Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] do " in BNC.

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1 As individuals do we accept our responsibility to be peacemakers or do we passively allow aggression to be part of our lives ?
2 And is it quite regular hours or do you work all over the time ?
3 But the drudgery of standing in queues for hours or doing housework is awful .
4 How do you work , do you buy in the uppers or do you do the entire job yourself ? ’
5 ‘ It is easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes if you do n't know the ropes or do n't have someone reliable to operate for you , ’ a contented owner of property in Portugal told me .
6 The imminent publication of guidelines on employing counsellors in primary care prepared by a working party of the British Association for Counselling will greatly help those family health services authorities and general practitioners who have yet to develop such guidelines or do not understand how to assess the qualifications and competence of counsellors they wish to employ and work with .
7 Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences .
8 Are you a jack of all trades or do you prefer to specialize ?
9 Many of his fellow British actors — throughout the years — only affected to despise the movies : they themselves were not asked to do them or , if asked , played minor roles or did not get the hang of it at all .
10 I wish he 'd get his teeth seen to ; do they have special police dentists or do they have to go to the ones everybody else goes to and hope the dentist does n't have some … have some grudge … some grudge against … ?
11 Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique .
12 Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just .
13 Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ?
14 So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ?
15 " Do I get a word of thanks or do I not ? "
16 Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ?
17 Many firms take risks that do not come off .
18 In fact , there are relatively few morphological , physiological or behavioural characteristics that do not differ to some extent between males and females ( see Glucksman , 1974 ) and the extent of these differences varies widely between species .
19 Janet Russell ( March 25 ) performs traditional and contemporary songs that do n't duck today 's issues — especially women 's — with wit and humour .
20 They do n't do anything : it 's their currencies that do things .
21 I should add that some of the most interesting echinoderms are also some of the rarest — peculiar , plated animals that do not fit comfortably into the array of living forms .
22 Many animals that do not inhabit the especially favoured areas all the time , none the less make use of them in the course of their lives .
23 Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place .
24 Marwell Zoological Park are hosting the Pet Corner where you can meet face to face those animals that do NOT make the perfect pets .
25 Invertebrates are generally defined as animals that do not have a backbone or internal skeleton and that simple definition takes in around 97% of the whole of the living species of animals in the world .
26 To the animals that do it , there is nothing particularly special about using tools : it is a piece of behaviour much like any other that the animal performs .
27 Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters .
28 It features main bearing caps that do n't have to be individually matched to the block — something that could make the production process of any engine much easier .
29 Once the murder is done the hypocrisy must continue : in Marvell 's version of Machiavelli , ‘ The same Arts that did gain/A Pow'r must it maintain ’ .
30 That they 're th No , th I 'm not I 'm discriminating o against them on the grounds that they have legs that do that .
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