Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 2 | If we must be so very careful , then , in using what people write about themselves , would we do any better to turn to what other people have to write ? |
| 3 | You see you do n't just , you do n't just go like this |
| 4 | So we ca n't we do n't usually talk about ligand gated channels being sodium channels , they 'll normally pass more than one type of cation fairly non-selectively , they do n't really mind . |
| 5 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 6 | With justice the treaty of Brétigny is often regarded as the moment at which , for the first time , both sides decided to call a halt and have their willingness to do so formally recognised in a treaty , one of the most important of the whole war . |
| 7 | In addition , the police are requiring promoters to observe the appropriate minimum age and failure to do so often results in permission being refused . |
| 8 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 9 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 10 | Whilst it might cause some obvious short-term distress to tell the older people that they have unrealistic expectations of their children , to fail to do so inevitably leads to more unhappiness in the longer term . |
| 11 | whether we succeed or fail in what we try to do nearly always depends to some extent on factors beyond our control . |
| 12 | As one of the last prime ministers of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev , Mr Ryzhkov went on to do even worse damage to the Russian economy . |
| 13 | According to the legend , the sixties were awash with new social freedoms and sexual liberation ; thus , the mini-skirt inched its way ever further from the Plimsoll line of modern respectability — the knee — and in doing so subliminally exposed with the ostensibly gamine , but essentially coy , knock-kneed fashion poses , the easy availability of the female genitalia |
| 14 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 15 | As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock . |
| 16 | As late as 1658 Edward Topsel , in his serious work on natural history , followed detailed descriptions of the cat 's anatomy and behaviour with the solemn comment that ‘ the familiars of Witches do most ordinarily appear in the shape of Cats , which is an argument that this beast is dangerous to soul and body . ’ |
| 17 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 18 | Both the American and British missile programmes owed much to German wartime work on their V-1s and V-2s , which did so much damage to London , Antwerp and Paris during the closing stages of the Second World War . |
| 19 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 20 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 21 | The proportion of retired skilled workers who did so prematurely fell between these two at 79 per cent . |
| 22 | I never did much fucking look at that |
| 23 | The second major effect of the introduction of private property occurred , according to Engels , as an indirect result of the change to patriliny , a state which he did not clearly distinguish from patriarchy . |
| 24 | Of these , three did not clearly differentiate between the two systems . |
| 25 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 26 | It was rarely possible to unambiguously identify incorrect memories , where descriptions were produced which did not clearly correspond to any junction on the video there was usually no way to decide what event the description represented an incorrect memory for . |
| 27 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 28 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 29 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 30 | It is clear that a reduction or increase in funding did not automatically lead to similar changes in each of the schools . |