Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the time being , the practical effect of the change will be limited to accountants lobbying for a change in the law in the vast majority of states that do not permit accountants to incorporate — only Colorado , Hawaii , Kansas and Wyoming allow it at present . |
| 2 | The defendants paid in cash the balance of £250 but did not deliver the lorries . |
| 3 | We want , above all else , a system of inspection that does not derive from ideology , that is not a quick fix , that does not represent a commitment to privatisation on the ground that the Department of Education and Science must deliver its element of privatisation . |
| 4 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 5 | it 's terrible , awful showing her sense of responsibility and doing what she says she 's going to do . |
| 6 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 7 | Right now there are plenty of religions that do n't show this er pattern of trauma , repression and latency of return of the repressed , they , they just kind of go on from er from time immemorial , erm and there are plenty of examples of that . |
| 8 | These , with automatic fire-alarms going off inexplicably , account for a far higher percentage of calls than do fires . |
| 9 | Although there are no minority reports , a peer who has reservations about the conclusions of a report is not bound in debate by collective responsibility , and debates , which , of course , are for the whole House , often show more diversity of views than does the report . |
| 10 | In a lot of cases that does seem to happen , but I think it 's partly because people do the wrong things in training . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 've any sense you 'll grab a pair of skis and do the same . |
| 12 | For predators make just as much use of camouflage as do their prey . |
| 13 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 14 | Three outfits costing an amount of money that did n't bear thinking about , but which were nevertheless perfect . |
| 15 | The functions , including in particular those to be carried out for the direct benefit of individual members of the public , such as social services , may require the borrowing of money and do require the recruiting and employment of many men and women to work for the council . |
| 16 | He was an influential figure in the founding of the Royal College of Pathologists and did much as secretary of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland to create and foster links with sister European societies , especially in Holland and Norway . |
| 17 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 18 | Ensuring that all children studied a broad range of subjects and did not drop at too early a stage in their school careers subjects which might be useful to them later . |
| 19 | It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " . |
| 20 | In other words the states of mind that do nothing for the healing process . |
| 21 | We hope that the Government will listen reasonably to them , because they have been tabled in a reasonable frame of mind and do not make party political points . |
| 22 | I was in and out of relationships and did n't feel any particular urge to use prostitutes . |
| 23 | It says that it is unlikely to be built New Mexico and that California , where the costs of living and doing business are extremely high , had a strong expense disadvantage . |
| 24 | She said anyway she was away to make a wee cup of tea and did I take sugar ? |
| 25 | The irony of murder as doing a lot — doing anything — bears the stamp of Svidrigailov . |
| 26 | Somehow though , The Fall of Yugoslavia comes across as a series of fragments that do n't quite make a whole , and any attempts to go beyond the yawn-capacity of school history books are sadly flawed . |
| 27 | The first , Chapter 4 , deals with the measurements of crime , the extent and character of recorded crime and the dangers of assuming that the criminal statistics accurately reflect the amount and character of crime that does occur . |
| 28 | Shop option account Flexible credit facility very similar to credit card , but restricted to one shop or chain of shops and does not permit cash loans . |
| 29 | The plaintiff 's accountant Mr confines himself to quantifying the heads of loss and does n't speak with reference to the er allegations that are made in any way . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel quite capable of using the miracle of science to forge links of friendship and do a great deal of good throughout the world , ’ Cook said . |