Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman might do well to remember that Great Britain includes Scotland . |
| 2 | A 1991 report by the province 's auditor-general lambasted government foresters for doing little to ensure that logging companies met British Columbia 's standards — which are far more lax than those employed by the United States Forest Service just south of the border . |
| 3 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ the King did not arrive but Patrick Seton , the body-squire did . |
| 5 | But the fact was that the world did not change as de Gaulle had predicted . |
| 6 | No , I did not mean that Dan Quayle is about to leap to his feet to make a key-note speech , or that Clive James is considering a follow-up television interview with Mrs Reagan . |
| 7 | In Hong Kong , expectations of violence in the camps did not materialise but aid workers believed the initial passivity would probably not last . |
| 8 | ‘ You did not deduce that Heather Mallender came here . |
| 9 | He did not budge as Mr Gubb raised the cane above his shoulder and fixed his eyes on the boy 's fingers with the concentration of a golfer addressing his ball . |
| 10 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 11 | Despite what many people claim , however , Freud did not say that dream interpretation shows that all dreams have a sexual content . |
| 12 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 13 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 14 | He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland . |
| 15 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 16 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 17 | ( 1977 ) , 50 per cent of Labour identifiers supported more nationalisation of industry , 61 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services , and 44 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power . |
| 18 | The minister did not believe that Tameside Council could properly implement the change within the limited time available . |
| 19 | These results did not differ when acid output was expressed as mmol/h/kg lean body mass or mmol/h/kg fat free body weight . |
| 20 | A source at the meeting did not deny that Mr Havel 's candidacy was discussed , while Father Vaclav Maly , a leading Forum activist , said he wanted to see Mr Havel as head of state . |
| 21 | The success did not come because Mr Major mastered technique . |
| 22 | He did not know that Mme Bluot had asked me not to walk in that direction ( ‘ It is a street so disreputable , madame , it could lead a child astray . ’ ) , |
| 23 | Dr James said he did not know if Tayside Health Board is to continue providing money for treatment . |
| 24 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 25 | Other holders , like individuals , pension funds and foreigners , do care about dividends but did not worry while share prices were booming . |
| 26 | With no exceptions these results have been based on poorly controlled trials which , although they do not show that herpes vaccines do n't work , certainly do not prove that they do . |
| 27 | The changes to the taxation of futures and the abolition of stamp duty do not mean that pension funds and unit trusts will become major participants in index arbitrage ; and market makers will remain well placed to execute index arbitrage transactions . |
| 28 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 29 | On the latter point , I do not think that precipitate action on sanctions is the point at issue . |
| 30 | I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |