Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing about it is you get plenty of fresh air here do n't you ? |
| 2 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course , the recognition of cognitive dissonance still does not solve the problem . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Convents of mere women probably did not have much access to precious books in those days before printing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The course of unlawful love never does run smooth ; or with dignity ; or with romance . ’ |
| 11 | A small number of empirical studies actually done in Northern Ireland have been invoked in the course of the debate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Certain parts of southern England also do not slot neatly into any regular classification . |
| 14 | Ironically , a formal process of strategic planning often does more to inhibit than to enhance innovative conceptual thinking … . |
| 15 | Official nature conservation policies in France are only very recent in origin so the framework of protected sites simply does not exist on the scale and extent it does in the UK . |
| 16 | Even more provocative is a poll that found that the vast majority of American women today do n't even identify themselves as feminists . |
| 17 | Call me old-fashioned , but I think a lot of American actors just do a sort of swagger and leave it at that . |
| 18 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the vast majority of Indian children either do not go to school or do not reach the end of primary school . |
| 20 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |
| 21 | While the availability of suitable terms presumably does reflect prevailing myths about sexuality and rape , there is nothing abstract about it : the language itself constitutes an act of violence and actively recreates the same cultural beliefs . |
| 22 | I was thinking for instance when you have generation of young men how do you , what 's the time left to something extreme can be done culturally and people can be sort of you know convinced that they 're right and that they go out there and get machine guns can be done culturally , whereas |
| 23 | But where the research and claims go further , as the proponents of smart drugs increasingly do , and assert that there is a widespread disability , ‘ age-associated memory deficit ’ , and that the drugs will be able to alleviate the symptoms of this memory loss , then I become a great deal more sceptical . |
| 24 | ‘ The course of true love never did run smooth . |
| 25 | But the path of true love never did run smooth and who could blame Orsino for overlooking this waif-life creature with the short , dark , cropped hair for the Countess Olivia , she of the long flowing hair and dresses . |