Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this , though , for Ifor or for Cis or , I presume , for the rest of the family , was to be compared with the fact that Richard Walter Jenkins Junior , aged eleven , passed a scholarship to the Secondary School and went there : the first Jenkins of that line ever to do so . |
| 2 | A weaker man might have become debauched ( as many kings of that time certainly did ) yet Charles clearly never allowed his vital energies to weaken his will . |
| 3 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 4 | One thing about it is you get plenty of fresh air here do n't you ? |
| 5 | Thank you for your co-operation and if I can be of further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me . |
| 6 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 7 | The squads from the Department of Public Security always did their work at night , taking into custody those they claimed were a threat to the regime . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 9 | A technical explanation of this kind however does not account for the continuing one-man-band nature of many such businesses , which prevents growth for organizational as well as market reasons . |
| 10 | Co-ventures of this kind certainly do little to change the stereotyped European image of Latin America . |
| 11 | Lists are not meant as explanations , although there is sometimes an implicit taxonomy and even theory in a list , and the theoretical starting point of this book emphatically does not lie in this list . |
| 12 | Projects of this sort certainly do not call for an elaborate cost-benefit analysis ; resources should be assigned to them on the basis of a simple ‘ back-of-an-envelope ’ analysis or an informed subjective decision . |
| 13 | The colour photos I have seen of this fish just do not do him justice . |
| 14 | However , the adoption of this policy alone does not solve the problem of making optimal use of the volume , because filling up the highest part of the nave with habitable accommodation arranged on one or several storeys deprives the lower-level spinal space of the church of natural light . |
| 15 | If you have any questions or require clarification of any aspect of this letter please do not hesitate to contact me . |
| 16 | But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation . |
| 17 | Erm the inertial measurement unit which is er a rather critical piece of equipment er in er a system of this nature initially did not perform to the the full level of requirement that that we we desire so you know , some further development had to be done on that before it would match the system . |
| 18 | Of course , the recognition of cognitive dissonance still does not solve the problem . |
| 19 | Off to one side of the house stood a low whitewashed building originally used as stables and later as a garage , but which , after much industrious clearing , cleaning and the application of repeated coats of apricot-white emulsion now did duty as studio-cum-shop . |
| 20 | The qualities of individual kings really did shape events , and accidents of birth and death in a royal family could determine not only short-term alliances and conflicts , but the long-term destinies of peoples and regions . |
| 21 | Convents of mere women probably did not have much access to precious books in those days before printing . |
| 22 | Most of such talk just does not pass the " so what test " . |
| 23 | Erm , our belief is that we can manage erm , in line with our , our practice , and give up that forty thousand pounds , but it is , it 's reducing your flexibility as , as a number of these changes effectively do . |
| 24 | The revelation of these connections clearly did not help Emerson greatly in the ever more sophisticated world of FI and the truth of the connection , plus Emerson 's failure to succeed with a Brazilian team , affected his popularity back home to a substantial extent . |
| 25 | The relevance of these organizations certainly did not lie in the number of their supporters and activists . |
| 26 | So we 're not saying that every time somebody dreams about an umbrella it means erm that , wh what he was saying is er that kind of visual symbolism often does stand for in this case erm the male genital , but it need not . |
| 27 | The course of unlawful love never does run smooth ; or with dignity ; or with romance . ’ |
| 28 | A small number of empirical studies actually done in Northern Ireland have been invoked in the course of the debate . |
| 29 | In Scotland and Northern Ireland , for instance , the shortage of qualified staff simply does not exist on the same grand scale as in some parts of England , and central London particularly . |
| 30 | Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening . |