Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Direct experience does however seem to have convinced the most senior teachers in Oxfordshire of its professionalism and potency , whereas in Solihull the most senior were the least convinced . |
| 2 | Risky investments do usually have higher yields , and do therefore pay more direct tax than less risky investments . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most striking have been the experiments that show that the presence of the neutral weak interaction in addition to the electromagnetic interaction does indeed lead to a parity violation in electron proton scattering and in certain transitions in heavy atoms . |
| 4 | In what follows I shall claim that postmodern cultural forms do indeed signify , only that they signify differently . |
| 5 | The chorus of primitive tragedy did indeed have such a basis . |
| 6 | As might be supposed , West German parties do indeed use their regional lists to promote the election of their most favoured candidates . |
| 7 | Since dictionaries are in fact prescriptive , whatever they may claim , there is no point in their including non-prestige usages and words like fuck which everyone knows the meaning of ( though the Oxford English Dictionary did finally capitulate and put fuck in , as a gesture toward inclusive scholarship ) . |
| 8 | if you wish to use NOT to reverse the action of an IF statement it is important to ensure that the testable condition does actually evaluate to -1 for TRUE . |
| 9 | The published Programme did still commit the party to communism as an ‘ historic perspective ’ , but this , as the Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov commented , was very much in the spirit of an ‘ epitaph on a tombstone ’ . |
| 10 | Gravels resembling marine gravel do locally occur but they are by no means common , even in areas well away from the ice margin . |
| 11 | English speakers do indeed find it natural , and complain mightily about the bizarre foreign habit of assigning gender to anything from a turnip to a sideboard . |
| 12 | The proportion of French visitors did indeed rise . |
| 13 | In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that . |
| 14 | Replotting data from the cumulative curve to the frequency curve shows that linear segments do sometimes coincide with recognizable sub-populations but in other cases inflexions where linear segments join also coincide with population peaks . |
| 15 | If we fail in this , all scientific discoveries do more harm than good . |
| 16 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 17 | The clearest examples of cultural behaviour do indeed come from a social animal , the Japanese macaque , a monkey that inhabits the forests of various islands around Japan . |
| 18 | We shall start by confirming that sexual behaviour does indeed ensure that mates are of the correct species , and then see how well Darwin 's theory , modified and tested by recent work , can explain the full variety of sexual behaviour in animals both during courtship and , later , in parental care . |
| 19 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman did indeed hear me correctly . |
| 21 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 22 | Thus the fact that he did not act otherwise is held to indicate that these social arrangements do indeed accord with the will of God . |
| 23 | Electronic media does however present very great opportunities for the enlightened corporate records manager to provide enhanced storage of strategic information and improved access for researchers . |
| 24 | Despite the elevation of chef to artisan cook to fine artist , it is still rare to find a British restaurant where food is served without a main eye on fashion and where home-grown ingredients do no appear as mutant clones of other cuisines . |
| 25 | The crucial Article 8A inserted into the Treaty of Rome by the Single European Act does indeed state : |
| 26 | It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society . |
| 27 | The 16 per cent of authorities where Independents are dominant are mostly in the more rural parts of Scotland , England and Wales , but as Widdicombe notes ( 1986 , vol. 1 , p. 23 ) ‘ the overall figure does perhaps represent a stronger resilience of the Independent tradition in an era of increasing party politicisation than might have been anticipated ’ . |
| 28 | You know I 'd never really valued the the erm the truth in that term , straight heads do definitely think very differently . |
| 29 | But if SEAC can be persuaded to give parity of esteem to the assessment of cross-curricular themes within subjects , and better still , to revise syllabuses when an overall plan does eventually emerge , much will have been achieved — in fact , nothing less than the coherence and purpose educators seek . |
| 30 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |