Example sentences of "[conj] do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing that we can say or do here to add the distinction , to add distinction er to what was done here forty years ago . |
| 2 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |
| 3 | Even if the majority of exercises employed are basically the same , the results will vary according to whether you work hard for short periods or do easier work for a longer stretch . |
| 4 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 5 | Most were either destroyed by Patriot missiles or did little damage . |
| 6 | These constructs constrain the individual 's view of the world , and whereas everyone is potentially able to make their own choices and decisions , they are restricted by the knowledge that to do so has an impact on other members of their family . |
| 7 | She arched her back , and realised that doing so made her butt stuck out even further . |
| 8 | Where a choice is limited to a few you choose the best of the bunch ( as with the secretaries ) but ensure that doing so does not ignore other priorities . |
| 9 | But even those with mild and moderate disease were more likely to be employed if they did not reveal their cystic fibrosis , suggesting that doing so places the job seeker at a disadvantage . |
| 10 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 11 | But not everyone does consent , nor do all have this attitude . |
| 12 | ‘ I go to high street shops that do high fashion looks at low prices , Ms Selfridge in Belfast Oxford Street are good . ’ |
| 13 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 14 | The distal humerus and proximal tibia and femur are preferentially preserved in the predator assemblages where the greatest breakage overall occurs , while the species that do little damage to the bone cluster near the origin . |
| 15 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 16 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 17 | Abuses that do occasionally come to light are wrongly sensationalized as being common place rather than being merely one off incidents . |
| 18 | Those that do so have to set aside less capital to cover property risks and less time for completing detailed regulatory reports and managing a messy portfolio . |
| 19 | Between the double-six dice throw , and the perfect deal at bridge , is a range of more or less improbable events that do sometimes happen , including any one individual 's being struck by lightning , winning a big prize on the football pools , scoring a hole-in-one at golf , and so on . |
| 20 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 21 | The central criticisms levelled against Realism related to its definition of terms , especially the three terms that did most work — power , the balance of power , and the national interest . |
| 22 | Those that did so recovered their costs within six months . |
| 23 | Mrs Izzard 's relentless disapproval consistently underrates her subject as well as missing the richly comic possibilities of a life that did indeed develop knockabout English elements of a boulevard farce . ’ |
| 24 | Neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion , nor does either hold the key to its real nature . |
| 25 | One aspect of this year that does particularly please me , is the continued success of our washroom hygiene service , where sales for contracts and jobs have hardly been affected by the economic climate . |
| 26 | You have joined the RSPB because you want to help protect birds and their habitats — when we talk about " helping the Society " it is always taken to mean " helping the birds " through supporting the organisation that does most to protect them . |
| 27 | " The concept of the Labour aristocracy has had its value in drawing attention to differences within the working class but if it implies the existence … of a labour elite distinctly separated from lower strata and marked by political behaviour of an acquiescent type then it is a concept that does more harm than good to historical truth " . |
| 28 | The spark that does often make people go is when there are changes in the international organisation or indeed a change in the fortunes of the company . |
| 29 | Their claim was based on a privilege that does indeed exist for libel , where the defendant is not required to disclose his sources . |
| 30 | It was under the old law if done in pursuance of the ulterior intent , not if done simply to gain access . |