Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 2 | ‘ I know Nell better than they do ! |
| 3 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 4 | Even schoolchildren get a week less than they do . |
| 5 | Erm sh because apparently if they do go in an office , they 'll find these are far slower than anything else they would ever work on , |
| 6 | But A&R people do not stay A&R people for very long if they do n't have an eye on both money and art simultaneously . |
| 7 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 8 | Erm so if they do come down , or when they do come down , I think it it will benefit the area , as long as something better is repl is there to replace them . |
| 9 | Erm so if they do something with , with windows that makes them actually the , the open way they can break in is to break all the glass out , and the way you would do that is to fit a window lock . |
| 10 | So if they do n't have sufficient dwellings to meet the requirements , two things and I would expect them both two things , would happen . |
| 11 | Erm yeah so say all you need is just access to that field so if they do change you can just |
| 12 | So if they do n't act , they 've had it , but , if they wrote and asked quick then |
| 13 | And it 's not , you know , it 's not really much chemistry in it , especially if they do n't ask you f for this er equation but they just give it to you . |
| 14 | ‘ Many families are struggling on , perhaps because they do n't want to consider residential care or because the right sort of care is n't available , ’ said Bill Barker . |
| 15 | The results of the clarification request analysis summarized in Table 4.3 show that although the younger children are asking for more straightforward requests for repetition than the other age groups ( perhaps because they do not attend as well as the other subjects ) , there are no significant differences in the other categories . |
| 16 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 17 | I went in alone because they do n't know you . |
| 18 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 19 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 20 | It 's fairy story nonsense , the very idea of their existence in these days when people are dying daily because they do n't have enough money to operate one radiator in the house , to me , is immoral . |
| 21 | They should n't be worn all day long because they do n't provide the support young feet need . |
| 22 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 23 | Gold ( 1958 ) suggests that the researcher may be : ( a ) a complete participant , concealing his true identity and intentions from the group , and living entirely as they do ; or ( b ) a participant-as-observer , actively involved in the group , but they know the researcher is not really one of them ; or ( c ) an observer-as-participant , a less common mode , usually involving a brief visit with limited participation . |
| 24 | The patriarchal values of the countryside seem unthreatening by contrast , much as they do in Francesco Rosi 's film Three brothers , in which a similar transaction between city and countryside is followed through . |
| 25 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |
| 26 | But other sorts of drink may be advertised , so long as they do not link consumption to social or sexual success — thus eliminating the predictable drink-this-and-score line . |
| 27 | We enjoy mysteries , so long as they do not threaten our person . |
| 28 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 29 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 30 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |