Example sentences of "this does [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a fairly consistent finding in such studies that this does tend to be the case . |
| 2 | This does tend to be rather an out-of-the-way place , I 'm afraid . |
| 3 | However , this does appear to be the case . |
| 4 | This does appear to be what happens . |
| 5 | If this does appear to be happening there is a need either to warn the teachers in the unit documentation or maybe even to indicate possible dangers within the program . |
| 6 | Upon reflection this does appear to be the likely cause of LLD . |
| 7 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 8 | Erm the views of the er of the subcommittee are that that this does appear to be er perhaps a practical solution er and at the moment , er we are looking to erm make some of the spaces , certainly in the Church Street car park erm short term , I E two hours , certainly so the people who are who are making shopping visits , or visits to the banks et cetera would get the lower car park and the the people who are staying for a longer time would be at the top . |
| 9 | What this does point to is the need for community power studies which look at what they describe as real and important issues — those in which the established values are challenged . |
| 10 | If this does prove to be the case , then the Main Wall area will be closed to climbers for an unspecified time . |
| 11 | If this does need to be done then it is recommended that the run be aborted and restarted at Option 6 , but sometimes Option 5 will be necessary . |
| 12 | This does seem to be an area in which television coverage influenced public perceptions ( Table 7.4 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Any further search for a definition would be axiomatic ’ suggests Moncrieff , and this does seem to be true , the Third Karolinska Institute Symposium on Environmental Health , defining an odour as ‘ The product of the activation of the sense of smell , an olfactory experience ’ . |
| 14 | This observation prompts the speculation that chains of right-handed amino acids will form left-handed a-helices and this does seem to be so . |
| 15 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |