Example sentences of "[conj] do the [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 2 | Do you want to add anything to that Mr , or does the same point apply ? |
| 3 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
| 4 | On this definition , sexist language might not mean only expressions that exclude , insult or trivialise women , but also those that do the same thing to men . |
| 5 | The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter . |
| 6 | ( The system of local government would enjoy less power than did the former local Soviets . ) |
| 7 | A curriculum that genuinely values the practical as highly as the theoretical or academic must be geared to a public assessment system that does the same , and from which only the severely mentally handicapped , and not all of them , will need to be totally excluded . |
| 8 | In other words , rather than using a notepad and pen , you have the privilege of paying £100 for a piece of complicated electronics that does the same thing . |
| 9 | And Alan Shearer , who has shown his versatility as a striker by scoring several of his 16 goals for Blackburn from distance , ought to try and do the same for England . |
| 10 | If you ask two people to go away and do the same job with a degree of excellence , are you to get the same result at the end of the day ? |
| 11 | I wish someone would come and do the same in our house sometime ! |
| 12 | I 'd still go out and do the same tomorrow , but it makes you wonder why do we really bother because we 're not getting the backing we need . |
| 13 | She was an extremely angry , very bitter woman , who was determined to get everybody around her as angry as she could , and she succeeded , and I do n't know where she 's moved now , but I 'm sure she will go on and do the same thing , and frankly , I despair of anything being done unless there is some provision made for people such as herself , and one of her friends in particular . |
| 14 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 15 | I 've had Banville thoroughly checked out , and I know he 's stayed at two other hotels on the island and done the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | Using traditional methods ( ie. pencil and paper ) , I suppose I could easily have got the scissors out and done the same job . |
| 17 | That means actually copying their hand movements or the way they are sitting and doing the same . |
| 18 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 19 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |
| 20 | I 'd rather be , on Sundays , cutting meat , wrapping meat , packing meat , and doing the same for everybody else . |
| 21 | and doing the same |
| 22 | Versions of the traditional hornpipe danced by sailors of many nationalities are featured in many ballets because it is so descriptive of the very particular way in which seamen walk and do the many different jobs that have to be done on any kind of boat . |
| 23 | Preservatives ! ’ and do the same movements to replace the tin . |
| 24 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 25 | One might question which was the more interesting achievement — to start with nothing , as Gandhi did , and rise to power on the strength of personal reputation , or to start with everything , as Irwin did , and do the same . |
| 26 | ‘ The song is about the power of the mind , how you can take two people and do the same thing to both of them . |
| 27 | Cut the gripper strips about 40mm shorter than the width of the stair carpet so that edges wo n't show , and do the same for the underlay , which should fit from the end of each strip on the tread , over the nosing , up to the edge of the next strip on the riser . |
| 28 | If you have to share , clean the used equipment immediately it was last used , separate the needle , barrel and plunger and clean them in hot tap water and washing up liquid , remove all traces of blood , rinse the works thoroughly with clean water and do the same with any spoons etc . |
| 29 | Do n't shorten the stems , just tidy them to a clean cut , and do the same with any broken roots . |
| 30 | Or come in over Starr Hills and do the same . ’ |