Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where schools patently did need greater assistance , Leslie Ryder reasoned , was in the production of materials , in the planning of course units making use of resources , and in the use and operation of audio-visual and reprographic equipment . |
| 2 | In view of the interviewer 's role in the discourse , it is not clear how far or how reliably such an extended interview really does resemble spontaneous conversation ; but Labov 's schema is likely to be less demanding of the fieldworker , more economical of time and resources , and so not subject to the same range of disadvantages as the participant observation methods of the Belfast community studies . |
| 3 | Convincing evidence that animals actually do operate this way comes from James Serpell of the University of Cambridge ( Animal Behaviour , vol 30 , p 1244 ) , who has been studying the aggressive behaviour of nine species of tropical parrots of the genus Trichoglossus . |
| 4 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 5 | But the monetary authorities in most advanced countries normally do make such contingency plans , and therefore the administration lag is unlikely to be excessive . |
| 6 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 7 | Denzil always did like bright colours . |
| 8 | Fleece jackets and pullovers really do offer significant advantages , but there are scores on the market at the moment , which makes choosing the right one a little difficult . |
| 9 | The shape of the group really does give some impression of an arrow ! |
| 10 | Of course , this a justified objection ; and I am ready to concede that in most historical examples one might like to point out things probably did happen that way round . |
| 11 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 12 | Compared with the £20 prices now becoming typical for the likes of popular Grandes Marques , such as Veuve Clicquot , these wines really do represent remarkable value . |
| 13 | While the availability of suitable terms presumably does reflect prevailing myths about sexuality and rape , there is nothing abstract about it : the language itself constitutes an act of violence and actively recreates the same cultural beliefs . |
| 14 | The usual adult ticket price is £13 and children 's £9.99 so the Sainsbury 's offer really does represent good value . |
| 15 | And it will be interesting to see if people really do like happy endings . |
| 16 | Excess sugar really does cause many problems for lots of people . |
| 17 | The five-way selector deals out all the sounds you would expect to find and the tone control really does add more sparkle , rather than ( as is so often the case ) rendering everything tinny and harsh . |
| 18 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 19 | But Brian actually did interview one person , for forty-five minutes ? |
| 20 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 21 | The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term . |
| 22 | The one redeeming feature was that Groups initially did select good crews , many of them second-tour types . |
| 23 | The patterns of speech are rooted in a society where men literally do have more power than women , and indeed power over women . |
| 24 | The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other . |
| 25 | Not spelling your position out does have some advantages — it leaves your options slightly more open in the event of future attacks . |
| 26 | ‘ But men and women never do match each other in that kind of way — that 's life . ’ |
| 27 | In some cases , autonomous groups certainly did achieve higher levels of shop-floor control , but were not widely popular with management , presumably for that reason . |