Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 These have little in common with one another , but they do illustrate particular facets of ( potential ) competitive market failure .
32 But they do have other pressures : to get a well-paid job , for instance .
33 These three kinds of explanation , each of which will be explored in this chapter , are not mutually exclusive , but they do have different theoretical and policy implications .
34 Not only that but they do have different ways of achieving their maximum personal utility .
35 It is very easy to take other people for granted and not to work on our relationships , but they do need continuous attention .
36 As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame .
37 As these young people were already disturbed these factors can not be claimed to have predated disturbed behaviour , but they did exist prior to the appearance of psychotic-like disorders .
38 The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel .
39 v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra .
40 Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands .
41 Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure .
42 The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children .
43 Hospital outpatient clinics are better : many people attend regularly , precisely because they do have chronic illness and are therefore likely to be disabled .
44 Restless legs , and it sums it up , because they do get restless .
45 The evidence from European countries of attempts to implement these kinds of arrangements tends to support the view that while they help ease labour-management tensions they slow down decision-making and reduce management flexibility .
46 When they do become ill the John Warin ward in Oxford is there for them at every stage .
47 When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation .
48 In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s .
49 When they did get good they 'd be one of the biggest bands in the world , the Fish predicted .
50 Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ .
51 Whatever ensued , the United Company of Undertakers did not receive livery status , though they did excite sufficient interest to merit a sarcastic caricature from William Hogarth entitled ‘ The Company of Undertakers ’ , and with the motto ‘ Et Plurima Mortis Imago ’ — ‘ The Very Picture of Death ’ .
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