Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 2 | Against the powerful opposition of many in the Nazi hierarchy Vlasov 's German supporters could do no more than secure permission to use the general for propaganda purposes . |
| 3 | Theoretically , bats could do the same thing , but dolphins seem more likely candidates because they are in general more social . |
| 4 | Computers will do the physical ‘ tweaking ’ needed to adjust the picture , and to control quality . |
| 5 | Educators and trainers can do no more than provide the conditions , the content and the materials . |
| 6 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 7 | Ah the ramblers must do a roaring trade . |
| 8 | Debates on Europe in the Assemblée Nationale are attended by a mere handful of deputés and after the dramatic debate in Westminster in June 1991 , Jacques Delors remarked that only the British were discussing Europe properly , adding that he wished the other countries would do the same . |
| 9 | In her book Bullying At Work ( Virago £6.99 ) she suggests that workers should do the following : LOG instances in which you are attacked , with dates , times and locations . |
| 10 | Too weak to bargain over the State 's impositions , the townsmen could do no more than try to spread the burden as thinly as possible . |
| 11 | ‘ Presumably the cruel , implacable , scheming Teuton hordes will do the same tomorrow , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 13 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 14 | Only a Legal Service Commission with executive powers could do the necessary research and co-ordination job . |
| 15 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |
| 16 | A book with a title like this has to be full of choice bits of information that confirm what most of us who have been in the Services have always known — that high-ranking officers can do the daftest things . |
| 17 | Knowledge of the details could do no further harm . |
| 18 | If hunt saboteurs could do the same , this sort of thing need never happen again |
| 19 | He hopes the burglars will do the same . |
| 20 | I hope that the changes in the Somerset Levels will do a great deal to ensure that the area is much improved for wading birds . |
| 21 | It is a common fallacy that the cheaper , carbon-zinc batteries will do the same job but with a shorter life . |
| 22 | The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death . |
| 23 | I have in mind such measures as coverage , timeliness , accuracy , ease of use , and so on , all of which if assessed and publicised by library and information professionals would do a great deal to improve the overall standard of business information sources . |
| 24 | Now the prison sentences would do the same . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course the traffickers would do no such thing . |
| 26 | Not based upon any consensus of content , nor the expectation that teachers will do the same thing with all the class , this takes seriously the concept of the teacher as the manager of pupils ' own learning instead of a purveyor of information and ideas . |
| 27 | Pakistan 's supporters , so many of them zealots , will not be shifted from their belief that their players can do no wrong , and that England 's are , on the whole , unshiftable in their attitudes . |
| 28 | ‘ If I do what you ask , ’ said Osman , ‘ can I be sure that the Copts will do the same ? ’ |
| 29 | Two measures should do a good deal to grease the wheels of the City 's securities business . |
| 30 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |