Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [modal v] do [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photocopier will do the latter job for you . |
| 2 | ‘ If I do what you ask , ’ said Osman , ‘ can I be sure that the Copts will do the same ? ’ |
| 3 | There were genuine attempts to curb these activities but the PLO could do no more than send its security units into the streets to prevent looting . |
| 4 | Even so the president could do no more than test the reaction of the ambassador to some of the advice and conclusions of his own government machine . |
| 5 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 6 | On television that evening Mobutu said that the conference could do no more than write the new constitution , and could not adopt it . |
| 7 | Too weak to bargain over the State 's impositions , the townsmen could do no more than try to spread the burden as thinly as possible . |
| 8 | Well , the cape would do no more than implicate Putt in the rape of the gipsy girl and it seems she 's married and gone . |
| 9 | He noted that the USA was already in search of bilateral aviation agreements , with the aim of obtaining air rights on a piecemeal basis , and he advocated that the UK should do the same . |
| 10 | He hopes the burglars will do the same . |
| 11 | In its evidence in chief , the prosecution need do no more than adduce evidence of one of the circumstances required by the offence of criminal sexual conduct . |
| 12 | The hole may twist and turn and the ferret will do no more than tie itself to the root while simply passing along the burrow . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course the traffickers would do no such thing . |
| 14 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 15 | The commonest evasions , certainly well known in the twelfth century , were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was , or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land ; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest ; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same . |
| 16 | May we have an assurance that the Minister will do the same ? |
| 17 | In theory a statute could do no more than declare existing law ; and statutes were cast in a declaratory form . |
| 18 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |
| 19 | You know , a dog , when it 's confronted with danger it can , it can fight it 's way out a cat will do the same , every other creature will , will do something when it 's confronted with danger a se , a sheep is so intelligent and is so strong and is , has such a er , a self- preservation er er er |
| 20 | A combine would do the same job in an hour . |
| 21 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 22 | Destroying them in a brain might do the same . |