Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [conj] [pers pn] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones finished off by saying : ‘ The good thing about English football is that they do n't roll about the pitch if they are not hurt . |
| 2 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 3 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 4 | Another plus-point of Ark is that you do n't have to duplicate formulae on each row of data . |
| 5 | I mean that that 's another alternative is that we do n't bother with pictures . |
| 6 | The advantage of Wysiwyg is that you do not have to keep switching from one to the other . |
| 7 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 8 | The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations . |
| 9 | The main outstanding issue is that we do n't know how colour-coding receptive fields are constructed out of wavelength-coding receptive fields at other stages in the system . |
| 10 | Of course , in such cases , rulers tend to have different life-styles from their subjects , but what is at issue is that they do not have a privileged access to property , especially to the means of production , an essential element of Marx 's and Engels 's definition of a class . |
| 11 | The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work . |
| 12 | ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know . |
| 13 | The good thing about a spreadsheet is that you do not need to worry about the order in which you list items — you can sort on any field later . |
| 14 | ‘ The trouble with the test is that you do n't have to be competent to drive . |
| 15 | ‘ But all I 'm concerned about at the moment is that we do enough against City to make sure we can go to Wembley at the weekend knowing we ca n't be overtaken again by Leeds on Saturday . ’ |
| 16 | But as the London Food Commission points out : ‘ The problem for consumers at the moment is that they do not know which are the PVC clingfilms . |
| 17 | The difference is that we do n't recognize and celebrate this story — and the Japanese do . |
| 18 | One of the clever and pleasing touches about this process is that you do n't have to tell the program which lead you 're using . |
| 19 | Our main concern as a group is that we do not waste the money . |
| 20 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |
| 21 | The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like . |
| 22 | For some people , the joy of being a tourist is that they do n't have to think , everything is done for them . |
| 23 | ‘ The point is that we do not need any further research to resolve the policy issues . |
| 24 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 25 | The point is that you do not in this ‘ original position ’ know how to be biased and hence have to be fair : justice in this context would have to be ‘ blind ’ . |
| 26 | And the whole point of credit cards and other forms of revolving credit is that they do n't come to an end . |
| 27 | The common factor is that we do so perceive them ! |
| 28 | Its main criticism is that they do not take into account the effects of the war on the region 's ecosystem . |
| 29 | In short , the criticism is that we do not really know the redistributive impact of government . |
| 30 | The thing about Back is that you do n't refer to his stature when within ear-shot . |