is hold up the edge of the knitting , taking the weight off it , in an attempt to help the linker cast off . |
| 10 | The only thing you will not do is make me worry . ’ |
| 11 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 12 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 13 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 14 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 15 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 16 | The one thing they do not do is to re-examine the original for the tell-tale signs of forgery . |
| 17 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 18 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 19 | What television can not do is convey the rise and fall of the holes and show how undulating the land is . |
| 20 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 21 | What these animals can not do is localize sounds independently of their position relative to the animal 's body . |
| 22 | What they must not do is to get in there at half time and think that they have done their job . |
| 23 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 24 | " The one thing Parliament can not do is to bind its successors " ( Maughan L.J. ) . |
| 25 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 26 | What such issues must not do is clog up the wheels : travelling communications must have clarity and cohesion . |
| 27 | What you are not at liberty to do and what you will not do is storm around , losing your temper in my home . |
| 28 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 29 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 30 | What a pleasant manner can not do is bridge the social gap , not in class but in age . |