Example sentences of "[coord] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
| 2 | It is well worth visiting just as a tourist or to do the five-hour walk along the bottom of the gorge . |
| 3 | There was a price agreement for a specific task , either coal-getting or doing the necessary stonework in preparation , and Trist et al. ( 1963 ) observe that management dealt with workers through the union to a far greater extent than in most industries . |
| 4 | Or it may show its need to excel by jumping obstacles better than other horses , or doing the perfect workout in the show ring or dressage arena , producing the most fantastic extended trot when shown in hand , or behaving perfectly with a beginner rider on its back . |
| 5 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 6 | Cos they were probably putting buttons on , or doing the last stitching |
| 7 | Is ‘ no ’ added to ‘ not ’ for emphasis , or do the two negatives cancel each other out ? |
| 8 | It 's almost as though he 's afraid they are going to cheat him out of something , or do the dirty on him . ’ |
| 9 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 10 | Or did the 1991 Geneva show provide the cheer we all needed ? |
| 11 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 12 | Or did the thin , eerie song come from that lopsided , blue-eyed elf sitting on top of a cotton bale and staring down at her ? |
| 13 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 14 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 15 | " Or does the mere suggestion make you want to heave ? " |
| 16 | Or does the causal level contain factors of another sort which do the real work ? |
| 17 | ‘ Or does the famous double standard apply here ? |
| 18 | Which is it — massive increases in normal basic income tax , or does the Labour party intend to reject all the spending plans with which it has conned the electorate by saying that it will engage in them ? |
| 19 | Do you want to add anything to that Mr , or does the same point apply ? |
| 20 | Do these differences arise from the local packing of cations and anions , or does the random network of chains and planes of silicate , for instance , impose the main constraint ? |
| 21 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 22 | Or does the legendary Liverpudlian personality shine through their style ? |
| 23 | Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities . |
| 24 | Nor do the home-based banks have any interest in seeing the peso collapse . |
| 25 | Nor do the new orders pouring almost daily into the UN 's kitchen end with Iraq . |
| 26 | Nor do the other attributes of incorporation suggest a basis on which a more extensive right of intervention on public interest grounds could be justified in the case of a company , than of , say , a partnership , simply in virtue of their respective legal characteristics . |
| 27 | Nor do the dozens of other Bible-believing Christians with whom I have discussed the matter . |
| 28 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 29 | Nor did the other guests seem to suspect anything . |
| 30 | Nor did the other women seem to be responding quite as she expected . |