Example sentences of "does [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it does badly need shoring up . |
| 2 | When a baseball team does badly , so do domestic sales of its products . |
| 3 | If the People 's Party does badly in the election it may well reject the result . |
| 4 | The owners consider offering the manager ( suppose like A in figure 3.1 ) , an income of £0 if the firm does badly , £1000 if it does well , " contract 1 " , pocketing the rest themselves . |
| 5 | If the firm does badly they can leave , but this will necessitate a loss of human capital assuming they have accumulated some firm-specific skills . |
| 6 | Alternatively , if groups are allowed to make decisions without their manager 's seal of approval , then accountability as such will suffer , for if a group does badly , the group is never fired ( and it would be shocking if it were ) . |
| 7 | But what if John Major 's party does badly in the European and council elections next year . |
| 8 | With examples like these , it is easy to go further and accept , for the purposes of the story , that even Gandalf 's good intentions would not resist the Ring , and that Galadriel too does right to refuse it at I , 381 . |
| 9 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 10 | Ahmad , known as Ibn al-Wafa " ( Ibn Vefa : d. 896/1491 ) , visited Molla Husrev every day but did not visit Molla Gurani the latter said : " He does right in that , for Molla Husrev is a scholar noted for knowledge and works the visiting of whom is necessary . |
| 11 | Right , well what did that , question one what charity d , what the charity does right . |
| 12 | Yes , mm mm does right right I 'm sorry about that , yes |
| 13 | These barriers have reached towering heights in the twentieth century , although information does slowly trickle through them . |
| 14 | Still , the fact that Lord Heptonstall had the use of his all night does rather direct the spotlight on him . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I say , Inspector , that does rather leave every avenue explored , does n't it ? ’ |
| 16 | Being told when you have just turned fifty that it 's time you retired does rather hurt . |
| 17 | WHERE it matters — on the field — the north of England does rather well , successfully managing widely dispersed resources and usually playing winning rugby . |
| 18 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 19 | 291 made off 366 balls , with 38 fours , in just under eight hours does rather speak for itself . |
| 20 | And one does rather feel that the director was wearing a black polo-neck throughout the film 's shooting . |
| 21 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 22 | It does rather spoil the fun , though , when the spoof is too obvious — the one in the 31 March issue was so obviously naive and reckless in its content that it could not possibly have fooled anybody with even a grain of sense . |
| 23 | Wealth : Pater 's got loads but Blandford tends to forget that when one buys things ( like £2,699 pianos ) one does rather have to pay for them |
| 24 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 25 | A I tend to agree with you — it does rather seem as though you need several dozen supplements to keep a successful marine aquarium . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , yes , it does rather . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't mind more work , ’ Anna said , ‘ but I have to confess that my heart does rather quail and fail at the thought of three times as much French jacquard-weaving machinery specifications to translate as I have already . ’ |
| 28 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 29 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |
| 30 | He does rather qualify his view where he later considers that the present case is not ‘ an appropriate case for seeking to advance the frontiers of the law of negligence ’ , and he seeks to confine the decision to its own particular facts . |