Example sentences of "[noun] do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the layman is supposed to do the authors do not wish to contemplate . ’ |
| 2 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 3 | His attempt to do so fostered a current of resentment that came to the surface in 1968 . |
| 4 | At least no trace of an attempt to do so has survived among the voluminous Cossack and British sources . |
| 5 | Official figures indicated that more than half the 2,900,000 electorate did not vote . |
| 6 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 7 | In 1973 the government ran a considerable campaign to instruct electors how to record their votes under the system of proportional representation , but it was thought that after the experience of two proportional representation elections in 1973 the electorate did not need to be more than reminded of what was required . |
| 8 | However , the electorate did not trust the Conservatives on full employment policy , and this feeling was confirmed by the aggressive anti-socialist tenor of the election campaign , when the rallying cry was for decontrol as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | So Veronica did n't support herself , Loretta noted . |
| 10 | The secret news from Dunegal of Nithsdale , using a name that only Thorfinn would recognise , that Thorfinn did not talk of at all , at least before Groa . |
| 11 | Such words do not exist in Russian . |
| 12 | However words do not combine arbitrarily to form phrases and sentences , so higher level constraints can be applied to reduce the remaining ambiguity . |
| 13 | Good words do not last long until they amount to something … |
| 14 | The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence . |
| 15 | He emphasizes that words do not depend on reality for their meaning . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft . |
| 17 | Sometimes , with the best of intentions , the words do not come out quite right . |
| 18 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 19 | Which of these words do not describe the character of the music ? |
| 20 | Which of these words do not describe the character of the music . |
| 21 | The first and perhaps most important point is that these words do not attribute property directly either to the trustee ( B ) or to the beneficiary ( C ) . |
| 22 | There are countless books and pamphlets on chairmanship but the words do not amount to much until you actually take charge . |
| 23 | The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him , but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person . |
| 24 | These words do not have an absolute meaning , since it varies according to context . |
| 25 | There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated . |
| 26 | Bible words do not have magical powers in themselves , but because all words express ideas , and ideas lie behind action , the word of God is a mighty weapon to influence men 's convictions and conduct . |
| 27 | The grapheme is the dominant unit ( since , although most — ead words do not have ‘ ee ’ pronunciation , a large majority of the subjects gave this pronunciation ) but not the only one . |
| 28 | A well-designed communication structure can do much to minimize this by recognizing the fact that words do not have specific meanings until they are defined for a particular purpose . |
| 29 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
| 30 | When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’ |