Example sentences of "[conj] do the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 6 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 7 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 8 | " Or does the mere suggestion make you want to heave ? " |
| 9 | Or does the causal level contain factors of another sort which do the real work ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 13 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 14 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 15 | Nor do the home-based banks have any interest in seeing the peso collapse . |
| 16 | Nor do the new orders pouring almost daily into the UN 's kitchen end with Iraq . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I trudged along and paid the usual fee to the port collector , then presented myself to a Vadinamian Warden , one of the high officials overseeing the Intelloids that do the real work . |
| 19 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 20 | Nor did the other women seem to be responding quite as she expected . |
| 21 | Nor did the other guests seem to suspect anything . |
| 22 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |
| 23 | Nor did the post-war trends happen at the same rate in every medium . |
| 24 | Nor did the Celtic Church repudiate Ireland 's own pre-Christian cultural heritage . |
| 25 | Nor did the classical elitists provide easily testable propositions , or systematic empirical refutations of Marxism compatible with rigorous positivism . |
| 26 | The heavens did n't weep above his head , nor did the fat-cheeked clouds assume sneers of calamity . |
| 27 | Nor did the widespread destruction of the vestments , stained glass , and crucifixes , which many Calvinists found so objectionable , meet with the approval of Elizabeth herself . |
| 28 | Nor did the false name Hess had given . |
| 29 | It was given no powers in relation to those who are not so qualified , nor did the Medical Act 1858 prohibit the practice of medicine without registration . |
| 30 | We 're getting mail back from Winix America Inc , the Beaverton , Oregon start-up that did the combined Windows 3. x/Unix networking software for the Norwegian government and then Americanised it ( UX No 380 ) , marked ‘ out of business . ’ |