Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
2 | So far , we have discussed the taxes that would do least harm to the allocative efficiency of the economy . |
3 | The nature of the Shell Miri contract is such that we can be called upon to do further work outside the basic contract for instrumentation systems on the offshore structure . |
4 | All these things which I have said the Fulani by conquest took the right to do now pass to the British … |
5 | When he did eventually lose to the young South African by , the tournament appeared to suffer from a hangover . |
6 | I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’ |
7 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
8 | Mammalian babies , when they do finally emerge into the outside world , still need their mother 's milk to complete the building of their highly complex bodies and they may continue to suckle for years . |
9 | The important point in the above definition is the assertion that things which differ in some common qualities do nevertheless belong to the larger class . |
10 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
11 | India has all of these except cheetahs ( though they did once extend through the Middle East ) ; and its own wild dog , the dhole , replaces the African wild dog . |
12 | HISTORY will judge whether the Rivonia treason trial , which began in 1963 , did more damage to the African National Congress or to the South African government . |
13 | But there is no doubt that many of his generation did and do still appeal to the heroic myth . |
14 | Yes , Jewish doctors did indeed care for the Arab villagers then , although Mrs Zamzam had mispronounced the names . |
15 | If Glu-Ser-Gln-Glu did indeed correspond to the minimal DNA-PK phosphorylation site , we reasoned that this region of c-Jun might serve as a phosphorylation site when placed in the context of another protein . |
16 | It could and did then turn on the assured men — but as collaborators , rather than as religious dissidents . |
17 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
18 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
19 | Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule ! |
20 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
21 | But does n't talk , he does only talk about the economic |
22 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
23 | By avoiding the insoluble problems surrounding jurisdictional terminology it does however focus on the relevant issues directly : whose opinion on the existence and meaning of a statutory term should be accepted , that of the agency or that of the courts ? |
24 | The manual includes some incredibly helpful diagrams , although it does occasionally lapse into the incomprehensible jargon and figures which are common to most printer documentation . |