Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [conj] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 2 | My neighbours are friendly but I do n't really know anybody intimately . |
| 3 | If the Conservative party wins a general election , I am upset and I do n't like it , but I am willing to accept the result because I accept the verdict of the people . |
| 4 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ I never meant to frighten you and I am sorry that I did , truly sorry . |
| 6 | ‘ I am sorry if I do not make sense . ’ |
| 7 | I am sorry if I did not reply . |
| 8 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 9 | They are damp but they do n't feel too bad |
| 10 | I am afraid that we do not have later figures , figures for registered disabled people or figures comparable with the monthly claimant count . |
| 11 | I am afraid that we do not discuss in the Chamber applications for private notice questions . |
| 12 | ‘ I am afraid that I do not understand ! ’ he exclaimed . |
| 13 | There is no virtue in producing socially well-adjusted members of society who are unemployed because they do not have the skills . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister and all the other Ministers are wrong because they do not live in the real world . |
| 15 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 16 | People are different and they do n't want to be treated the same . |
| 17 | This would mean that all of the degrees in theology , faithful church attendance and good works are worthless if we do not have it together in this one area . |
| 18 | Some agencies are explicit that they do not deal with properties below a certain rent level , while others discriminate against students or other groups . |
| 19 | Some historians remain sceptical about this , while others are convinced that it does , and that an early form of military organisation was based upon the herred system ; that it appears in southern Norway and Västergötland in Sweden too has led to the contention that it was introduced there in Viking times , perhaps by Swegen or Cnut . |
| 20 | Condition : ‘ Wastes shall be initially blended before incineration and the plant operated in such a manner as to ensure that the flue gases discharged to the atmosphere are such that they do not give rise to an environmental hazard or danger to public health ’ . |
| 21 | In Compact the future entails a fundamental undermining of the reader 's need to believe in fictional events … . the detail and intensity are such that we do believe that what is predicted not only will occur but is occurring/has occurred , while at the same time not occurring , abolished , a mere fiction of words . |
| 22 | Frankfurt Dear Professor , I am sad that you do not believe me . |
| 23 | Cos you 're right cos we do n't want to get people trampling on each other . |
| 24 | and because they wo n't break so easily and erm , they 're light because you do n't want to drag down to the floor do you ? basically |
| 25 | The arousal I 've always thought that er that you should n't be nervous but you always are but obviously as you 're nervous when you do a whole host of things and nerves as you become more skilled at it go away er and I 'd assume that like most things that the nerves will totally disappear and was somewhat surprised to find out that you 're always aroused |
| 26 | You 're lucky that they did n't take the Turtles apart , they did n't open them . |
| 27 | We 're lucky that I do n't have a plastic bubble encasing me , the weather was tested all night , I think . |
| 28 | ‘ But , in the circumstances , I feel I must wait until we 're married before I do that . ’ |
| 29 | That 's like Sarah at work , I mean she leaves at twenty past five , if she thinks that , she 'll leave at ten past five I mean she thinks you 're stupid because she do n't always go but even when she 's not going she |
| 30 | ‘ You 're stupid if you do n't know that ! ’ laughed Basil . |