Example sentences of "[that] [adj] [noun] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |
| 2 | This was particularly appropriate because the ‘ Flickers ’ did just that ; they moved , ran , fell off bridges , drove trains through parlours , rode wild horses , attacked poor wee Indians , flew aeroplanes , and rammed just about every aspect of everything that normal people never did , on to a square screen in the local box of delights known as ‘ The Picters ’ , ‘ The Flicks ’ , or if you came from Clarkston , High Burnside , Shawlands or Jordanhill , ‘ The Cineemaaa ’ … |
| 3 | It 's probably true to say that some actors just do n't mix well with other actors or directors . |
| 4 | We think you 'll agree that this cake really does look most authentic ! |
| 5 | She recalled asking her mother — in the way that youngest children often do — whether they could ‘ buy ’ another baby for her to play with . |
| 6 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 7 | Winter injection used to be popular , until experts found that wet soil often did n't absorb the slurry properly and increased the danger of run-off . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , this latter conclusion tends to be at odds with more conventional data which suggests that real markets often do not converge to what appear to be their equilibrium values ; an obvious example is the labour market . |
| 9 | But now we understand that these things really did n't amount to much . |
| 10 | The trouble here is that these kids just do n't understand it . ’ |
| 11 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 12 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 13 | Research is showing that many animals actually do possess a sixth sense but this is a natural " supersense " , rather than anything supernatural . |
| 14 | Before I start it is worth pointing out that this problem is largely restricted to the users of the Apple Macintosh — PC-based software running under either Windows or GEM seems to be rather better behaved although , in the case of the former , installing downloadable fonts is so much of a pain that many people simply do n't bother anyway ! |
| 15 | One major problem is that many people simply do not recognise that they are carers , and do not apply for help . |
| 16 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 17 | He knew merely from her appearance , in a way that Italian men always do , that she was a virgin . |
| 18 | Renault 's new front-drive , 1.2-litre , one-box baby looks confident in a way that small cars seldom do ; it 's cute without being jokey , radical without being controversial . |
| 19 | However , there is no data to show that first babies really do cry more — it is just a subjective impression . |
| 20 | Marryat — as a writer read by boys , men being already too dulled in the sense at twenty to appreciate him — has probably , through the boys , exercised the greatest influence on the English character that any writer ever did exercise . |
| 21 | Or ( as cited above ) , one might hold a particular performance as a ‘ reference ’ , which gradually exerts such an influence that any newcomer simply does n't stand a chance . |
| 22 | Most people who are used to working with cameras will know that certain colours just do n't work , but a few like to be reminded . |
| 23 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 24 | For centuries , as we have just seen , commentators argued that grammatical gender really did relate to the immutable realities of sex difference . |
| 25 | Adults forget that most children really do want to grow up , if only to exact their own small revenges . |
| 26 | In general , though , the best reason for avoiding serious abusive stuff is that most people just do n't like seeing it . |
| 27 | It might be a good guess today if I could say that most people either done as much as they could with their model and had this |