Example sentences of "do [verb] a difference " in BNC.
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| 1 | THAT governments do make a difference is an important presumption of free competitive elections . |
| 2 | One school , led by S. E. Finer , claims that the parties do make a difference and that , because parties have become more partisan , this is regrettable . |
| 3 | So , " parties do make a difference in the way Britain is governed … [ but ] the differences in office between one party and another are less likely to arise from contrasting intentions than from the exigencies of government " . |
| 4 | Owen , significantly , makes repeated reference to the work of those who insist that ‘ schools do make a difference ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ People accuse us of being a chain hotel with a standardised product , but we believe our staff do make a difference , and that our systems should never be unwieldy . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the Spanish Civil War did make a difference for the conference condemned the non-intervention policy adopted by the major powers , for it was being flouted by Italians , Germans and Russians , and recommended that the Spanish republican government should be allowed to buy arms . |
| 8 | But I did make it and the colour did make a difference in a way I did n't expect . |
| 9 | But it did make a difference — she realized that in the long hours she lay awake thinking about it . |
| 10 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |
| 11 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 12 | One very important datum for the answer is exactly the fact that , as users of the language , we do recognize a difference between sentences like ( 63 ) and ( 64 ) ; intuitively we are aware that if [ E P ] is an intensional entity in ( 64 ) , then it is an entity in some different way from the subject of ( 63 ) . |
| 13 | We do have a difference in vacancies . |
| 14 | Oh well you will have a little when you 're dealing with little items you do get a difference . |
| 15 | When this happens the authoritative directive does make a difference . |
| 16 | The more detailed analysis presented here therefore strongly suggests that the Home Support Project does make a difference . |
| 17 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |
| 18 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 19 | Erm if I put two times brackets three add six it does make a difference . |
| 20 | The short answer is that in many countries the fact that there is a Constitution does make a difference . |
| 21 | With his leg and one thing and another it does make a difference having a ‘ phone … |
| 22 | It does make a difference — red wine and an airbed . |
| 23 | Yes , I 'd argue that it does make a difference , because we are announcing the fact that er we are coming along to possibly alert somebody er that we were coming into a building and then hence we encounter even more problems . |
| 24 | Any state has limitations on how it can behave , they 're partly geographical , it does make a difference whether you 're an island or whether you 've got no coastline at all . |
| 25 | But when you 're very ill like that it ma it does make a difference does n't it ? |
| 26 | I I think it does make a difference , going over the bridge . |