Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [conj] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 2 | Jones finished off by saying : ‘ The good thing about English football is that they do n't roll about the pitch if they are not hurt . |
| 3 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 4 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 5 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
| 6 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 7 | The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help . |
| 8 | Another plus-point of Ark is that you do n't have to duplicate formulae on each row of data . |
| 9 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 10 | The tragedy is that he did n't need any ; he had more than enough kudos of his own from his motor racing , ’ she said sadly , ‘ but that 's the way he thought . ’ |
| 11 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 12 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 13 | ‘ What distinguishes us from the rest of the industry is that we do research to prove the claims we make , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Your only chance of living is if you do what I say . ’ |
| 15 | I mean that that 's another alternative is that we do n't bother with pictures . |
| 16 | At the outset of my investigation one of my civil servants said to me : ‘ My test of the review is whether you do anything about the Death Grant . ’ |
| 17 | The advantage of Wysiwyg is that you do not have to keep switching from one to the other . |
| 18 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 19 | The problem with these street preachers is that you do n't get the choice not to hear them . ’ |
| 20 | The only defence usually available to a valuer is that he did not act as an expert , but as an arbitrator in the full sense , and not as a " quasi-arbitrator " , considered in 14.6 . |
| 21 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 22 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |
| 23 | The Nestle chief milk buyer , John Ross , said : ‘ Our proposal is that we do business together , as working partners with a common interest — a long and profitable joint future within a thriving UK dairy industry . ’ |
| 24 | The second major defect in the relative clause proposal is that it does not actually explain anything unless it is supplemented by some account of what a relative clause is . |
| 25 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 26 | One of the unwritten rules of non-Muslims who work or travel in Muslim countries is that you do n't eat or drink in front of your fasting friends . |
| 27 | Neville Baggaley 's only regret is that he did not make the change sooner . |
| 28 | My only regret is that he did n't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory . |
| 29 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 30 | And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak . |