Example sentences of "of [det] [noun] do " in BNC.

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1 The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence .
2 ‘ I think if you asked most players in England if they 'd like to swap places with me they 'd be jumping over the top of each other to do it .
3 If they remain within 3° to 4° of each other do n't alter heading .
4 For another , although finer distinctions are made among both Shetlanders and incomers , the stereotypes which are said to characterise the sub-divisions of each group do not differ so much in kind as in degree .
5 Shouting of that kind does not help .
6 Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond .
7 He stated at p494 : If A has the legal capacity to transfer an opportunity to make a gain and in the exercise of that capacity does transfer that opportunity to B by his own act he does so directly .
8 The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions .
9 The volcanic history of that event does not need restatement here , but the complexity of the stratal history makes this part of the column both the most confusing and the most controversial of all .
10 But being aware of that guilt does not answer the question of what to do next .
11 The death of the admiral on his flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in October of that year did nothing to stem her spending — of money that was no longer there .
12 If the deep anaphor can be assigned a suitable interpretation from a content-based representation it does not matter , at least as far as a considered judgement of acceptability is concerned , if the previous expression of that content does not parallel the one that would have to be substituted for the anaphor to make a full second clause .
13 He was running , just as children of that age do , almost as if he was chasing the shadows across the moor .
14 He 's at us all the time , but boys of that age do so like to be morally superior , do n't they ? ’
15 Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know .
16 well you 're better again Jim , you 've got the fire er so you put the fire , you put the fire off , well this central heating comes from the back of that fire does n't it , so if you 've got the central heating on and you 've got it on full
17 The fact that the employer ‘ only sells a patented product to one customer and therefore [ the employer 's ] existence depends on sales of that product does not mean that the patent is of any benefit . ’
18 1967 No. 1462 ) , which governed the work of that body , imposed no obligation to give such reasons ; that in reaching their decision on whether to recommend release , the Parole Board and the local review committee were under a duty to act fairly ; but that the scope of that duty did not include a requirement to give reasons for their recommendation .
19 Still ai n't got rid of that cockerel do n't know where to , to get rid of it to .
20 It is clear that the writer of that letter did not consider that the conference had changed the situation or that any legitimate or other recognisable government had come into existence as a result .
21 Reprints of that edition do not extend this period .
22 Even where the state 's activities were productive , in the sense of producing a surplus , the capitalist logic of accumulation was undermined by the fact that the production of that surplus did not respond to the signals of profitability characterizing private capitalist activity ( Frankel 1979 ; Offe 1975a ) .
23 ‘ I ca n't think of another thing to do down there . ’
24 This was how the visual comedy of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was conceived , although this was not to be the opening episode of the series ; Michael Mills felt the couple needed to be introduced in another story , which saw Frank go for a job as a door-to-door salesman — one of many jobs — and bungle the practice session in his own inimitable way .
25 Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em .
26 Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 .
27 As the second series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was about to begin , he drove to Birmingham to appear as a guest celebrity in the TV show What 's My Line .
28 After a year 's break , Crawford was back at the BBC , making a final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and a play that would show his more serious side to a large audience in the way that only television could do .
29 Before making another series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , he starred in a BBC Play for Today double-bill , Private View and Audience , under the umbrella title Sorry …
30 Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown .
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