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 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | We do have a difference in vacancies . |
| 9 | Oh well you will have a little when you 're dealing with little items you do get a difference . |