Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the unwanted takeover bid for Imperial did materialise , as had been rumoured , from Hanson Trust ( subsequently renamed Hanson ) , the largest conglomerate company in the UK , which also had substantial interests in the US . |
| 2 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 3 | Miraculously much of this does get done , but there are few teachers , if any , who can walk out the gates at four o'clock , knowing they are up-to-date , |
| 4 | Yet the treaty of 1259 did introduce a momentous change into the relations between the two powers . |
| 5 | It may be true that concepts and factual propositions are subject to change and have no consequences until engaged by someone 's mind , but it is also true that some transmission of knowing does take place , and that a facility with , or mastery of , those concepts and propositions is necessary to further development . |
| 6 | Despite this difference , the plot of 587 does help illuminate the crisis of two years before . |
| 7 | But once the first of these did arrive , Edward Plantagenet lost no time in testing their quality . |
| 8 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 9 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 10 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 11 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |
| 12 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 13 | Of course a scheme like this does incur considerable costs , but it will be for the benefit of the town and help to preserve a record of a popular part of Bishop 's Castle 's history , while we still have people who remember ‘ our ’ railway and travelled on it . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , incidents like this do put your blood pressure up . |
| 15 | THREE INTO ONE DOES GO |
| 16 | But the two communications from " Ella , typelifter " in 1886 do sound authentic and throw a little light on what women may have thought about the central issues here : their being employed as cheap labour and the question of skill . |
| 17 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 18 | It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world . |
| 19 | Although glasses in general do have a definite local structure their overall structure is disordered . |
| 20 | Existence is not a " property of concepts " ( qua functions ) ; although ontological claims in general do entail claims about concepts . |
| 21 | Hotels in particular do require special attention . |
| 22 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 23 | Joint studies in 1953 did produce agreement that the Zagros mountains ( in Iran ) provided the best line of defence given appropriate support on the flanks from Iraq to Pakistan . |
| 24 | Turning to company data , the fact that five leading US investment banks had post tax returns on average equity of 26% in 1982 does suggest high profitability ( Table 5.11 ) . |
| 25 | There 's other types of music that I listen to that do make my hair stand on end and they do n't have a single guitar in them ! |
| 26 | Of course , the actual initiative to this does come from the district so the primary source of information at consultation should actually be through them before we get asked to approve it . |
| 27 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 28 | Ami Pro 3.0 does have a word count facility — it is in the Doc Info box accessed via the file menu and so my only complaint is that it entails a four stage process — select File , Select Doc Info , select Update and select OK or cancel to return to your document . |
| 29 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 30 | The last ( held by Florence Nightingale and Charles Kingsley , to name only two ) was for a time more popular than the first ; and although to some extent the preventive measures suggested by each did overlap , their priorities were somewhat different . |