Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE Soaps just right or do you think we need more fun ? |
| 2 | ‘ The problem exists in the way people used or did not obey the contracts between us , ’ argued Mr Thomson . |
| 3 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 4 | There is also some satisfaction to be gained from being deliberately rebellious or doing something outrageous and saying ‘ F*** you ! ’ to your own conventions for a night . |
| 5 | As Spence ( 1975 ) says , " the firm , in large part , consists of non-market institutions whose function is to deal with resource allocation in the presence of informational constraints that markets handle poorly or do not handle at all " ( p. 164 ) . |
| 6 | In the WFS , however , those women were considered " fecund " who were either pregnant or did not report fecundity impairment . |
| 7 | Do you think that 's , do you think that 's what what you 've experienced there , do you think that 's untypical or do you think that 's a fairly good example of of of life in that part of Westerhailes ? |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want to keep that child alive or do n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | By and large the evidence which Engels and his contemporaries saw as significant of the high status of women in primitive societies is often wrong or does not signify what it was believed to mean . |
| 10 | They were too embarrassed or did n't want to make a mountain out of a molehill . |
| 11 | Would my honourable friend be able to explain why it was that in the run up to negotiations with respect to the question of increase in the number of seats er , the German government made it quite clear that they were not interested or did n't want to have the additional number of seats and then subsequently , for reasons that have never been fully explained , we then found that er they had an additional eighteen . |
| 12 | Many people are illiterate or do not understand the technical language , so people learn by word of mouth or various other processes that money is available . |
| 13 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |
| 14 | It 's bein' poor and 'omeless that does it . |
| 15 | Careful that does n't fall on you Charlotte . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid that does n't mean anything to me . ’ |
| 17 | So I 'm afraid that did put me off . |
| 18 | Take your mind off negative things by dwelling on something positive and interesting that does not involve eating . |
| 19 | Just because you 're assertive that does n't mean you 're gon na get everything that you want because you 're not being assertive just means that other people are aware of what you want . |
| 20 | Quite obviously the passivity of , say , looking at someone else 's drawing is considerably less demanding than doing one 's own . |
| 21 | My Lord Mayor , at the Economic Strategy Sub-committee meeting recently , we were asked to adopt from Florence , an objective two statement which was not clear and did not translate precisely . |
| 22 | All members of the ‘ dependent population ’ are equally dependent and do not present varying social costs of support . |
| 23 | At Prudential Assurance , the following terms apply to members of staff who travel daily and do not move home : |
| 24 | Basalts can also form large volume flows , in some cases exceeding twenty-four cubic kilometres , but because they are so much thinner , they are not so conspicuous and do n't attract attention . |
| 25 | If the horse is not provoked into bucking or rearing , it is likely to give up such a habit if the rider remains calm and does n't fall off . |
| 26 | Make sure that the horse stays calm and does not work himself into a frenzy . |
| 27 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 28 | Keep calm and do n't be offended . |
| 29 | Always stay calm and do not allow others to drag you in to a conflict of personalities . |
| 30 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |