Example sentences of "does [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What an impro of this kind does is confront the actors with a situation where they have to be emotionally truthful . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All it does is to raise the price of things we buy from abroad . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ A dress , you ignoramus ’ ) , all he does is look in the mirror and say , ‘ This can not be true ! ’ |
| 7 | The second thing a fire does is to warm the house and make it inviting . |
| 8 | That it does is mainly down to the script . |
| 9 | They do not deny — indeed they insist — that what an animal does is influenced by past experiences as well as present ones . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 12 | But ensuring it does is one of the most important tasks facing Mr Major in the aftermath of his election victory . |
| 13 | What LMS does is radically expand the area of school responsibility . |
| 14 | What Language , Truth and Logic does is to call a particular philosophical position , rather than a particular branch of philosophy , ‘ metaphysics ’ and thereby nonsense . |
| 15 | Raising standards does n't come from giving children harder sums or difficult words for their spelling list , all that does is increase failure and disaffection . |
| 16 | To argue as Bernard Williams does is to suggest that there is no sharp line to be drawn between the arts and the social sciences ; for it is the acknowledged role of the latter to contribute to our understanding of ourselves and our society . |
| 17 | What it does is lie at half cock and suspend a floating bait onto the water 's surface . |
| 18 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |
| 19 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 20 | CHILDREN 'S programmes do n't usually have a strong appeal to adults , but one that does is Wail of the Banshee , running on Mondays on ITV at 4pm . |
| 21 | It certainly helps that Samuel Ramey is the bass of this generation , right up there with Pinza and Siepi , so that almost anything he does is thoroughly enjoyable . |
| 22 | What the model does is to suggest at least two things that need to be examined critically . |
| 23 | Everything the young baby does is designed to interest and attract the attention of others , especially those who are in closest proximity . |
| 24 | A marvellous book that does is called The Traveller 's Handbook edited by Melissa Shales and published by Heinemann . |
| 25 | The Third Annual Punch Egothon ( Spring Edition ) : while it presumes to expose the year 's most overbearing , vain , egocentric celebrities , all it actually does is to unwittingly credit these attributes to your own good selves . |
| 26 | What he does is to disbelieve in his previous world view because of needs which his previous world view can no longer answer . |
| 27 | What tolerance does is to impart spiritual insight to a man and it breaks down barriers that might exist between one faith and another . |
| 28 | One thing direct recording in mono does is it keeps everything very contained . |
| 29 | What it does is combine both pickups through a capacitor and a resistor with a certain amount of reverse phase , to echo the sound a Strat makes when you jam the switch between the middle and neck pickups . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know why we keep coming here , ’ says an older clown on the bus shuttling us to the big top , ‘ all it does is rain on us and blow us about . ’ |