Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps , after all , you really do secretly relish the thought of sharing a house with me . ’ |
| 2 | The lazy punkas overhead do little to ease the discomfort of the temperature and humidity . |
| 3 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 4 | Faxes and telephones add to the flow of communication but do little to reduce the flow of people . |
| 5 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 6 | It is less easy to see , for instance , how the meaning of a loss such as bereavement could be so readily reinterpreted , or whether such attempts do much to reduce the risk of depression . |
| 7 | Nor did early twentieth-century state welfare provision do much to alleviate the position of working class wives because it too assumed the existence of the bourgeois family model and a family wage . |
| 8 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 9 | Unless started very early in the course of the disease , antibiotics do not prevent the development of abscesses and can sometimes just delay their development . |
| 10 | However , both these situations do not prevent the development of a euro-market in the currency concerned , providing it is fully convertible for non-residents of those countries and is deposited in a bank outside of their national boundaries . |
| 11 | The rules do not prevent the use of extrinsic evidence in interpreting genuine ambiguities in the words of the contract . |
| 12 | The written sources are almost silent about the subject of internal trade , just as the details of overseas trade do not match the volume of archaeological evidence . |
| 13 | As to interpreters , I do not speak every language of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 14 | We behave in the ‘ here and now ’ and do not examine every move as a scientific investigation . |
| 15 | However , these studies do not examine the binding of NCp7 to the DNA ends . |
| 16 | Our results do not clarify the nature of the GOR-asthma relation or the mechanisms of reflux induced asthma . |
| 17 | 5.9.12 Notwithstanding clause 5.9.1 the Tenant may share the occupation of the whole or any part of the Premises with franchisees or concessionaires on terms which do not create the relationship of landlord and tenant between the Tenant and such franchisees or concessionaires provided that the Tenant shall give written notice to the Landlord within 21 days of the commencement and termination of such arrangements |
| 18 | However , the case for a greater role for the Community in the industrial policy area does have some merit , particularly in the fields of R&D programmes and to ensure that national policies do not hinder the development of pan-European business operations . |
| 19 | Although most people with IBS in the community do not consult a physician for their symptoms ; the treatment of those who do is time-consuming and expensive . |
| 20 | These also can not occur in postnominal attributive position ; we have cited the unacceptability of postnominal sheer in ( 34 ) , and of course ( 39 ) is equally unsatisfactory : ( 39 ) a team-manager former was brought out of retirement We can also observe that , for the same reason , qualifying nouns , which do not instantiate a property of the head noun , are excluded as a class from postnominal position except , again , for phrases borrowed from French , such as Tournedos Rossini . |
| 21 | The available ways of understanding are systematically skewed towards representing the social system and its conflicts in ways which do not threaten the hegemony of capital . |
| 22 | Self-assured enough to make decisions , clarify your goals and take risks , other people 's definitions , needs and opinions do not represent a threat to you . |
| 23 | Thus if all cancers discovered at necropsy were identified clinically and treated then 26 out of 27 patients would be treated unnecessarily because these tumours do not represent a threat to their lives . |
| 24 | Fortunately , most are benign by nature and do not represent a threat in terms of predation . |
| 25 | Unfortunately those clause do not represent a commitment by the Government to make that system work . |
| 26 | A US State Department spokesperson , as quoted on May 18 , welcomed " public and private assurances by the Iraqi Kurdish leadership that these elections will deal only with local administrative issues and do not represent a move towards separatism " . |
| 27 | The lifestyles in The Swimming Pool Library do not represent the entirety of the gay scene , but by locating the gay male scene so firmly within the traditional English class structure , Hollinghurst reminds us why the gay scene alone is not enough . |
| 28 | Goody himself provides a telling example of how ‘ scientific ’ progress may be the product of social forces which , in themselves , do not represent the kind of scholarly community and logical thought which he extols . |
| 29 | These cover a period from 1442 to 1560 and obviously do not represent the whole of the villagers at this time , but are of those whose names appear in the index of wills of the Rochester Consistory Court . |
| 30 | It is worth noting at this point that many young readers do not recognize the distinction between ‘ fiction ’ and ‘ non-fiction ’ that many adults seem to find critically significant . |