Example sentences of "[noun] do [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the drinks industry doing to combat alcohol abuse ? |
| 2 | It has recently been suggested that some ancient solders did contain cadmium , using the cadmium sulphide mineral greenockite as source of the metal . |
| 3 | ‘ In contrast , Labour did send people , including their deputy leader , to Democrat headquarters . |
| 4 | In contrast , Labour did gain ground among social groups AB ( up from 14 per cent in 1987 to 20 per cent in 1992 ) , C1 ( up from 21 to 25 per cent ) and in the supposedly crucial ‘ swing ’ group , the C2s , among whom a 40:36 split in favour of the Conservatives was turned into a 41:38 Labour advantage — still not an election-winning gain , but more in line with the sort of swing that Labour needed , but failed to achieve , among the working class as a whole . |
| 5 | The powerful London Society of Compositors managed to see that women were on the whole excluded from the capital , even if some employers who had moved to the provinces did employ women . |
| 6 | If a B T employee did disclose information against all their training and against the rules that we 've got in place in B T , then we would obviously take that very seriously indeed and erm dismissal would no doubt follow if it was found that th the person had disclosed information . |
| 7 | As pointed out earlier , some schools did visit project schools in order to gain insights of use in planning their own proposals , and some were subsequently visited by yet other schools . |
| 8 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 9 | Although wood is not easy to obtain and certainly not cheap , many schools do find ways of obtaining quantities of off-cuts of softwood suitable for the children to use . |
| 10 | Some training schools do apply age limits , which contributes to the common misconceptions about age restriction . |
| 11 | Well , as a matter of fact , numerous species of bats do produce cries that sweep down , usually through about an octave , during each cry . |
| 12 | The Danish infusion did increase yields but had an adverse effect on food conversion rates , longevity and hardiness so that the experiment waned . |
| 13 | Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives . |
| 14 | The third topic of interest concerned what LEAs did to help schools promote preparation for working life . |
| 15 | ‘ There you are : Geminis do affect Aquarians . ’ |
| 16 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 17 | Metropolitan Police Motion made , and Question proposed , That the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis do take care that during the Session of Parliament the passages through the streets leading to this House be kept free and open and that no obstruction be permitted to hinder the passage of Members to and from this House , and that no disorder be allowed in Westminster Hall , or in the passages leading to this House , during the Sitting of Parliament , and that there be no annoyance therein or thereabouts ; and that the Serjeant at Arms attending this House do communicate this Order to the Commissioner aforesaid . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , headteachers did express worries about condoned absence . |
| 19 | Even if the PLO did waive refugee rights , it is questionable whether it would be able to maintain such a waiver . |
| 20 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 21 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 22 | Well I felt that although , obviously , computers do do arithmetic and they do it very quickly , to me probably the more important aspects are the fact that one has a visual display on the computer screen which can convey information without numbers in a more rapid way to most people . |
| 23 | The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public . |
| 24 | The tyre industry did attract bids ( including that of Firestone by Bridgestone , a Japanese firm ) , but that is true the world over ( note Pirelli 's bid for Continental in Germany ) . |
| 25 | Realising these advantages assumes that DHAs do have bargaining leverage over providers , that they do have choices and that they are given the freedom to make them . |
| 26 | Although Wilfrid did evangelise Mercia and founded a site at Oundle in Northamptonshire , it is probable the reference is to another Stamford , as the name was not uncommon and Alchfrith is unlikely to have owned any land in this area . |
| 27 | But individual speakers do have control over their own pitch , and may choose to speak with a higher than normal pitch ; this is something which is potentially of linguistic significance . |
| 28 | Without information on what motivates consumers now , they can not make reliable models of how things might change — for example , if labels did stress efficiency and savings . |
| 29 | Rather , it is a situation in which choice and action do take place , and in which the victim acts under her own perception and judgement . |
| 30 | Conversely , there are times when readers do have rights to affect written discourse . |