Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the potential for profitable production did improve , as the post-May 1968 expansion demonstrated . |
| 2 | London Transport does not have to switch frequencies before 1990 , But this massive victory for British diplomacy does have one minor drawback — the transitional period does not apply to the new users . |
| 3 | But there will be situations where you really feel you may be defending a lost cause , because after all things do go quite disastrously wrong . |
| 4 | And it 's not just the businesses that are obviously involved with the tourist industry , because after all visitors do spend money . |
| 5 | Goneril and Regan almost have hypocrisy thrust upon them , in that Lear 's invitations to flatter for instant profit do impose an intolerable burden on anyone of a less than firm integrity . |
| 6 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 8 | And I know a lot of Labour people do agree with that . |
| 9 | It may well be the case , however , that to some degree fear of political change does inhibit civil servants , so that in order to ensure continuity they will only promote policies which they judge both major parties will accept . |
| 10 | Goody , however , claims that if the processes of political scepticism do occur at all in non-literate societies , they must always be limited and individual . |
| 11 | Even if a large number of private citizens do use the procedure , what is unknown is how many more people with a small claim never take legal proceedings . |
| 12 | He stated at p494 : If A has the legal capacity to transfer an opportunity to make a gain and in the exercise of that capacity does transfer that opportunity to B by his own act he does so directly . |
| 13 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 14 | The vast majority of chartered accountants do provide a very high standard of service : as a result , public expectation is high which is why when the relatively few failures do occur , they lead to so much concentrated and adverse publicity . |
| 15 | A small number of late-nineteenth-century thinkers did begin to warn against the dangers of pollution and environmental exhaustion , but they were as yet in a minority . |
| 16 | A number of computational applications do use linguistic information however . |
| 17 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , a high level of public spending does raise problems , especially when the general economic situation is bad . |
| 19 | I like him and read him again and again ; and his tartness , his acid humour , his honesty , his feeling for certain English types and certain kinds of English scenery do appeal to me very much . |
| 20 | This was how the visual comedy of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was conceived , although this was not to be the opening episode of the series ; Michael Mills felt the couple needed to be introduced in another story , which saw Frank go for a job as a door-to-door salesman — one of many jobs — and bungle the practice session in his own inimitable way . |
| 21 | Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . |
| 22 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |
| 23 | As the second series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was about to begin , he drove to Birmingham to appear as a guest celebrity in the TV show What 's My Line . |
| 24 | After a year 's break , Crawford was back at the BBC , making a final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and a play that would show his more serious side to a large audience in the way that only television could do . |
| 25 | Before making another series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , he starred in a BBC Play for Today double-bill , Private View and Audience , under the umbrella title Sorry … |
| 26 | Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown . |
| 27 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 28 | When the third series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ended , Crawford decided to hang up Frank Spencer 's beret and raincoat for ever . |
| 29 | Dr Sharp , part of the ear nose and throat team writing in the British Medical Journal , reported that the hearing of some patients did improve a little after wax removal , but there was n't a dramatic change . |
| 30 | However , the facts of this case do illustrate the injustice which could arise if Miss Marshall is correct in the admirable submissions which she has advanced on behalf of the landlord , to the effect that in this case he was entitled to resort to self-help . |