Example sentences of "do matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | What DID matter was that Kylie , little sweet innocent Charlene was TOPLESS . |
| 2 | It is argued in this study that although the courts did matter , they often failed to operate in the ways intended by British policy-makers . |
| 3 | It did matter . |
| 4 | Yet it did matter ! |
| 5 | Personal involvement was implicit in the tone and the procedures involved : the matters under consideration were treated as if they did matter ; epochs and makers of epochs were sharply characterized and subjected to urgent evaluation . |
| 6 | Were she to believe that it did matter , she would be finished . |
| 7 | But it did matter — or did it ? |
| 8 | Yet she knew it did matter . |
| 9 | Briefly summing up , there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little , he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter . |
| 10 | But it did matter did n't it ? |
| 11 | It did matter but we did n't know that at the time did we ? |
| 12 | They do matter . |
| 13 | ‘ But motives do matter , surely ? |
| 14 | Indeed one of the frustrating phenomena many pressure groups of this kind experience is continuing assertions by politicians that they do matter , which is accompanied by minimal concrete action . |
| 15 | Misleading statements do matter , though . |
| 16 | Sources of income other than unemployment benefits and earnings do matter , but less than benefits and earnings ( similar results appear in Atkinson , et al. |
| 17 | Er yeah thank you yeah the trees really do matter . |
| 18 | It is hoped that this chapter goes some way to redressing the balance : relative prices do matter in the General Theory , though they do not adjust in the manner suggested by the classical writers and by their monetarist/new classical descendants . |
| 19 | On the contrary , it reasserts a central truth about education which ever and again we are tempted to forget or ignore , but a truth which we neglect at peril of our immortal soul : that it does matter infinitely what we teach and learn . |
| 20 | Working under the not unreasonable assumption that since all its saloons are equally good to drive , size does matter , the last thing it wants to do is create a miracle of packaging at the expense of an ostensibly bigger model . |
| 21 | To be fair , Britain 's budget does matter more than most — even though , unlike the others , it is concerned with gathering revenue rather than spraying it around . |
| 22 | It does matter to an industry whose selling point is purity . |
| 23 | What does matter is that this attitude , this adoration , this genuine sense of awe and gentle , honourable respect for womanhood should be placed on record as an accurate indication of my state of mind and pattern of conduct . |
| 24 | But what does matter is that relegation of drama to the same order of non-seriousness as game , revellings and disportings , permitted an ‘ it 's only a game ’ attitude — both dismissive and tolerant — to creep in . |
| 25 | The view that will be taken is that it does matter very much , although not quite in the way in which previous writers about environmental doom have envisaged . |
| 26 | When I think about it I 'm not sure it makes any important difference how you imagine he looks , I mean who am I to say whether this Boy you are seeing has blonde hair or dark ; but I am sure that it does matter what he means to you . |
| 27 | It does not really matter if a ten-inch record turns into a nine-and-a-half inch , but it does matter when the shrinkage is uneven , because the grooves become highly eccentric . |
| 28 | What does matter is that you 're wearing yourself to a shadow to make a bare livelihood — and my hands are tied , ’ he said violently , looking down at them as though he longed to tear off the invisible fetters . |
| 29 | But someone was murdered the same day and that does matter . |
| 30 | What does matter is that the Cabinet has got right not only the level of spending but where the money is to go . |