Example sentences of "they do [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What wo what would they do without the eternal triangle ? |
| 2 | What are they to do in the changed circumstances ? |
| 3 | Third , they would have the same percentage — 55.6 — of the list votes as they did of the actual constituency votes . |
| 4 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 5 | They can go there as they did with the industrial conferences , but we have to make this careful balance between parts of our membership . |
| 6 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 7 | An even more important feature was that many Europeans came not to administer but to settle permanently , which they did on a large scale in Kenya and Zimbabwe , smaller numbers also being found in Zambia and Tanzania . |
| 8 | And it may be that the Gardener Centre has a broader community function than previously realized , in that it might be a marvellous place for families and kids and mums and dads , as they did on the recent Gardener Open Day , to come up and spend some time in casual appreciation of the arts instead of what , traditionally , a university campus is supposed to do , which is a serious and intensive look at experimental and avant garde work . |
| 9 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 10 | People will spend more on cooking oil during the lifetime of the machine that they did on the initial capital cost of the machine . |
| 11 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 12 | This they did at an Intergovernmental Conference in 1837 when Hessen , defensive of its national sovereignty , suggested a parallel currency rather like the hard ecu . |
| 13 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 14 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 15 | What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years . |
| 16 | But there was no er pointing this out and pointing that out , that 's wrong , as he did As they did in the pre-nationalization days . |
| 17 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 18 | They no longer dress like men as they did in the Mughal court ; instead they deck themselves in jewellery and cosmetics and wear saris . |
| 19 | And an ideal little workshop for anybody doing work as they did in the early days , most of the components of a motor car had to made . |
| 20 | Shafts of sunlight probe down into secret nooks and woodland hollows , just as they did in the wintry days to frustrate the birds in their efforts to conceal nests . |
| 21 | Children cost twice as much to education there than they did in the outer London Boroughs , or indeed out in the styx as we are here in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | There was virtually no INSET , and schools felt that PNP resourcing had very little impact on what they did in the home-school area . |
| 23 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 24 | The most radical of these new mayors , like Bassam Shak'a of Nablus and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah , found themselves facing almost as much difficulty from Jordan and the PLO leadership as they did from the Israeli authorities . |
| 25 | The Pentland Hills are viewed increasingly as an area with high recreational potential , lying as they do on the very doorstep of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ she said , ‘ what they do at the actual ceremony . ’ |
| 27 | We have the county council and the district councils telling us what a good job they do at the present time , spending a lot of money in doing it , we have provided this largely out of our own efforts , we 've got grants from er other bodies , I think it 's something that we should properly erm hallmark as an initiative of this parish council to celebrate one hundred years of parish government , and I would propose centenary field . |
| 28 | What will they do to people if this is what they do to a dumb animazl that has n't even annoyed them . |
| 29 | I think they do to a certain extent , but the teachers try and erm brush it away , they try and forget that they are soldiers ' children and try and help them mix in with the civilian children . |
| 30 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |