Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] do [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 2 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 3 | While in former years parents were encouraged to stay together for the sake of their children , more recently emphasis has been put on the damage done to children by parents who do stay married but are in constant conflict . |
| 4 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
| 5 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
| 6 | However , as your elected officers we do feel responsible for ensuring that as a national organisation ; we continue to survive and grow which means above all that we have a continual influx of new members . |
| 7 | The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance , inside information and relentless harrassment . |
| 8 | In those pants I do mean exposed . |
| 9 | The solution for male doctors who do rough pelvic exams on women might begin in medical schools , where each male student would be placed in stirrups and a strange female MD would come and ‘ squeeze his balls and leave without saying a word ’ . |
| 10 | Yet 95 per cent of diets fail , and among the 5 per cent of women who do achieve permanent weight-loss , many have developed serious eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia . |
| 11 | How can those women who do become conscious of their predicament act to change their situation ? |