Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That looks a bit tidier do n't it ? |
| 2 | I always think it tastes a bit weak does n't it . |
| 3 | Look a bit moth-eaten do n't they , these tomatoes ? |
| 4 | Well Pam was a bit upset did n't she ? |
| 5 | The trust that had made their intimacy possible did not exist outside it . |
| 6 | Okay you can sort those out but when we get to take aways it goes a little bit odd does n't it . |
| 7 | There are ninety nine pupils , the total staff is one hundred , of course that does not for a moment mean that er , there is one member of staff attendant on each pupil at all times , and I do n't for a moment suggest that . |
| 8 | You see , we only get the German news in this Place , and of course that does n't mean a thing ’ |
| 9 | Of course that does n't mean that she does n't leave her home to work , it just means that the home is where she visualizes herself , wherever she is … |
| 10 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 11 | But of course that does n't include the price of the essential vintage roller . |
| 12 | And er but of course that did n't last long because of course you know the story of the Jolly George , when that really stopped England 's intervention , did n't it . |
| 13 | Of course that did n't alter the fact that de Tracy had changed sides . |
| 14 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 15 | It was a word it got a bit wet did n't it ? |
| 16 | However , what has often gone unnoticed is that in most cases this does not happen and , even more interesting , in some the outcome is what has been called ‘ outstanding ’ ; that is to say , the individual turns out to be a highly competent and sometimes very creative adult . |
| 17 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 18 | In most cases this does n't matter too much as the speed of the machine can be controlled by software instead . |
| 19 | With the orang this does not appear to be the case ; rather the reverse in fact . |
| 20 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 21 | The TSR 2 did not establish a happy precedent , though the full implications still lay in the future . |
| 22 | So Ange was saying she 's , she gets a bit funny do n't she ? |
| 23 | Of course this does n't mean that any woman found drinking it will turn to stone but it is designed to appeal to the real men of the nation . |
| 24 | Of course this does n't cover everything , this simple schema — Bye-bye , Mummy , Whittingtonesque entry to London — was n't all that was going on , oh no . |
| 25 | Of course this does not mean that the technologies are not embedded in specific economic , institutional and cultural systems , or that they do not constitute specific signifying systems , with their own internal forms . |
| 26 | Of course this does not mean that we should not be careful about the metaphors which we use . |
| 27 | part some did n't trust him did they ? |
| 28 | The spare stones are in case some do n't grow . |
| 29 | Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ? |
| 30 | Goals espoused by WHO/HFA may have numbed our consciousness but for many health workers in the Philippines , despite the change in government , a health initiative becomes the front line in a struggle some do not survive . |