Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspapers that do not change are likely to be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 2 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 3 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 4 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 5 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 6 | ‘ We are trying to turn around a situation we do not deny is difficult , ’ admits one Ferruzzi executive . |
| 7 | Israelis , used to instant retaliation , do not like being sitting ducks . |
| 8 | Similarly , health and safety legislation can be designed to protect workers from agreeing to work in conditions which they do not realize are unsafe . |
| 9 | I do not recall being frightened , although I should have been . |
| 10 | Artists do just stop being able to do it . |
| 11 | I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in . |
| 12 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 13 | It 's we , we should n't accept anything that you know , we , we do n't think 's correct ! |
| 14 | Which we do n't think 's fair . |
| 15 | Now , what we do n't want are detailed particulars of the shop , the salesperson 's home address and physical attributes . |
| 16 | And one thing we do n't want is extra work . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 19 | , we 'll get some of those , I 'll put them in , in the trolley , come on , now Charlotte please do n't start being naughty , do n't start . |
| 20 | It is worth checking your essay to make sure that you are not presupposing things which you do n't believe are true , and that you are n't hiding anything in a presupposition which needs to be made explicit and justified . |
| 21 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 22 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 23 | I do n't like being alive , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ All right , I do n't like being alone in the house with the children , I admit that … ’ |
| 25 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ People in my patch do n't like being unpopular , ’ a worker from Manchester said . |
| 27 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 28 | Employers who are aware of a problem and who do n't act are liable to be prosecuted . |
| 29 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 30 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |