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

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1 The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people .
2 His attempt to do so fostered a current of resentment that came to the surface in 1968 .
3 At least no trace of an attempt to do so has survived among the voluminous Cossack and British sources .
4 Official figures indicated that more than half the 2,900,000 electorate did not vote .
5 The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices .
6 In 1973 the government ran a considerable campaign to instruct electors how to record their votes under the system of proportional representation , but it was thought that after the experience of two proportional representation elections in 1973 the electorate did not need to be more than reminded of what was required .
7 However , the electorate did not trust the Conservatives on full employment policy , and this feeling was confirmed by the aggressive anti-socialist tenor of the election campaign , when the rallying cry was for decontrol as quickly as possible .
8 In part , this is because the aerosols from the Pinatubo volcano did not reach the Arctic stratosphere in as high quantities as feared .
9 A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert , or show cowardice , or disobey orders .
10 And while some people might use a sunscreen abroad , over 40 per cent of those who often suffered sunburn did n't use anything when holidaying in the UK despite the recent hot summers .
11 ‘ Still , the blouse and skirt do n't look too bad , d' you think ? ’
12 The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery .
13 ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’
14 The message of de Gaulle the politician was that national renewal did not have to succeed national disaster ; it could be achieved through a reform in the organization of the French state .
15 The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’
16 There is a lunatic fringe of schools that will do almost anything to gain publicity — the head in the stocks and throw the wet sponge for 10p brigade do little to enhance their personal status or that of their schools .
17 Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP .
18 ‘ Frankly , it 's amazing that Labour did n't make more of the current economic difficulties , ’ he said , expressing vigorous dissatisfaction at the intellectual content of the election campaign .
19 Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics .
20 We understand why Labour did n't win the election .
21 Despite the foundation of the small national Independent Labour Party in 1893 , Labour did not appear to present an irresistible threat .
22 It seems that the tradition of working in the woodlands in this country went into decline after the First World War , when most of the skilled labour did not return .
23 Organized labour did not drop the issue though and some more enlightened firms continued to introduce private agreements .
24 The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government .
25 But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world .
26 Alternatively , was it due to the fact that the Labour did not mount an effective campaign against its position ?
27 MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a powerful warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power .
28 MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power .
29 And Labour did not have a monopoly of CND-leaning members or policies .
30 Dalglish 's mutli-million pound crusade for a Premier League place could come off the rails if his side do not win .
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