Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Norm referenced measures of learning , always a dominant , presently an overbearing , influence on the education scene , do little to encourage this approach to human development in both student and teacher populations .
2 Where jobs are available , there is evidence that higher AFDC payments do apparently encourage more people to remain dependent on the state than where they are lower , but overall variations in labour market buoyancy mean that ‘ analyses which place the blame for poverty among these families upon the welfare ‘ largesse ’ are deficient' ( p. 210 ) .
3 We do all do some other political things , Sheila .
4 But we do all recognise that without that balance , in certain instances , absolutism can easily spill over into extremism .
5 But not everyone does consent , nor do all have this attitude .
6 The sharp combination of savage and city along with ritual and music-hall elements do much to make this the most powerful of Eliot 's comedies .
7 If you 've got no choice but to get out and walk then you are gon na have to do that , and that 's all very well being a day like today , where it 's not pouring down with rain er , you 're not walking in a pitch black area , but if you do suddenly change that and you put it into those sort of , well that sort of scenario you 'll find it 's very , very , frightening .
8 Do not tell any about me nor anyone except father and possibly Frank , write at once if you are going to .
9 Unless you want to be force-fed stale angel cakes until you weigh 73 stones , do not tell these jokes at your Aunty 's .
10 come up to get her , do not tell another lie any more .
11 While the rules do not prevent this , Home Officer Circular 48/1991 , para 58 makes it clear that such an arrangement involves unnecessary duplication and should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances .
12 Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms .
13 Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive .
14 The District Council considers that the objection sites do not perform any of the greenbelt functions .
15 Strangely , they do not examine these reasons , although the level of feminine domesticity is a crucial link in their argument about the existence of close-knit kinship networks in working-class communities .
16 DO NOT START ANY WORK UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS APPROVAL .
17 Do not start any work until you have received written approval . ’
18 Tell me there are a few men , somewhere , who do not think such dreadful thoughts , do not commit such unspeakable deeds .
19 The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead .
20 It would be foolish for politicians to accept interest group claims or activity at face value , since the signals from organized groups do not represent any kind of reliable picture of underlying citizen views .
21 We do not move any nuclear weapons by road , and would not do so , unless it was safe to do so .
22 Do not neglect any part of the plant being pressed , because you can usually find some use for it .
23 But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations .
24 I must make it clear at once that I personally do not regard these particular decisions as a constitutional question such as most certainly was the appointment of the chairman .
25 I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein .
26 we do not regard this as irreligious in any way .
27 However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable .
28 While those taking a ‘ realistic ’ view ( believing that the convention no longer applies in true form ) do not regard this as a problem , adherents to the ‘ traditional ’ view ( mainly academics and some senior civil servants ) argue that it is ( Robinson et al . ,
29 I therefore do not regard those authorities as affecting what I would conclude was the clear language of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1977 , that a statutory tenant remains a statutory tenant so long as he occupies the dwelling house as his residence .
30 Perhaps they do not conclude this ; if so , why do n't they make their views known to the Secretary of State for Scotland before he approves this scheme ?
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