Example sentences of "[adj] does [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cliché is true : April 1993 does herald the beginning and not the end of a process of change for social services . |
| 2 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |
| 3 | The second edition of Introduction to High Energy Physics by D. H. Perkins requires considerable initial knowledge of quantum theory , but this does make it possible to use Feynmann diagrams immediately . |
| 4 | It is interesting to see the raw material of event transformed into poetry , though this does make for a certain degree of repetition . |
| 5 | It is interesting to see the raw material of event transformed into poetry , though this does make for a certain degree of repetition . |
| 6 | Less expensive boots are made from split leather or suede , and some have a polyurethane coating to make them waterproof but this does make the boot less breathable . |
| 7 | Admittedly legal training may be a bit wider , and may include elements of economics and political science , erm than the kind of training that we have in Britain , but it is nonetheless a law-dominated training , and this does make for a difference erm in approach , I think . |
| 8 | Of course a scheme like this does incur considerable costs , but it will be for the benefit of the town and help to preserve a record of a popular part of Bishop 's Castle 's history , while we still have people who remember ‘ our ’ railway and travelled on it . |
| 9 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 10 | A further solution is to permanently silicone the hanger into place but this does create problems with cleaning the glass behind . |
| 11 | However , this does suggest that the motives are not so ‘ special ’ as to preclude the possibility of a considerable disparity between the prevalence of motives and the prevalence of actions . |
| 12 | What this does suggest , at a very superficial reading , is that the transformations from science have not swept all before them , but they themselves may have been captured , and made familiar and thereby totally unscientific in content , by much older symbolic systems . |
| 13 | and we 've just rung these people up from the Yellow Pages , I mean this does suggest does n't it that there 's quite a f quite a a big market out there for this stuff ? |
| 14 | This does suggest that it is men are doing the raping . |
| 15 | There has been a fairly consistent finding in such studies that this does tend to be the case . |
| 16 | And this does tend to add weight to the suggestion that the result of the three month cystoscopy is a good guide to the likelihood of developing recurrence . |
| 17 | This does tend to be rather an out-of-the-way place , I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | However , this does appear to be the case . |
| 19 | If not , use the arrows icon until this does appear ) Take the cross pointer to the last square at the right , you will see that this is column 45 . |
| 20 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 21 | This does appear to be what happens . |
| 22 | If this does appear to be happening there is a need either to warn the teachers in the unit documentation or maybe even to indicate possible dangers within the program . |
| 23 | Upon reflection this does appear to be the likely cause of LLD . |
| 24 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 25 | Erm the views of the er of the subcommittee are that that this does appear to be er perhaps a practical solution er and at the moment , er we are looking to erm make some of the spaces , certainly in the Church Street car park erm short term , I E two hours , certainly so the people who are who are making shopping visits , or visits to the banks et cetera would get the lower car park and the the people who are staying for a longer time would be at the top . |
| 26 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 27 | It is possible to make dulcimers of different sizes and shapes but this does affect the sound produced . |
| 28 | As for the conversion of mass into energy , this does affect stars in a calculable fashion . |
| 29 | This does give Europe the possibility of a role , perhaps in bringing the war to an end , when unwise forces in Washington may want to continue the war too long , and also to play a role in clearing up the mess afterwards , although its going to be a terrifying mess . |
| 30 | Mind you , this does give me an unfair advantage . |