Example sentences of "these do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 2 | An exception to this general conclusion concerns economic support where class is important because , even using the rather crude categories of middle class and working class , we can see that these do represent different levels of access to financial and other economic resources . |
| 3 | The domestic situation in which things take place , they are really very different and you can start to draw up categories , of course , of countries , small big maybe , small medium big democratic non-democratic , er military dictatorships civilian government erm and so on , so there are whole series of categories of governments that you can draw up and you can say well these do make a difference in the way erm foreign policy is created . |
| 4 | Riots , staff unrest , the malaise in the probation service and the political problems caused by the penal system are not the direct results of a high prison population or a lack of money or of decent prison buildings ( although these do contribute to the crisis ) , but result from what people believe and how they feel — from the moral reactions of people within and outside the penal system to the material situation . |
| 5 | Although writing on behalf of cycling interests , these do coincide to an extent with the interests of walkers and horse riders . |
| 6 | These do wear out ! |
| 7 | Unlike the other rock-bottom Pilz discs , these do have adequate notes . |
| 8 | Some would say experience , intelligence , motivational skills and things like that — and , of course , these do have their place . |
| 9 | These do occur on the farmland , too , but not in such numbers and they 're much more difficult to see there . |
| 10 | These do seem to admit of answers in terms of the working criteria of veterinarians , farm and abattoir inspectors and zoo managers . |
| 11 | Actually these do look good actually do n't they ? |
| 12 | These do require a certain degree of inference , but it is clear that under some conditions such remains can suggest the name of a sponsor , the reason for sponsorship , and the presence of a respected craftsmen or group of craftsmen At Avenches — and probably at Bavay — in France , and at Seriana and Timgad in North Africa , the names of individual craftsmen are attested ( although , as is shown by the inscription from Timgad , even differing ideas of the practice in which the craftsman was involved are apparent ) . |
| 13 | These do work ! |
| 14 | I only hope all these do know how great and how sincere is our gratitude . |
| 15 | LEDs alongside certain buttons indicate which mode of operation has been selected and these do help in keeping tabs on what 's happening during programming . |
| 16 | But once the first of these did arrive , Edward Plantagenet lost no time in testing their quality . |
| 17 | Linebaugh 's list is not confined to the putting-out trades , but these did allow a special facility . |
| 18 | There were three bells by the side of the door , and these did have names written by them . |
| 19 | Except when there was a crisis , and these did happen , even on Friday afternoons , vast shockwaves suddenly jarring the normal smooth running of the system . |
| 20 | In fact , only 154 cars were treated thus , but these did include four ex-Croydon cars . |
| 21 | Despite such contradictions the unanimity of the manuscripts in the preservation of the first sixty-five titles makes it clear that these did constitute a code , and it seems probable that other surviving legislation postdates this compilation , and was , at times , intended to complement it . |
| 22 | Installing these does tend to be substantially easier on a Macintosh because here the screen is of a fixed resolution . |
| 23 | Moreover , to imagine these does seem to be to imagine something with quite strong positive value . |