Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun pl] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the point of this short section has been to establish that where the jurists did face similar problems in coping with defective trust dispositions , they proceeded in very much the same way as they had done with legacies . |
| 2 | Where the reformers did start to understand , they perceived that those aspirations were to something much more even than that complete political democracy which required no property qualification ; and they did not like the perception . |
| 3 | As one graduate who is now living and working in the States , where the universities do award impressive diplomas for display , I would enjoy having a diploma from the University of Nottingham hanging on my wall . |
| 4 | A villainous raid upon the Stockade where the men do lie and even upon ourselves where we dwell at Belmont would have robbed us of all we have assured thus far by the Grace of God . |
| 5 | Since it is now pretty clear that the Americans do intend to stay on , probably setting up a base in Bahrain , the chances of Iran joining a co-operative policing system in the near future are remote . |
| 6 | We know it would have been possible to have left the switch alone but — given a bit of forward planning and some wire — to have completed an ad hoc electrical circuit so that the wipers did start to work , just as and when they did . |
| 7 | This interpretation makes it quite clear that the disposition in the will has failed , and that it is only thanks to the trust clause that the nurses do obtain this additional income . |
| 8 | It seemed that both incomers and Shetlanders presumed that the researchers did have a clearcut image of conflict in the area and that they were just fiddling about trying to show it , rather than attempting to do something about it ( e.g. putting the incomers somewhere else , helping out the incomers for once , etc . ) . |
| 9 | Should the local planning authority determine that the proposals do constitute or involve development , it has to inform the applicant of grounds on which it has reached this decision and also his rights of appeal . |
| 10 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 11 | Maxwell told New Scientist that the sluices do need remedial work to make them safe . |
| 12 | On August 13th 1803 it was ordered that ‘ a hole be dug at a proper distance from the house and that the matron be directed to see that the servants do empty all the pails from the house into the said hole until the privies etc. , shall be built out of doors ’ . |
| 13 | You will notice that the comments do pay attention to spelling , but that the main purpose of the response is to show the pupil that he has achieved what he set out to do , that is , to write it like a court report , and to include the main information from the story . |
| 14 | Senator Jesse Helms , the arch-conservative North Carolinian Republican , says he was told by the CIA , as well as sources within Panama , that the rebels did offer to surrender General Noriega to the US . |
| 15 | Suppose a judge then announces , in the style of law as integrity , that the precedents do establish a right to damages because that reading of the precedents makes them in retrospect morally sounder . |
| 16 | In business the legal presumption is that the parties do intend to make a valid contract . |
| 17 | One school , led by S. E. Finer , claims that the parties do make a difference and that , because parties have become more partisan , this is regrettable . |
| 18 | Vercingetorix , Boudicca and a few Druids are allowed to remind the schoolboys of the European community that the Celts did exist in the age of the Romans . |
| 19 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 20 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 21 | We know that the eye-spots do startle them because of a series of careful field-tests . |
| 22 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |
| 23 | It is argued in this study that although the courts did matter , they often failed to operate in the ways intended by British policy-makers . |
| 24 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 25 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 26 | Despite the assurances of the prosecuting counsel , the next day the headlines certainly gave a different picture , although the newspapers do make it clear that it is the rapist 's account — Zoe stripped as we talked , claims rapist ( Daily Mail ) ; RAPIST SAYS VICTIM ZOE STRIPPED OFF ( Star ) . |
| 27 | The bill passed what was now a Whig-dominated Commons , although the Tories did try to introduce an amendment to make the foreigners take the sacrament in accordance with the rites of the Church of England , and when the Tories gained power after the 1710 General Election they repealed the Act . |
| 28 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 29 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 30 | If the Greeks do get their economy under control , they still have to do something about their politics . |