Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 2 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 3 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 4 | In some respects they do have some characteristics that are similar to the French ones . |
| 5 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
| 6 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
| 7 | Yet in other sonnets it does have those connotations of exclusion and separation . |
| 8 | Are young children naturally inclined to find non-natural concepts which do straddle these categories relatively difficult to learn ? |
| 9 | There are lots of things we do to get that form to there , we 're actually paid to move that form to there . |
| 10 | The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance , inside information and relentless harrassment . |
| 11 | The solution for male doctors who do rough pelvic exams on women might begin in medical schools , where each male student would be placed in stirrups and a strange female MD would come and ‘ squeeze his balls and leave without saying a word ’ . |
| 12 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 13 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 14 | I mean I think there are groups of women all over the country very interested in feminism and doing lots of good work and providing support for women who do want some sort of change , and so if that 's what you mean by the women 's liberation movement I think it 's a very good thing . |
| 15 | Yet 95 per cent of diets fail , and among the 5 per cent of women who do achieve permanent weight-loss , many have developed serious eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia . |
| 16 | The technical pensions literature of the early 1960s advised employers to leave women out of pension schemes and give ex gratia ( unfunded ) pensions to that dwindling minority of single women who did become long-serving employees ( Pilch and Wood , 1960 , p. 80 ) . |
| 17 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 18 | All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards . |