Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if do you have that information on your computer , I was think that if you did that consistently over a year . |
| 2 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 22 , Cam was reluctant to accept the post and only did so after Do Muoi personally pressed him . |
| 3 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 4 | I 'd cut my throat rather than do it again … |
| 5 | It should be made clear that this is on a completely self-financing basis and that at an increasing number of dinners spouses now attend the dinner rather than do their own thing . |
| 6 | Rather than do a keyhole job on Loyd , TODAY asked him to choose his ideal home from the hundreds of celebrity houses he has visited . |
| 7 | Rather than do anything about it , the Council pay the farmers a subsidy to filter the water . |
| 8 | ‘ Gentleman Jim ’ had previously retired from the ring rather than do combat with a black man , but was tempted in an effort to curb the mounting confidence of blacks and re-establish white dominance in the sport . |
| 9 | Rather than do this piecemeal over several years , Mr Moore chose to complete the process in five months flat . |
| 10 | And it became difficult , so in the end , rather than committing myself when people phoned up saying can you come and do a job for me , rather than do it badly and not being there and being unreliable I 'd say : ‘ No . |
| 11 | He hated sitting still , and remained constantly on the move , restless and seemingly tireless , preferring to call for needle and thread to mend his own clothes rather than do nothing . |
| 12 | If — as appears to be the case — detected offenders typically start from a position of social disadvantage ( which means that the obligation to obey the law weighs more heavily upon them than on others ) then punishment will tend to increase inequality rather than do the opposite . |
| 13 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 14 | With a hardware cost of around £35,000 for a single workstation and a film recorder the majority of the potential users were quite happy to employ a bureau rather than do it all themselves . |
| 15 | Learn to be things rather than do things for the sufferer . |
| 16 | She gave him a gracious little nod , determined to die first rather than do any such thing . |
| 17 | I think that may be easier to do rather than do them in situ , you know ? |
| 18 | Well I think you should get dressed rather than do that . |
| 19 | I mean rather than do all the photocopying or whatever . |
| 20 | Rather than do this . |
| 21 | For on the outside , they live far more lavishly than do ‘ ordinary ’ criminals , and experience a correspondingly greater contrast between ‘ normal ’ and prison life … |
| 22 | It was concluded that mammalian carnivores produce greater degrees of breakage generally than do avian raptors , and there are sufficient differences between them to enable identification of the predator on breakage pattern alone at least to family level . |
| 23 | You know , sooner than do that . |
| 24 | More recently Gallop has remarked her suspicion of the wish to deny sexual difference because it ‘ might be but another mode of denying women ’ , adding : ‘ I distrust male homosexuals because they choose men over women just as do our social and political institutions , but they too share in the struggle against bipolar gender constraints , against the compulsory choice of masculine or feminine ’ ( Thinking through the Body , 1 13 ) . |
| 25 | They express a certain mental stance to the world which others are invited to accept or reject just as do factual statements , and as mere imperatives , exclamations and interrogatives can not . |
| 26 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 27 | Calculated gross redemption yields ( real ) on index-linked bonds vary just as do yields ( in nominal terms ) on conventional bonds . |
| 28 | Those aged 75 years and over use the whole gamut of health and personal social services more than do younger people , and both usage and need increase with age thereafter . |
| 29 | Second , close relatives must resemble each other with respect to such a character more than do distantly related individuals . |
| 30 | We may conclude that rhythmic shapes determine melodies more than do pitch patterns . |