Example sentences of "[art] [adj] do [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He assured Benn that the French were not going to let themselves be tied by COCOM : ‘ Frankly , the French do promise integrated circuits and the dates and deliveries are laid down . ’ |
| 2 | It follows that , if the Japanese do incorporate imputed interest charges , they are obviously trying to assess whether the cash inflows are sufficient to meet all claims upon them , including the yields required by shareholders . |
| 3 | The implication is that poverty is due to lack of involvement with successful capitalist enterprise and , though a minority of the poor do become successful entrepreneurs by building up small businesses from street selling , the vast majority are poor because they are excluded from the modern economy . |
| 4 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Even when the latter does raise religious matters , he seems to deal with them from a different perspective than that of the ascetic theology of Faustus or the spiritual philosophy of another great writer and friend , Claudianus Mamertus . |
| 6 | ‘ I had periods , ’ though upon reflection , the bleeding does seem mean and scarce , and I can not exactly remember my last period . |