Example sentences of "do [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm , I 'm just saying that one way we can see things easily and another way we ca n't , and we do want to check it , we do want to be sure that there is continuity . |
| 2 | Radical reform is necessary to enable those who do want to be active in political life to do so . |
| 3 | It perhaps will never be realised as it is questionable as to how many people do want to be active in politics . |
| 4 | Do you believe in discipline , that children do need to be obedient ? |
| 5 | But they do need to be small enough to fit on the cover without taking up much space , and light enough not to tear the paper . |
| 6 | Administrators of services do need to be careful not to isolate recipients too much . |
| 7 | its , it , the other truck drivers and I have to say that erm to a certain extent you do need to be forceful and positive because er they need a lot of space to manoeuvre on the road and a lot of people who drive cars do n't quite realize how much space they need and if they wo n't give you the space you have to take it . |
| 8 | But investors do need to be wary of new-style income shares — such as those issued by Olim Convertible , Kleinwort High Income and Edinburgh Income — which rely more heavily on growth in the underlying assets to prevent substantial capital loss . |
| 9 | But we do need to be wary of inferring too much central direction , partly because this implies that banks or companies were forced into compliance . |
| 10 | Firstly , while it goes to great lengths to be friendly and avoid jargon , because it is an American book , you do need to be happy with US slang speech to enjoy it , and sometimes even to understand it , as in ‘ Obtuse code-word sorters divvy those ’ , ‘ Most DOS programs are text-based critters ’ , or ‘ To counter this bad trip , the Windows programmers created a communal work place where all the programs could groove together peacefully ’ . |
| 11 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 12 | We do need to be able to show forgiveness in all the things that we do but it is n't easy and Jesus devotion to is a great challenge to us as to just how far we can go . |
| 13 | So , sure , we do need rote-learning , we do need to be able to say ‘ Three times four is twelve ’ , we must n't have to work it out on our fingers . |
| 14 | If they do appear to be effective for recognition , this will have consequences for the design of pattern recognisers . |
| 15 | Any discussion of crime must be cognizant of the fact that serious adverse consequences can and often do follow from being indifferent to the outcome of one 's actions ( or inactions ) . |
| 16 | Most religious traditions , however , do claim to be theistic — to believe in a god or gods . |
| 17 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , we 're not yet able to get a large enough supply of completely CFC-free material , but do hope to be able to in the near future . |
| 19 | ‘ You do have to be polite and well-behaved , and loyal to the Royal Family as well , otherwise you could abuse it terribly . ’ |
| 20 | But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation . |
| 21 | P.S. Mind you , you do have to be able to on-sight Indian Face with an anvil strapped to your chest to become chairman ! |
| 22 | You do have to be careful , though , because she has no fear . |
| 23 | what other departments feel to your to your people , because wha , you do have to be careful about the indoctrination , this is what I believe so it 's right , we 've got ta we do have to strike a balance . |
| 24 | I mean , we all know that having to shake tins , the number of people who go past by on the other side , and I think that we do have to be careful with the numbers , and even those people who normally give do get a bit fed up if there are too many . |
| 25 | ‘ We do try to be fair to everybody , ’ said a Milk Marketing Board spokesman . |
| 26 | I do s-seem to be b-bogged down . ’ |
| 27 | Also many LDCs have large state sectors , i.e. government ownership of industrial corporations , which do tend to be wasteful and inefficient , thereby resulting in a mis-use of scarce economic resources . |
| 28 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 29 | The biggest , the Fortune 500 corporations , often take the question of corporate identity very seriously and , although the wages they offer are not necessarily any better than those of other companies , their facilities and non-wage benefits do tend to be superior . |
| 30 | Although the hit rate does not differ significantly between junctions there do seem to be substantial differences between individual films . |