Example sentences of "[conj] do [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The nub of the matter is that MacQuillan never had the money to buy a paper in Fleet Street or do battle with the unions . ’ |
| 3 | Is that that one that lives in a caravan or did live in one ? |
| 4 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 5 | The planets and moons that do remain within this range have to be just the right distance from the right size of star , and should also be spinning , otherwise the side facing the star becomes extremely hot , and the other side extremely cold . |
| 6 | Commercialised farms that do rely on labour frequently use seasonal labour . |
| 7 | Those companies that do rely on large numbers of assembly-line workers are beginning to have difficulty finding them . |
| 8 | And if you can just when you come across the odd ones that do start with K just learn those and then instead of learning about a hundred thousand or something |
| 9 | Erm so erm but of course I mean t to make the point because it does n't really contradict what you 're saying Heather because of course the rather more extreme kinds of Protestant Sects that do emphasise for example erm er narrow dogmatic teaching much more so you could say that erm and I think this would perhaps be the answer to , to Oliver 's point to some extent because it goes back to Dean 's original point that erm here we 're we we 're talking about a general theory of groups , but of course some groups can be more groupie than others . |
| 10 | It 's not necessarily in the hi-fi reviewer 's own interests to belittle those differences that do exist of course , but it 's hard to avoid concluding that all too often the range of variations between CD players really is as small as suggested above . |
| 11 | The schemes that do exist in the private market for pensions are related to purchasing power — so inequalities in earnings will be reflected in life after retirement , whilst those without the power to buy a pension will become increasingly dependent on the low rates obtainable from state pensions and means tested benefits . |
| 12 | In the long term , yes , but what we 're currently doing as part of the assessment of the Finmere application is just checking the resources that do exist in those four areas , to , to make sure that we 're still able to meet our targets . |
| 13 | But the , the Carpet Union , there is still a number of people that do believe in it . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the greater majority of bream waters hold bream that do roll at the surface sometime in the course of feeding . |
| 15 | There is not so much advocacy to be done ; much of the work is non-litigious ( such as drafting documents and advising on title ) , and the cases that do get into court tend to turn upon technicalities of company law , taxation , property and wills , or upon questions of company finance , rather than upon controversial questions of fact . |
| 16 | The portions of the application that do have to be emulated can be loaded in via floppy disk . |
| 17 | The portions of the application that do have to be emulated can be loaded in via floppy disk . |
| 18 | We maybe on different sides , but we want to make sure that the O A P s and the people that do have to er er present th pay these bills , I mean if you consider if you think of Calor , Calor Gas , Calor Gas , the way that I actually heat my I pay V A T on that , Calor Gas is is is V A T ed |
| 19 | There are some things that do have to be done to a certain standard . |
| 20 | The jobs that do seem to be safe are those of top management : an official familiar with the agenda for next week 's board meeting said that it does n't include any discussion of personnel changes involving John Akers or any other executive . |
| 21 | So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful . |
| 22 | Partly because of the lack of predators , many island birds have lost the ability to fly ; after all , flying requires enormous energy , and on islands , those that do take to the air could in theory be blown out to sea . |
| 23 | Services that do work to plans tend to be those employing professionally qualified staff , who act as advisers or consultants with regard to pedagogical methods and policy , or provide direct help to youngsters . |
| 24 | Experimental evidence ( e.g. Caramazza , Grober , Garvey & Yates 1977 ; Vonk 1985 ) suggests that such sentences are harder to understand than those with verbs that do conform to their biases , for example : |
| 25 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 26 | The only flower that did grow in abundance was fireweed ( rosebay willowherb ) , which grew rapidly in the years after the war to cover the bomb sites with its purple flowers and to fill the air with its cottony wisps of seeds . ) |
| 27 | Er it 's difficult for people to appreciate today er the amount of political activity that took place during this early thirty period , and it 's pe difficult for people to appreciate the political understanding that did exist over this period . |
| 28 | There was no taboo on incest , any constraints that did exist on hu on human beings ' mating preferences were dictated by the primal fathers . |
| 29 | Then he would remember his own beloved homesite , and whisper to himself of its dour moorland and rough sea coast , and the winds and the rain that did battle with an eagle 's wings . |
| 30 | I mean the very small number of girls that did get to university at the turn of the century had to endure the most extraordinary trials and hardships . |