Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [pron] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , however , de Gaulle was worried that under the terms of the Treaty of Rome , the EEC was supposed , in January 1966 , to take more of its decisions by majority votes , which could force France to accept policies she did not want . |
| 2 | Thus we should guard against any immediate and unreasoned reaction to the idea that they might ultimately be widened to encompass individuals who do not happen to be human . |
| 3 | Some also offer a free bus service , to encourage customers who do not have their own transport . |
| 4 | ‘ But we particularly want to attract players who do n't compete at club level . |
| 5 | For the highest level jobs a whole country or even an international community might be considered , but in European countries most workers attempt to find jobs which do not require either moving house or excessive travelling , and such proximity has corresponding advantages for the potential employers . |
| 6 | Following the enactment of the Finance Act 1993 , it is now more difficult to create debentures which do not constitute qualifying corporate bonds for these purposes . |
| 7 | Look around your shop and try to identify products which do not sell well ( or ask the manager ) . |
| 8 | Environment ministers of the European Community have agreed to introduce an " eco-label " aimed at enabling consumers to identify products which do least damage to the environment . |
| 9 | While people in Scotland are flattered that in Battersea they think of nothing else but the protection of the people of Scotland from excessive expenditure , I fancy that the people of Scotland are mature enough to elect or to refuse to re-elect Governments who do not conduct taxation affairs in the way in which they wish . |
| 10 | The Death Grant had been introduced before the war to help families who did not have enough money to bury their dead . |
| 11 | The students have reported useful insight from their self assessments and have been able to identify things they did well , problems , and how they could improve . |
| 12 | During recession , he went on , people often looked to spend less on gifts , but to select gifts which do not make this apparent . |
| 13 | They want to hear truths which do not make them narrower but broader , which do not obscure but enlighten , which do not run off them like water , but pierce them to the marrow . ’ |
| 14 | It enables us to experience desires we do not ordinarily give ourselves credit for , and to exercise choices society is reluctant to admit . |
| 15 | The journal is a book of prime entry used to record transactions which do not pass through the cash receipts or payments books , or purchases , sales or returns day books , for example , purchases and sales of fixed assets on credit , the correction of errors and other entries of an extraordinary nature . |
| 16 | In practice , then , journalists have the " power " — in the sense that they are unlikely to be stopped — to defame the poor , to publish falsehoods which do not injure reputations , and to invade personal privacy . |
| 17 | ‘ I know the kind of expression you have when you 're getting people to do things they do n't want to do . |
| 18 | I think , well , I think do everything as early as you possibly can , as long as the kid understands what they 're doing , it 's no good getting them to do things they do n't understand , if they understand negative numbers do it |
| 19 | Having to do things one does n't want . ’ |
| 20 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 21 | There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself . |
| 22 | ‘ Wolfson 's policy could be seen as an inducement to people to devise experiments which do not involve the use of animals , and almost everyone would agree that that is a good idea ’ , he says . |
| 23 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 24 | The answer was to build cars which did not need such lubrication and to stop adding lead to petrol . |
| 25 | A playwright once responded to someone who asked him about the message of his play that when he wanted to send messages he did so by telegram . |
| 26 | It can require us to support legislation we believe would be inappropriate in the perfectly just and fair society and to recognize rights we do not believe people would have there . |
| 27 | Efforts were made to contact patients who did not keep appointments . |
| 28 | Buick decided to shed cars which did not fit its image , like the Grand National . |
| 29 | Teachers must rise to the task of making sure that when parents come to judge schools they do so in a way which identifies — and , in so doing , promotes — genuine quality . |
| 30 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |