Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
| 2 | In the crudest sense , there are indeed ‘ young old ’ and ‘ old old ’ ; and although you can be either younger or older at any age , physical and mental disabilities do slowly cumulate on average with increasing years . |
| 3 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 4 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 5 | RISING star Sonia has blasted The Eurovision Song contest because entrants do NOT sing in English . |
| 6 | The ability to seek out travel services for the customer even when they do not appear on brochure racks has brought the company a strong following in the town but also , according to manager Sandra Chisholm , from as far as Glasgow . |
| 7 | Children do not appear on memorial brasses until the 1420s , though by the 1450s they were a regular occurrence . |
| 8 | It is a rule that they do not appear on TV or talk to the Press . |
| 9 | Avoid large numbers of programs in any one group as you will have to scroll the Program List to locate programs which do not appear on screen . |
| 10 | However , the old deeds and documents of title may be helpful in resolving any detailed matters that do not appear as part of the land registration process . |
| 11 | Some of these differences occur early while others do not appear until adolescence and adulthood . |
| 12 | In the use of n-grams or a dictionary check to rule out letter sequences that do not appear in English , the information needed is a list of English words , or perhaps a large corpus of text from which to extract such a list and/or the list of n-grams for whichever values of n are necessary . |
| 13 | Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) . |
| 14 | Barristers do not appear in court alone ; the solicitor , or a representative of the practice , must also be present . |
| 15 | Do not start until quarter past |
| 16 | At least this time they do not threaten to stone Moses as they did in Exodus 17 . |
| 17 | In fact , these are the only points that do not move with inversion ; they are said to be ‘ invariant under inversion ’ . |
| 18 | A palace spokesman said : ‘ We do not comment on speculation in newspapers . |
| 19 | Apart from the small elastic strains which recover when the load is taken off brittle solids do not distort before failure and fracture is usually by a crack or cracks which run cleanly through the material . |
| 20 | Non-ionic detergents : do not ionise in solution . |
| 21 | Moderate drinkers do not benefit from warning labels and it appears that alcohol abusers pay no attention to them . |
| 22 | This is particularly so when the nationals and corporate bodies of the member states do not benefit from reciprocity in relation to a takeover of a body corporate situated in these third countries . |
| 23 | ‘ UDCs can not be regarded as a success if buildings and land are regenerated but the local community are by-passed and do not benefit from regeneration ’ . |
| 24 | Edward I told Gaston VII of Béarn in December 1282 that ‘ we believe that you do not abound in money ’ , and the depredations and seizures of other people 's property carried out by the impecunious Gaston and his allies between 1270 and his death in 1290 tried Edward 's patience sorely . |
| 25 | Some things do not change despite time . |
| 26 | They do not change as society changes and this may be an embarrassment to the organisation or trust that administers such income . |
| 27 | However , Rosenberg ( 1982 ) has questioned the validity of estimates of the impact of climatic change on crop yields which assume that crop varieties and production technologies do not change over time . |
| 28 | The enchaînements she dances thoughout the three scenes do not change in style or content . |
| 29 | Banks do not invest in company shares ( equities ) or company bonds ( debentures ) . |
| 30 | The level of unemployment , at least in the short to medium term , is likely to remain high ; therefore , so the argument goes , it is essential that unemployed people , in both their own interests and those of the wider society , do not drift into alienation or even ‘ subversion ’ . |