Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If [ Fujimori ] had a script to do grievous harm to the country today , tomorrow and for years to come , this would be it , ’ said Gustavo Gorriti , a prominent Peruvian journalist , exhausted after his release from police custody . |
| 2 | Thus by overtly infringing some maxim , the speaker can force the hearer to do extensive inferencing to some set of propositions , such that if the speaker can be assumed to be conveying these then at least the over-arching cooperative principle would be sustained . |
| 3 | ‘ The brain machine is a device you use to train your mind to do certain things . |
| 4 | ‘ The brain machine is a device you use to train your mind to do certain things . |
| 5 | Fleming 's colleagues most concerned were Ronald Hare ( 1899–1986 ) , a St. Mary 's graduate with a scholarship to do bacteriological research , F. Ridley , an ophthalmologist working on lysozyme , S. R. Craddock , another research scholar working under Fleming 's direction on staphylococcal variants , and C.J. La Touche , a mycologist investigating the role of fungi in precipitating asthmatic attacks and the development of vaccines against them . |
| 6 | The question of the essay What effect do individual actors have on the course of history ? — is thus partly answered by the very terms in which it is posed . |
| 7 | What effect does agricultural support have on world prices ? |
| 8 | The mind does extraordinary things exaggerating or minimising with consummate ease . |
| 9 | And on the subject of conspiracies , what future does Swedish winger Anders Limpar have at Highbury if a 20-year-old from up the Piccadilly Line at Wood Green is now ahead of him in the pecking order ? |
| 10 | She affiliated herself more with the opposing camp of Impressionism — when a female caller at her studio who hoped to have a portrait done told Walker that she was regarded as having a ‘ Burne-Jones-face ’ Walker replied , ‘ what a damn sickly sort of face to have ! ’ 20 However , despite this aversion and the fact that her own women do not resemble the Pre-Raphaelite type , in her attitude towards her women there is much that is similar . |
| 11 | NCR SIGNS INDEPENDENCE TO DO TOP ENDS FOR SUN , IBM … |
| 12 | ‘ You dog me and Rosie like a shadow whenever we want some peace to do bad things to one another , and this scam 's a team affair to start with . |
| 13 | Although ‘ hackers ’ are interested in writing very clever programs or manipulating the machine to do unusual things , they are generally oblivious to any concept ‘ quality ’ in their programs , particularly as judged by another person . |
| 14 | Gerry tells me he plans surprise items and human interest stories , as well as making use of the UTV satellite uplink vehicle to do local interviews live in the show . |
| 15 | Few can afford the time and cost of building a new stone wall today , but the principles of dry stone walling , clearly outlined in Rainsford-Hannay 's book Dry Stone Walling , are straightforward and you can easily acquire enough skill to do effective repairs . |
| 16 | There is a pleasantly refurbished village hall , centre of a thriving carpet bowl club and many other activities , a newly renovated pub doing good business with a well supported darts club , and smaller church and chapel halls for more intimate meetings . |
| 17 | I 'm sure , I thought the one down the bottom did Green Shield , or is that something else they do ? |
| 18 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 19 | Do n't forget I 've planned a little job to do outside working hours . ’ |
| 20 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 21 | There is no reluctance to do arduous tasks ; struggling up to the foredeck to change a sail on a cold , sleety December day is not a problem . |
| 22 | Recently 771 conscripts publicly announced their refusal to do military service as part of a national defiance campaign by the anti-apartheid community . |
| 23 | Recently 771 conscripts publicly announced their refusal to do military service as part of a national defiance campaign by the anti-apartheid community . |
| 24 | Refusal to do military service was rife , especially among non-Russian nationalities . |
| 25 | Uniforum has tapped The Kaminer Group to do public relations for its annual Unix show , a wily move considering its boss Dave Kaminer used to be vice president of public relations for show organiser The Interface Group , the mighty Comdex engine . |
| 26 | At supper there is more likely to be a simple salad than a roast on the menu , which has the advantage of leaving you with more room to do proper justice to the pudding . |
| 27 | He still has n't had it through , cos we were yes , yes , big improvement , it was just that we were arranging visiting and things like that and er whether there 's any need to do certain things , so er , but he 's still on a , he 's come off all his painkillers his morphine 's out completely , that 's fantastic is n't it ? |
| 28 | And , wonder of wonders , soon after I arrived word came from Group that there was no longer any need to do hourly observations at night . |
| 29 | There was less violence , the ‘ appels ’ were not so severe , and we spent much more time in the classroom doing theoretical work for our exams . |
| 30 | There were three ice cream shops and a chip shop doing brisk trade all the time . |