Example sentences of "does [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the good things he does are not always appreciated by outsiders and he 'll captain the team at Leeds . |
| 2 | The ellipted items in Yes , she does are sing in the bath . |
| 3 | Because the people who think as he does are no longer a beleaguered minority . |
| 4 | Every X , X doe X saw herself cos all the does are standing around looking at the lake , seeing their reflections so there is just a quantifier . |
| 5 | What she says and what she does are two different things as far as children go . |
| 6 | Big fancy does are you ? |
| 7 | What does being naughty mean ? |
| 8 | Does being true to oneself , and not selling out to Hollywood , really mean abandoning melodrama for realism , showmanship for seriousness , spectacle for solemn emotion , tight scripts for improvised styles ? |
| 9 | How does being neutered affect a cat 's behaviour ? |
| 10 | Does being interested in sport secure politicians votes ? |
| 11 | So does being a salmon . |
| 12 | So does being patronised . |
| 13 | Does being brave mean being strong or overcoming our fears ? |
| 14 | Again Inspector , just to help the jury and myself indeed , what does being a control inspector mean ? |
| 15 | Does being assertive mean getting your own way ? |
| 16 | How does being in a mixed ability class affect the social development of children ? |
| 17 | How does being in a mixed ability class affect the social development of children ? |
| 18 | Suggestions that the Kuwaitis know something no-one else does were played down by analysts , still desperately clinging to fading hopes of Lloyds Bank emerging with a rival offer next week . |
| 19 | The does were retained in hessian sacks and I have known some to bite a hole in the sack and escape . |
| 20 | However , if all the jobs a housewife does were put down in a job description people might think twice before saying this . |
| 21 | What an impro of this kind does is confront the actors with a situation where they have to be emotionally truthful . |
| 22 | I would not advise any female competitor to rely upon a firm bra as a means of protection , because all that does is hold the breasts so that they ca n't move freely under impact . |
| 23 | What it does is to turn the light it controls ( typically a hall light or an outside light ) on and off , according to how you set the timer , to give the impression ( to a potential burglar ) that the house is occupied . |
| 24 | All it does is to raise the price of things we buy from abroad . |
| 25 | But it is also about the unstable evolution both of homo erectus and his culture , all of which may be a vast illusion if what man does is simply continue his savagery while trying to repeat faint echoes of some suspect original grandeur . |
| 26 | ‘ A dress , you ignoramus ’ ) , all he does is look in the mirror and say , ‘ This can not be true ! ’ |
| 27 | The second thing a fire does is to warm the house and make it inviting . |
| 28 | That it does is mainly down to the script . |
| 29 | They do not deny — indeed they insist — that what an animal does is influenced by past experiences as well as present ones . |
| 30 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |