Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most sailing schools do run to these standards and it is quite rate to find one that does n't . |
| 2 | Snakes do respond to quick movements . |
| 3 | These global considerations do rely on numerical computation to a large extent , are nonrigorous , and do not provide predictions of actual behaviour at actual parameter values . |
| 4 | These counts covered about 60 square kilometres in which distribution was more uniform than on the coast , but higher densities do occur in favoured spots . |
| 5 | Speaker variables were used to interpret the results of the analysis rather than as an input to it , and in fact speakers did fall into ethnic , status and age groups ( cf. |
| 6 | However , careful studies over considerable areas with measurement of heights have shown that the presumed terrace fragments do fall into marked series , so that the basic interpretation seems to be correct , even though features other than terraces may have been included occasionally . |
| 7 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 8 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 9 | In other words , a trade off of sorts does exist after all : it is a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of change of the actual and expected rates of inflation . |
| 10 | The following empirical evidence suggests that despite the existence of some differences in the experience of unemployment , women 's unemployment is a significant issue , although the nature of women 's problems and concerns do differ from those of men . |
| 11 | The Court decided that although the hours thresholds did amount to indirect discrimination , they were not contrary to European Community law since they could be ‘ objectively justified ’ on policy grounds . |
| 12 | Finally whilst it is true that prices and costs did increase between 1978 and 1987 , none of this was directly attributable to expenditures on the Mahaweli Project , which was financed by outright grants and concessionary loans from friendly governments : basic social services and food subsidies were never curtailed . |
| 13 | Some Christians do meet in small groups and George is in a position to be a contact person between them . |
| 14 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 15 | Gloucestershire 's social workers do work with abused children , but there are no funds for specialist units . |
| 16 | Nevertheless banks do enter into Back-to-Back Credits from time to time , each case is treated on its merits . |
| 17 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |
| 18 | If problems do remain after two or three months , ask your doctor about changing to a different type of progestogen . |
| 19 | Some consultancies and many freelance consultants do specialize in one type of media , say fashion , cars or sports . |
| 20 | Er the project resources sheet erm again th th the erm it 's identify erm the quantities do seem about right . |
| 21 | One of the principles underlying Earth Mysteries is that unusual things do happen at certain places in the countryside . |
| 22 | Ah well , stranger things DO happen in real life than happen even on Brookie , y'know … |
| 23 | I threw that one back even faster , because in that moment a new shock struck at me — proving that bad things do come in threes . |
| 24 | Although dislocations do exist in non-metallic crystals they are not usually very mobile and they seldom breed , thus dislocation movement does not play any important part in the way non-metals behave . |
| 25 | In the spa town of Svetlogorsk old German villas are kept for members of the Baltic Fleet ; civilians make do with bleak concrete blocks . |
| 26 | As Butterworth ( 1983 ) points out , there are cases where similar exchanges do occur for other word-final fragments . |
| 27 | Recent research on adolescent girls in South Wales indicates that patterns of social relationships in girls do differ from those of boys ; in particular , the ‘ best friend ’ phenomenon seems more important . |
| 28 | However , accidents do happen to school-age children in the course of play , and consistent with the activities of this age group , they suffer fewer accidents in the home ( compared with pre-school age children ) but more accidents outdoors and in the school playground . |
| 29 | Er the roads are about four kilometres apart and , and a valuation would I think be pretty meaningless because conditions er along those two axes do differ in certain respects . |
| 30 | However , the upshot of his research is that differences in motor skills do exist between black and white kids . |