Example sentences of "[art] [adj] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paper , and parchment before it , have a long shelf life although acid paper used in abundance after the 1830s did contain the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 2 | But the English do have a different culture . |
| 3 | The English did try rushing tactics , sending dismounted men to reach the walls by sheer weight of numbers . |
| 4 | Nigel once remarked that if the meek do inherit the earth , I 'll be lucky to get a window box ! |
| 5 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 6 | He assured Benn that the French were not going to let themselves be tied by COCOM : ‘ Frankly , the French do promise integrated circuits and the dates and deliveries are laid down . ’ |
| 7 | And fashions of the eighteen-forty did rely quite a lot on very close fitting garments , so I do n't , I think that 's the reason why they were n't more popular and did n't develop faster than they did . |
| 8 | Four out of the six do maintain at least one library in a business division . |
| 9 | The one area which the Rome Treaty had ignored , but where the Six did create a common policy , was in agriculture . |
| 10 | This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation . |
| 11 | It follows that , if the Japanese do incorporate imputed interest charges , they are obviously trying to assess whether the cash inflows are sufficient to meet all claims upon them , including the yields required by shareholders . |
| 12 | This provision , it is assumed , was omitted because under ss.15-16 the accused does act " with a view to gain " . |
| 13 | ‘ Why I 'm proof the impossible does happen ’ |
| 14 | Some of the devout did come in ; a mother and child , an old woman , and a dusty cloaked Franciscan . |
| 15 | But if the worst did happen , the necessary conditions for a depression — a dramatic collapse of economic confidence , and the inability of governments to restore it — might well be met . |
| 16 | With Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard cover you 'll have the security of knowing that if the worst did happen , at least you can be financially prepared . |
| 17 | With Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard cover you 'll have the security of knowing that if the worst did happen , at least you would be financially prepared . |
| 18 | After all , he told himself , if the worst did happen and she conceived a child , they could advance the wedding . |
| 19 | Now I think that the Good did say oh well there is a law commission report expected , but I think that you know the Good should address somewhere tha that problem of trust law and regulation should and then I did in fact on going through the report and er you know and also your own reports erm there 's the one about designation of assets you know , which I think was a very good recommendation of yours , I think the actual area of responsibilities and the wider role of actuaries was important . |
| 20 | The implication is that poverty is due to lack of involvement with successful capitalist enterprise and , though a minority of the poor do become successful entrepreneurs by building up small businesses from street selling , the vast majority are poor because they are excluded from the modern economy . |
| 21 | Then Grandma would raise her hands in mock horror : ‘ How the poor do live ! ’ |
| 22 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Er , I agree with them that the elderly do have a bad deal , but if e , if somebody 's got to take money off well surely sho , the government should be taking a cut ten to twenty percent off of their damned wages ! |
| 24 | Obviously the tones are sharper without DBX but the 238S does seem to generate quite a lot of noise on its own . |
| 25 | Even when the latter does raise religious matters , he seems to deal with them from a different perspective than that of the ascetic theology of Faustus or the spiritual philosophy of another great writer and friend , Claudianus Mamertus . |
| 26 | The latter did lead to the establishment of classes for deaf children , but because the provision of this education was not compulsory , many local school boards evaded their responsibilities and pleaded poverty . |
| 27 | Cells carrying RYR3 were insensitive to caffeine and ryanodine but the latter did abolish the effects of bradykinin , suggesting that RYR3 and IP 3 R are co-localized . |
| 28 | Where the latter did keep shop , he might also double up as the local undertaker , as was the case in Essex between 1770–88 at Great Clacton , Thorpe , Toppesfield and Weeley , whilst the London precedent of upholders furnishing funerals ( in addition to their established role of auctioneers and general tradesmen ) was evident at Chelmsford and Halstead . |
| 29 | ‘ I had periods , ’ though upon reflection , the bleeding does seem mean and scarce , and I can not exactly remember my last period . |
| 30 | The problem of the Hegelian model , particularly of a historicism which presupposes a governing structure of self-realization in all historical process , is by no means confined to post-war French Marxism , but the dominance of Hegelian Marxism from the thirties to the fifties does explain the particular context for the French poststructuralist assault . |