Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen , significantly , makes repeated reference to the work of those who insist that ‘ schools do make a difference ’ . |
| 2 | This suggestion seems in the right neighbourhood , for if checkerboard solutions do have a defect , it must lie in their distinctive feature , that they treat people differently when no principle can justify the distinction . |
| 3 | One school , led by S. E. Finer , claims that the parties do make a difference and that , because parties have become more partisan , this is regrettable . |
| 4 | So , " parties do make a difference in the way Britain is governed … [ but ] the differences in office between one party and another are less likely to arise from contrasting intentions than from the exigencies of government " . |
| 5 | Though it does not deny that subjects do have a duty to God to obey their ruler , it insists that rulers are not absolute , and themselves have duties to their subjects . |
| 6 | ‘ The fact that no fewer than half the funds invested in small firms in Scotland comes from personal equity shows that Scots do have a flair for enterprise and a willingness to back their own judgment that is essential in every entrepreneur . ’ |
| 7 | While the chances of a woman developing rheumatoid arthritis after a delivery are small , the researchers have nevertheless provided new evidence that hormones do play a role in some cases of the disease . |
| 8 | Suppose a judge then announces , in the style of law as integrity , that the precedents do establish a right to damages because that reading of the precedents makes them in retrospect morally sounder . |
| 9 | Although the Duke of Monmouth and a number of other exiles did lead a rebellion in the west country in 1685 , the rebels were unable to gain the support of any men of substance , and the ease with which the rebellion was crushed provides further testimony to the strength of the government 's position at this time . |
| 10 | Many countries do spend a lot of money on military arsenals so that they can invade and terrorise other countries . |
| 11 | In truth , elephants and E. coli do have a lot in common , inasmuch as all organisms share fundamental pathways of cellular metabolism — such as protein synthesis or carbohydrate breakdown — as well as the genetic code . |
| 12 | However , most sites do create a VMS user to do the LIFESPAN Managerial and Administrative duties ( eg. starting and stopping LIFESPAN processes , validating LIFESPAN databases , running the Hard Copy system ) and allocate one or more UICs for the LIFESPAN Process(es) . |
| 13 | This is the shop as is self evident and one of the I said there were some benefits erm the stewards do get a discount in the shop . |
| 14 | The rest of the costumes do look a trifle … stale . |
| 15 | Though utterly distant from his own life , he was nevertheless aware from the confusing gossip of his elders that Marines did maintain a fortress-monastery in a spire of the Palatine . |
| 16 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 17 | And stats do take a bit of time to do and you can write off a couple of hours if you 're going to do it properly and make sure that you 've got your i's dotted and your t's crossed . ’ |
| 18 | If plants do have a focus for the Life Force , it lies in their roots , for many plants regularly shed some or all of their above ground growth with the cycling of the seasons , regenerating in the next year from their roots . |
| 19 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 20 | ‘ As speech therapists , we are unable to cope with such a divergence of languages , although a number of therapists do speak a number of the West European languages ’ ( * ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Clownfish cover themselves with a sugar coating to avoid being stung by their anemone ’ What is true is that Clowns do have a polysaccharide mucus coating to mask the protein taste of their mucus — and thus avoid the anemone trigger mechanism which stings on sensing protein . |
| 22 | Although the procedure is quite slow and expensive , many more appeals are being taken to the courts on a variety of ingenious arguments , probably because the amount of money at stake can be very large , and because applicants do achieve a measure of success . |
| 23 | THAT governments do make a difference is an important presumption of free competitive elections . |
| 24 | Transport costs do impose a penalty . |
| 25 | Her Majesty 's dogs did make a bit of a dent in the corgi image when one of them bit the Queen 's hand during a fight last year , but like King Charles the second and his spaniels , the Queen is inseparable from her corgis . |
| 26 | The methodology , the results and the interpretation of those results have all been questioned and criticised ( see Parsons , 1978 ) but the Hawthorne experiments do suggest a number of considerations : |
| 27 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 28 | These changes do reflect a recognition of the growing importance of part-time work ( which is where most of the new jobs have been created in recent years ) and a recognition that full-time work is difficult for many lone mothers to sustain , given their domestic responsibilities . |
| 29 | Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall . |
| 30 | Public relations agencies do employ a number of assistants and a bright young person can sometimes get employed in this category . |