Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [noun] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it hard to see why a 20 per cent rule has much appeal , and a more attractive rule might ensure that the activities of participants do not overlap by more than some specific amount . |
| 2 | ( The fact that the meanings of sentences are more accessible to intuition than the meanings of words does not alter this . ) |
| 3 | Taking a less detailed view , the patterns of discovery do not differ greatly . |
| 4 | But as with the sexist idioms and assumptions we looked at earlier , the patterns of language do not just reflect inequality . |
| 5 | The rules of competition do not allow direct attacks upon the limbs , so use foot sweeps with care . |
| 6 | Now , most of our everyday talk about the objects of perception does not reflect this . |
| 7 | The journalists of Esquire did not specify the names of this country 's worst -dressed men . |
| 8 | As late as 1658 Edward Topsel , in his serious work on natural history , followed detailed descriptions of the cat 's anatomy and behaviour with the solemn comment that ‘ the familiars of Witches do most ordinarily appear in the shape of Cats , which is an argument that this beast is dangerous to soul and body . ’ |
| 9 | It is quite questionable why the heads of JRFU do n't establish ‘ real ’ clubs in Japan based on long-range plans . |
| 10 | All this is a study in decorum , indeed — a decorum only narrowly maintained — but not in submission ; and the demands of gentility do not inhibit the novelist when he writes . |
| 11 | The islanders of course do not share our Western compulsion to distinguish ourselves , the rational " observers " , from the rest of nature . |
| 12 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 13 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 14 | But these lists are not organized in any way other than regionally ; the methods of dialectology do not address themselves to variation within a single region between the sexes , or between status groups or generation cohorts . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the lines of support do not always run in one direction . |
| 16 | But Lloyd George underestimated the soundness of that edifice ; and the fact that the sinews of government did not atrophy after the British departure can largely be ascribed to the tradition of service personified by ‘ Rag ’ Pillai . |
| 17 | What is increasingly clear , however , is that the effects of advertising do not depend only on what the advertiser does . |
| 18 | Tit-for-tat exchanges between the communities of Cairo did not necessarily end just because a man had been killed . |
| 19 | The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately . |
| 20 | In the same way , the collection of information from the classroom from which we hope to draw inferences about teaching material must be such that distorting factors due to the circumstances of collection do not invalidate its use . |
| 21 | ‘ The wrongs of women do not concern you ? ’ |
| 22 | And he added : ‘ For those pressure groups , the tenets of logic do not seem important . ’ |
| 23 | On issue , the court does not fix a return day but serves on the Crown copy of the particulars of claim , and a notice ( N 390 ) of entry of plaint , and of the effect of paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 5 ) of Ord 42 , r 6 , namely the rights of the Crown if it considers that the particulars of claim do not contain sufficient information and the action itself is stayed . |
| 24 | It is a pity the needs of users did not rank too highly before £400m poured down the drain . |
| 25 | A residual judicial commitment to preserving the essentials of democracy does not provide the only constraint on parliamentary supremacy . |
| 26 | It should be noted that breach of the Codes of Practice does not , of itself , render the police officer liable to any criminal or civil proceedings . |
| 27 | That tasted bitter , thought Hotspur , watching Hussey swallow it down perforce , for on the face of it it was reasonable , and minor lordlings from the fringes of Wales do not argue with the prince of Wales . |
| 28 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the sources of information do not all appear at the same time . |
| 30 | All governments , to a lesser or greater extent , will also be anxious that the rates of taxation do not undermine work incentives . |