Example sentences of "that do " in BNC.
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| 31 | I refused to pray , telling myself that doing so would demonstrate a lack of confidence in God . |
| 32 | Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus . |
| 33 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 34 | If the law of life is struggle , the ‘ bottom line ’ in economic activity as with any other , is the contribution it makes to that struggle , and no sector can simply opt out of it , even if it can be shown by some other criteria that doing so would improve matters . |
| 35 | Foreign investors dislike the bribery that doing business in , say , Indonesia , the Philippines and Thailand often involves . |
| 36 | In 1977 , when I joined the organization , it was more than apparent that the other women did not have the remotest idea about women 's liberation , felt that doing the cooking for men was their political contribution , etc . |
| 37 | The court must therefore be satisfied that the order will positively contribute to the child 's welfare and must not make an order unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 38 | By section 1(3) of the Act of 1989 Parliament has required a court exercising this jurisdiction to have regard to a number of considerations and by subsection ( 5 ) has directed the court to make no order , notwithstanding an agreement between the parties , unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 39 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 40 | She arched her back , and realised that doing so made her butt stuck out even further . |
| 41 | But even those with mild and moderate disease were more likely to be employed if they did not reveal their cystic fibrosis , suggesting that doing so places the job seeker at a disadvantage . |
| 42 | Blanche had increasingly come to accept that doing her best was good enough and that she did not need to measure herself against some ideal standard . |
| 43 | Where a choice is limited to a few you choose the best of the bunch ( as with the secretaries ) but ensure that doing so does not ignore other priorities . |
| 44 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 45 | They invent a few rules that do n't mean anything so that you can ruin your health trying to change them . |
| 46 | The industry has marketed Britain energetically as a year-round destination , with many attractions that do not leave the visitor at the mercy of our fickle weather . |
| 47 | The number of hotel-based leisure complexes that do not take into consideration the operation of a facility at the same time as its aesthetics are plain for all to see . |
| 48 | It does not demand such a situation in cultivation but there is no doubt that it thrives best in deep soils that do not dry out in summer . |
| 49 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 50 | Plants that do need sunlight may survive in shade for a while , directing their energies to growing rapidly towards the light essential for their flowering and seed production . |
| 51 | And of those that do , few will try them more than once or twice . |
| 52 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 53 | I would not say that the developmental view is a consequence of the thoughtaction analogy exactly , because there could be constructivist theories that do not mention development . |
| 54 | Further , the need for averaging obviously favours repetitive responses to repetitive stimuli and neural events that do not correlate in a consistent time-locked way with external stimuli will necessarily be overlooked . |
| 55 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 56 | Apart from the lack of suitable housing , there can be problems of access to the alternatives that do exist . |
| 57 | We regret that we are unable to answer multiple queries that do not comply with these instructions . |
| 58 | We have the land and the right planning framework to create new communities that do offer the sorts of housing and living conditions that many people are looking for . |
| 59 | Sir David Alliance , Coats chairman , said the sales were part of Coats ' continuing policy of disposing of peripheral activities that do not fit in the long term strategy of the group . |
| 60 | Chapter One begins with allegations printed in one of the more respectable weekly magazines that do their best to ruin the reputation of everyone in the public eye . |