Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] does [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 2 | He is annoyed that she does little cleaning and that the burden of getting Keith and Amy up and breakfasted is always his responsibility . |
| 3 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 4 | But it may be that what we do is is as you say that we Does that guidance thing give general broad headings ? |
| 5 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
| 6 | A pushchair for the smallest one , a bag of shopping , a handbag which carries more in the way of pins , wipes and sweets as bribes than it does personal possessions . |
| 7 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 8 | paper about that Robin Reliant and he 's done it all up and it does hundred mile an hour ! |
| 9 | An individual is not , by reason of having information relating to any particular transaction , prohibited by sections 1(2) , ( 4 ) ( b ) , ( 5 ) , or ( 6 ) from dealing on a recognised stock exchange and by s.1(7) and 1(8) from counselling , procuring , or communicating that information , if he does that thing in order to facilitate the completion or carrying out of the transaction . |
| 10 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ And what does good-for-nothing Sunil do for a living ? ’ |
| 12 | And what does two quarters come to ? |
| 13 | And what does this bit say ? |
| 14 | But she does ginger tea . |
| 15 | ‘ Foolish of her perhaps , but one does these things in the grip of passion . |
| 16 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 17 | What do I 'm sorry but what does chief man ? |
| 18 | No but what does chief mean ? |
| 19 | They can arrest me , they can do anything they want … but what does this man ( Noriega ) want ? |
| 20 | But what does this distinction mean ? |
| 21 | ‘ Thoo 's walked 'ome from chapel together every Sunday for a couple o' years and now , when 'e does t'decent thing and asks me for thi 'and , thoo 's refusing . ’ |
| 22 | When he does this property will pass . |
| 23 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |
| 24 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 25 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 26 | Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us . |
| 27 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 28 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 29 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 30 | Never before , and probably not for a very long time again will it be possible to recreate such an exhibition , containing as it does important paintings from major Western and Russian museums and private collections , as well as outstanding works from circa fifty provincial and specialised museums in the former Soviet Union . |