Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would also avoid all those bent wire contraptions : they may look attractive in a well photographed catalogue but do little for the design of your garden . |
| 2 | So the government risks a revolt by those rural stalwarts who do much of the legwork during general elections , as well as years of ill-mannered squabbles as the two sets of councillors argue their worth to the commission . |
| 3 | Very few writers , in Cusick 's experience , do much in the way of scene setting , and so a lot has to come from reading the dialogue and forming impressions in the mind . |
| 4 | Most of the children coming into care under section 2 of the Child Care Act do so at the request of their parents , and their parents can take them home whenever they wish . |
| 5 | Many who stay at the abbey do so at the suggestion of members of the Iona Community , of which there are some 200 scattered throughout the UK . |
| 6 | But my contract of employment forbids me from getting involved in contentious politics ; I do so at the risk of having a court order taken out against me . |
| 7 | However , the world 's preponderance of very poor people want to get richer as quickly as they can and are probably not too concerned if they do so at the expense of the environment . |
| 8 | As NOSTRO accounts increase , they do so at the expense of US domestic bank accounts . |
| 9 | Many people who get seriously into debt do so through no fault of their own . |
| 10 | Many people who get seriously into debt do so through no fault of their own . |
| 11 | All women who come to separatism do so as a reaction to the brutality and institutionalized sexism of men . |
| 12 | Most of the 2 million who belong to the National Trust ( one of the fifteen ) do so for the sake of visiting the houses it preserves , not because it is green . |
| 13 | In noting with regret that this is the final disc in Cappella Nova 's Carver series , I do so with a degree of puzzlement . |
| 14 | It seems to be a very deep-seated tradition , the need to add another stone to an existing pile , and many who climb hills today do so with a stone in their pocket to add to the cairn on the summit . |
| 15 | It is clear that the vast majority of full-time students entering higher education in the UK do so on the basis of Highers or A-levels ( 91% in the universities , 71% in the polytechnics , Smithers and Robinson , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | However the vast majority of students entering higher education do so on the basis of Highers or A-levels , and a definition of non-traditional which refers to students entering on the basis of qualifications other than the minimum prescribed Highers or A-levels or equivalent qualifications seems to be the most useful one . |
| 17 | Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades . |
| 18 | The British must refine a new history curriculum to show the national genius and thus the inferiority of all others , and do so in the face of the sleepy yawns of the poor pupils . |
| 19 | Most do better with a 3-wood off the tee because the extra loft gives confidence and is more sympathetic to an indifferent strike . |
| 20 | It is for the tribunal which decides the case to consider , not as law but as fact , whether in the whole circumstances the words of the statute do or do not as a matter of ordinary usage of the English language cover or apply to the facts which have been proved . |
| 21 | The Regulations do away with the necessity for the ‘ artificial ’ member who exists in many private companies . |
| 22 | Do away with the brutality of the ‘ cat ’ , but keep the birch , which may hurt , which will not injure and which will bring ridicule on the person who receives it . |
| 23 | In teacher-training colleges lecturers have new theories of history that do away with the learning of ‘ facts ’ in favour of imaginative identification with more than a little colouring from the modern stereotypes that possess their own imagination . |
| 24 | Knowing what you do wrong from the start of the lesson is a very different matter from actually being able to sort of say to yourself , right I 'm going to do that this time . |
| 25 | But there were perfectly good ways of preserving food without refrigeration , which were followed even more diligently than we do nowadays in the time of the deep freeze . |
| 26 | Some regard what they do simply as a form of legitimate adult play , while others take it far more seriously and see themselves as going beyond present human limitations , journeying into a new galaxy of knowledge in a way which they find at least as exciting as the exploration of deep space . |
| 27 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 28 | But I simply want to make the the point of planning principle that you do n't as a matter of approach walk away from constrained sites and say , ah well we do n't like that because there 's some constraint , we 'll go and we 'll reallocate an another piece of land somewhere else , and er that 'll come forward more easily . |
| 29 | In the north of England they have New Year 's Day but they do n't in the south in England , they might do now . |
| 30 | " Perhaps it is most convenient to imagine you are doing all that you do here at the behest of some distant ogre . " |