Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb base] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I I do differ with that in some respects , in that er until we 've arranged the agenda we 're not always sure whether there will be specifically highway matters , er and er I must confess , although not on the agenda very often , highway matters are things that that that that do get commented on , er but er none the less , it 's just the principle , I mean er it 's a bit difficult to start saying , well do we send it because we have particular things , er or or |
| 2 | But to celebrate the unacknowledged commitment of time , talent and energy that some do make , Esquire and Principles Menswear have named these four men , ‘ Men of Principles ’ . |
| 3 | Existing British evidence on widowhood seems to support that conclusion , reporting a tendency for many widows gradually to lose contact with their husband 's relatives , although some do stay close ( Marris , 1958 ) . |
| 4 | In the main these convert the signals provided on the expansion connector into the industry standard Centronics parallel interface although some do offer serial as an alternative . |
| 5 | No single world currency exists ( or is ever likely to exist ) to facilitate trade and financial flows although some do perform monetary functions outside their national boundaries . |
| 6 | Thermal linings with a soft , fluffy coating on the inside provide excellent insulation although some do have a rather unattractive rubber-like appearance on the outside . |
| 7 | An exception to this general conclusion concerns economic support where class is important because , even using the rather crude categories of middle class and working class , we can see that these do represent different levels of access to financial and other economic resources . |
| 8 | Riots , staff unrest , the malaise in the probation service and the political problems caused by the penal system are not the direct results of a high prison population or a lack of money or of decent prison buildings ( although these do contribute to the crisis ) , but result from what people believe and how they feel — from the moral reactions of people within and outside the penal system to the material situation . |
| 9 | Western diplomats in Luanda scoff at that figure , though they admit that many do need help . |
| 10 | Indeed the whole concept of maximizing household resources tends to imply that all do benefit , although it can be very difficult to know the precise distribution of resources in such households . |
| 11 | But if Labour do win they will make the usual hash of things and then the whole merry-go-round will begin again . |
| 12 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | LEDs alongside certain buttons indicate which mode of operation has been selected and these do help in keeping tabs on what 's happening during programming . |
| 14 | There is no question that inequalities in health between rich and poor do exist and that poverty causes ill-health . |
| 15 | In fact women are clearly already making this kind of calculation for themselves and many do decide they would rather run the gauntlet of contraceptive side effects than risk a pregnancy and cope with the consequences . |
| 16 | Winds of force 5 and more do blow , but not often enough to advertise this as a big wind resort . |
| 17 | One of the advantages of grooming your dog outside is that if any do leap off at this stage , then they are not likely to cause problems in the home . |
| 18 | And for the rest , if any do challenge me , and I can not but defend myself , you shall hold me justified and excused . |
| 19 | If Aethelwald and Aethelred do represent a revival of Deiran royalty , it may be no coincidence that Archbishop Aethelberht ( though at an unspecified date ) constructed a new great altar in the minster at York on the spot where Eadwine was said to have been baptized . |
| 20 | It 's difficult to evaluate how successful such co-ops are but many do seem to gain work on a fairly reasonable basis for their members , and they are certainly worth considering . |
| 21 | In freshwater , with little dissolved minerals compared to the sea , molluscs need to be very efficient at calcium uptake , and while some do live successfully in soft water , others are restricted to hard water . |
| 22 | most are complete though some do have 1 or 2 pieces missing £10 the lot . |
| 23 | most are complete though some do have 1 or 2 pieces missing £10 the lot . |
| 24 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 25 | Similarly , those insects possessing an ability to see things through infrared or heat emissions are in an interesting position , for while we humans perceive airborne molecular vibrations as sound , such a creature would have no need of ears , though many do possess excellent hearing , for it may be able to see some airborne vibrations as molecular agitations or patterns . |
| 26 | In such cases the extended family begins to look quite complex , but it is still essentially based upon the original pair , and when young do become fully adult they are driven away or wander off on their own to form separate pairs . |