Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] do [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at .
2 The past three months have seen almost daily developments , and a 15-minute speech and 15-minute reply can not do justice to the huge amount of information that must be shared and analysed .
3 These few pages can not do justice to the array of benefits which a partnership with AEA could bring .
4 A summary can hardly do justice to the corpus as a whole , but it is easy enough to point to the settlement 's principal weaknesses .
5 No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation .
6 Although this brief outline can not do justice to the complexity and detail of Poulantzas ' work , it does convey enough of its character and aspirations to form the basis of a critical discussion , and in this part of the chapter I shall focus on three connected questions , all concerned with the explanatory power of the theory .
7 Inevitably a brief account can not do justice to individual writers and exaggerates the extent of agreement within each broad perspective , but it does emphasise central points of similarity and difference .
8 A brief summary of the arthropods can not do justice to all the fascinating specialized groups — sea spiders and mites for example — that have an incomplete fossil record .
9 Historical metaphors can never do justice to the complexity of a country 's past , but at this early stage of my trip I felt I was beginning to discern a snake 's energy and inertia in Peru 's past .
10 This brief note can not do justice to all the facts and arguments involved .
11 This section can not do justice to the body of literature on the new public management which has emerged , but will focus on two critical themes .
12 The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker .
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