Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |
| 2 | Stasis and then sudden change , which for reasons which do slightly defeat me , are called punctuational changes . |
| 3 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 4 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 5 | The male does sometimes mate with one of the young female helpers but this , for reasons we do not understand , never seems to result in pregnancy . |
| 6 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 7 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 8 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 9 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 10 | In fact I am more concerned about authorities which do not place children and decide by using no criteria beyond barely-concealed and crude financial ones . |
| 11 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
| 12 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 13 | In making recommendations , to take into account the need not to increase calls on teachers ' and pupils ' time for activities which do not directly promote learning , and to limit costs . |
| 14 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 15 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 16 | Similarly , we may argue that Campbell 's political strategy is founded in a view of the realities of international relations between states which does not , for example , reflect the fact that the usual benefits of legal process are not immediately obvious to individual states , particularly where nuclear weapons are concerned . |
| 17 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
| 18 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 19 | For homeowners who do not have a south facing garden , there are other equally favourable aspects for the siting of conservatories . |
| 20 | British Equestrian Insurance Brokers Limited have had policies available for 15 years for riders who do not own horses as well as those who do . |
| 21 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 22 | It is a personal agreement between shareholders which does not fetter the company in the exercise of its statutory powers . |
| 23 | For instance what do the colours at the very top of the page mean ? |
| 24 | I 've no idea yet , really what , I mean , you know , for instance I do n't know how much ratio staff to patients they need , therefore you ca n't really , you know , follow that up because you 've no idea what the costs themselves could be . |
| 25 | Some languages have case inflections which indicate the relationship between the elements in a clause , for instance who does what to whom . |
| 26 | Perhaps nothing , but as she waited for money which did n't seem to be coming , it was fairly certain the crash was going to mean something . |
| 27 | it 's between bit I do n't like |
| 28 | We saw earlier did n't we when we talked about , about future who did that ? |
| 29 | Weight for weight it does not compare favourably with foods like cereals and nuts in fibre content , although it works out well when you take into account how much fibre you get for a modest number of calories . |
| 30 | I 'm getting the blame for crime I did n't commit . |