Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] they [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stable work forces have their advantages in terms of familiarity with the enterprise and its peculiar needs but they do result in problems if the market for the products is erratic or otherwise unpredictable . |
| 2 | They do not try to prove causal relationships but they do try to understand how events bring about change from one state of affairs to another . |
| 3 | I mean I do n't have to wear black shoes but they do suit |
| 4 | ‘ The old Vox amps are really temperamental ; they 're great-sounding amps but they do go through tubes . |
| 5 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 6 | Almost as proof , Kinnaird and Marie Steele , lecturer in Strathclyde University 's department of human resources management and one of the four opening speakers acting as ‘ catalysts ’ for the discussion , set the dismal scene : the unbelievably low number of female applicants for top jobs , the discontinuity between the high rate of female academic achievement in secondary , tertiary and professional education and career patterns , the patchiness of those career patterns in various sectors where they did break through . |
| 7 | You would n't think men could die of br die of breast cancer , but they do because men have residual nipples and they do produce small amounts of oestrogen . |
| 8 | Educational psychologists also work with children under school age who are likely to have special educational needs when they do start school , usually those children with a severe , or early-diagnosed , difficulty . |
| 9 | But we 're big boys and they do say big boys do n't cry ’ |
| 10 | That the dish is tasty and that another helping will upset the stomach are relevant facts because they do modify inclination ; that it is a rainy or a sunny day and that the wallpaper is yellow or white are irrelevant because they do not move the child in either direction . |