Example sentences of "[noun] often do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employment in the formal sector has stagnated , and where opportunities are available , school-leavers often do not have the specific skills required . |
| 2 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 3 | As well as distortions to the official figures produced by police recording practice , there are a variety of reasons why victims of crime often do not report offences . |
| 4 | However , speakers often do not provide such explicit guidelines to help the analyst select chunks of discourse for study . |
| 5 | ‘ But then teenagers often do n't talk to their parents about that sort of thing . |
| 6 | I might try to read , but the words often do n't make much sense ! ’ |
| 7 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 8 | This illustrates a point discussed later ( p. 181 ) that repeat overdoses often do occur despite apparent improvement in patients ' social circumstances . |
| 9 | It discovered ‘ that death certificates often do not mention asbestos diseases even when the coroner has conclusive and documented evidence that they were the cause of death . |
| 10 | The claim of ICI chief economist , Richard Freeman , that ‘ R&D intensive companies often do not have a market rating appropriate to their future profitability , ’ is central to the debate on institutional and managerial short-termism . |
| 11 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 12 | While attempting to make the wheelchair or baby-buggy pusher 's life easier , planners often do not help by making ramps up and over steps too steep for any but the most fearless . |
| 13 | Patients with a normal exercise test often do well while those who have a dramatically positive test do not . |
| 14 | Naturally broken sequences Record keys often do not start as an unbroken sequence . |
| 15 | Although manicurists in salons often do , the new thinking is do n't ; soap and water may soften the cuticles but can be a cause of brittle nails . |
| 16 | As pure scientists , these enthusiasts often do not imagine the consequences for society as a whole . |
| 17 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 18 | Scots crews often do well there . |
| 19 | We know , too , that meteorites often do contain complex organic molecules . |
| 20 | In the private service sector , where trade unions are less active , temporary workers often do not receive the same level of fringe benefits as permanent workers ; and in some organisations and industries they are paid at a lower rate — for example the statutory minimum rather than a higher , collectively bargained rate — than are comparable permanent workers [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 21 | Small booksellers often do n't have time to see however many reps would be calling on them ; they would much rather put all their orders together and send them to Hammicks or to Heathcote or whoever ; we will work with them on that . |
| 22 | Of course it looks a bit different , places often do when you come back to them , but I think I remember — soon as you turned the bend and saw the tunnel — yes , there it is ! |
| 23 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |
| 24 | Companies who want to open a new store or shop often do a lot of research into socioeconomics . |
| 25 | Museum curators often do not acquire more than one coin of the same type , and may additionally exercise their own judgement about which coins are worth obtaining . |
| 26 | Two of the things dogs often do when anxious are to chew or lose toilet control — and so the whole situation becomes a vicious circle . |
| 27 | Another problem of compatibility ( or the lack of it ) can manifest itself when attempting to use effects with an amp 's effects loop : older valve amps or budget combos often do n't even have them ! |
| 28 | It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts . |
| 29 | We shall see , by the end of this book , that a simple and practical distinction between fabliau and exemplum can be drawn , but that the same stories often do service in both categories . |
| 30 | Erm another thing is , going back to the point about erm er when you 're a child grown-ups often do rather unpleasant things to you and expect you to comply . |