Example sentences of "they do now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wedding Present did n't sound like they do now . |
| 2 | Sheep and goats grazed the plains , the common land , as they do now in Africa . |
| 3 | Children were n't allowed to share the adult world to the same degree as they do now . |
| 4 | BUSES rumbling through the city streets in 1986 could need 30 per cent less fuel than they do now to bring the cry ‘ standing room only ’ to impatient queues . |
| 5 | The programme in 1988 was basically the same , and I am sure audience and choirs stood then , as they do now , for the ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus . |
| 6 | Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now . |
| 7 | In the 1920s the owners of large private cellars did not , with the possible exception of vintage port , lay down wine for future consumption as they do now . |
| 8 | They do now , over most of the world … " |
| 9 | At least the politicians who told the story can hardly have believed it , and it seems unlikely that people swallowed whole everything that they were told by their masters in antiquity , any more than they do now . |
| 10 | Scott ( RH ) : And we can have jokes and things like they do now . |
| 11 | Some low income people may have reductions , as they do now with rates , probably through housing benefit . |
| 12 | If there were a direct relationship between the pursuit of electoral popularity and the determination of social policies , surely minority causes would receive much less attention than they do now , and unpopular minority causes would receive no attention at all ( or even more punitive responses ) . |
| 13 | And in m in many cases the most cost-effective procedure will be for the lad on site , the R E or the assistant R E to measure , and provide the measure to the Q Ss who will put that forward and process that in the way they do now and send out a certificate . |
| 14 | Now I , I think perhaps you 're worrying unduly , Jim in so far as , your , your men will continue to administer contracts in the way they do now . |
| 15 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 16 | People never used to get divorced like they do now . ’ |
| 17 | The pressures of urban living had not yet become such that men wished to flee , as they do now , to the mountains . |
| 18 | Used to think that was a glorious But er , not what they do now like , you know . |
| 19 | Er I think far more than they do now . |
| 20 | Er the people helped one another far more I think then than they do now because I suppose now it just is n't , it is n't necessary . |
| 21 | ‘ Think they do now ? ’ |
| 22 | The wealthy will train priests of their own , as they do now , and your churches will be empty and useless . |
| 23 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , they do now ! ’ |
| 25 | I think photographers had to be more craftsmen then than they do now . |
| 26 | Given their reputation in the 1970s , who would have thought that British car workers would match their counterparts in Japan or Germany as they do now , not only for productivity , but for quality as well ? |
| 27 | The clubs would also be able to earn more revenue than they do now . |
| 28 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 29 | Erm I do n't think I did no , oh no they did n't they would n't think of doing that then , but they do now and erm then I , I 've been around at Wiggens the old hall table where people you know , worked in the warehouse there and I 've done all sorts |
| 30 | yeah what they do now if its , if its not within sight they say we have n't got any thing |