Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] do " in BNC.

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1 It was a remarkable discovery on Gould 's part , given that , apart from their extraordinary beaks , many of the finches simply did not resemble finches .
2 The majority never does speak .
3 well it usually keeps quite soft on , that kitchen table , near the boiler where d' ya want them ? , sit up
4 There might be some very well-intentioned people in them , but the institutions nevertheless did discriminate .
5 Compared with the Rover 220 Turbo Coupe or even the BMW 325 coupe , the VW just does not make any sense at all — at least on paper .
6 Yolland recommended that the Board of Trade authorise the BCR to open its line for running between Stretford Bridge and Bishop 's Castle only , and the Board presumably did so .
7 Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ?
8 you pay for the privilege then do n't you ?
9 Of course , this is quite unfair , and the case probably does not even rest on that passage in your report .
10 But if that was the case where did her parents come into it ?
11 That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ?
12 Well we know we 've changed the resistance so did we make the resistance more or less ?
13 As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body .
14 He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it .
15 It was , it 's slow when you do n't have the computer just doing it on its own .
16 The computer then does the hard mathematics and produces a diagram showing broad groupings of similar material ( fig. 9.3 ) .
17 Put under this pressure and without an isolated adversary on which to concentrate its lethal strike , the snake usually does its best to beat a rapid retreat .
18 But perhaps Ratty would above all treasure the slow pace of life and the almost Latin approach to the world — taking things easy is n't a common trait in Germany , but when the ‘ Manyana ’ way of life takes hold the Germans certainly do it well !
19 The intriguing point is this : if the Germans really did land in East Anglia in 1940 , and there was an elaborate cover-up , it is surely inconceivable that Ealing would have been allowed by the censors to portray such an accurate reconstruction only two years later .
20 The project was approved at ministerial level because it had been decided that the contract either did not significantly enhance Iraq 's military capability or that it had been signed before December , 1984 .
21 The buyer still did not pay .
22 Cos I had n't had the gang then do you see , there was only two of us then .
23 Erm , the proposals there do , in fact , exceed the capital spend on new starts , and it will therefore need pruning erm , and the proposals that we suggested earlier was that , subject to any comments members may have on individual schemes that are here , and their views on them , we would propose looking at the programme in detail , and bringing it within the guideline figures that have been set , erm , and doing that with the advice of P A G before it goes on to Policy Panel and , and Policy and Resources Committee .
24 Another Dutch friend , Dr Job Baxter of Zirkzee , sent seeds of Watsonia meriana , Ixia and Cluytia pulchella from the Cape , all to bloom well at Chelsea in due course as , indeed , the Watsonia still does today .
25 My missionary vocation landed me with the task , the experience probably did more for me than for the fifty to one hundred loyal missionary supporters who attended .
26 The ergonomist will begin his investigation by the consideration of what the personnel actually do in their jobs which have emerged and been refined by practice and personal preference rather than design .
27 For a change the paddlers are ordinary people rather than white water whiz-kids and the difficulty generally does not go above grade 3 .
28 THE MEN FROM THE MINISTRY How do you run the Church of England ?
29 The harness really does take the pain out of windsurfing and allows you to stay out on the water far longer .
30 So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended .
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