Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mixture will leave young cricket-lovers wondering whether they want to ascend to the spotlight or make do safely with their humdrum jobs . |
| 2 | At least one high-readiness multinational corps is expected to be a rapid-deployment force that could be sent from central Europe to keep the peace or do battle elsewhere . |
| 3 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 4 | During July , the entire area paid lasting tribute to an aircraft that helped open up not just this town , but hundreds like it all over Canada . |
| 5 | I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading . |
| 6 | However , not all languages have a grammatical category of number , and those that do do not necessarily view countability in the same terms . |
| 7 | It appears that the only people that do want BST are the pharmaceutical companies who have genetically engineered the hormone and stand to make extra profits from its introduction . |
| 8 | Nor all Discus do this , but those that do make very good parents . |
| 9 | The two routes that do stand out are Seb Grieves ' Clippety Clop , Clippety Clop at Ramshaw and Sean Myles ' Captain Invincible in the Burbage Quarries . |
| 10 | There are , however moments that do stand out . |
| 11 | Although aware of the images that do sell well , particularly as a woman artist , often painting flowers and other ‘ feminine ’ subject matter , Jacqueline is keen to seek a balance between her own personal politics and her work . |
| 12 | Those that do survive often do poorly as brain tissue is often damaged . |
| 13 | Secondly , those that do put up barriers to segregate the ‘ junkie ’ from other customers . |
| 14 | ‘ My way of life/Is fallen into the sere , the yellow leaf' , says Macbeth ; ‘ why do you start , and seem to fear/Things that do sound so fair ? ’ asks Banquo ; ‘ I see thee still ’ , says Macbeth to the imaginary dagger , ‘ And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood , /Which was not so before . ’ |
| 15 | It rejects the proposal that accountants should not be allowed to report suspicions to senior management before reporting to the appropriate external authorities , and stresses that those that do report externally must be protected from any possible claims of breach of confidentiality . |
| 16 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 17 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 18 | I think everyone 's got their own ways of dealing with them , you know certainly some people ignore them , you know I prefer to ignore them rather than taunt them , er possibly because I was n't really friendly with any of them that did go back , I think people who were close friends have found it very awkward and I know even now they 're probably looking daggers at each other you know , that sort of thing . |
| 19 | Those that did turn up enjoyed the jovial atmosphere and frantic dancing ensued , except at the home-town concert in Middleton . |
| 20 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 21 | Those that did write back stated that they were very happy with their present designs . |
| 22 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 23 | OVER THE past 20 years the West Indian pace attack has systematically demolished every batting line-up that dared turn up at the same ground . |
| 24 | Nor does sabotage necessarily break rules in any simple sense . |
| 25 | Taking the election results as his guide , he should decide on a step-by-step approach , building on the fragile trust that does exist rather than risk another failure . |
| 26 | But in History , of course , what is called , other' is an alterity that does settle down , that falls into the dialectical circle . |
| 27 | Dumps are increasingly required to have special liners to stop moisture from seeping in ; to collect and treat any liquid that does get in ; to monitor the waste that is added to a dump ; and to provide for shutting down the landfill at the end of its life and cleaning up any environmental damage that may come later . |
| 28 | Any farm work that does come in can be a sort of bonus . ’ |
| 29 | Most biological systems have feedback mechanisms that help smooth out the little fluctuations that life throws at them . |
| 30 | Many karateka get this wrong and make use only of the arm action . |