Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what they do not show is what teenage girls feel . |
| 2 | What the overall figures do not show is the way in which the activity of banking business has changed over the last decade . |
| 3 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 4 | What these boardroom blouses and toerags at the turnstiles do not realise is that football management is not a skill to be acquired through hard work , but a gift from God . |
| 5 | Where statistically significant differences do not exist is between high-achieving men and high-achieving women . |
| 6 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 7 | One person I do not fancy is Luke Skywalker |
| 8 | The one thing you do not do is to plant your tree and then start looking for something to use for ties , any more than you bash a stake in afterwards and damage the roots . |
| 9 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 10 | The one thing they do not do is to re-examine the original for the tell-tale signs of forgery . |
| 11 | What they do not do is to make the case for charging token sums to a small minority of users . |
| 12 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What we do not want is lessons laid down by law . |
| 16 | What we most certainly do not want is a dog with high fearlessness and high sharpness . |
| 17 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 18 | On savings , the one thing that we do not want is a return to the Labour Government 's policies of the 1970s . |
| 19 | ‘ What I do not understand is where is the water ? |
| 20 | What I do not understand is why you do n't love me . ’ |
| 21 | What we do not know is who came to power in Northumbria during Ceolwulf 's temporary deposition nor whether there was any connection between the controversies surrounding Wilfrid and those now involving Acca . |
| 22 | What we do not know is how it squares those beliefs with its later beliefs in market forces , the EC and industrial efficiency . |
| 23 | What we do not know is how far these were typical , but it is worth remembering that the letters of both the Pastons and the Stonors are largely concerned with family concerns rather than national politics . |
| 24 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 25 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |
| 26 | We should read the catalogue descriptions with circumspection — what they do not say is invariably more important than what they do — and we need to be more guarded when reading articles by newspaper reporters whose effusions are often more flamboyant than they should be . |
| 27 | Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored . |
| 28 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 29 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 30 | ‘ We are trying to turn around a situation we do not deny is difficult , ’ admits one Ferruzzi executive . |