Example sentences of "do [vb infin] [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One thing we do need to stop is all this Doctor , Sister business . |
| 2 | What we do wish to note is that other things being equal , the demand for bank lending will vary inversely with interest rates and that banks can not lend unless people wish to borrow . |
| 3 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 4 | One of the things they do tend to do is upset cells , upset the way cells replicate , which is why they start doing weird things and go off and get cancerous . |
| 5 | However unsatisfactory the ancient idea of belligerent reprisals may be , the threat of reprisals does appear to have been effective in this matter ( Kalshoven , 1971 , p. 348 ) . |
| 6 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 7 | erm What does tend to happen is that in very dry weather , such as we 've had this summer , the chalk dries out and cracks open up . |
| 8 | The girl does seem to have been closer to her aunt than to her grandmother who died relatively soon , in her sixties . |
| 9 | The gap does seem to have been wider in the past ( 26 hours per week in 1961 , for example ) but these time budgets confirm common sense and findings from the Women and Employment Survey that women do more unpaid work than men . |