Example sentences of "[noun prp] does [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , WordPerfect does have drop-down menus , but they 're accessed via an unmemorable key combination — Alt plus the = key , although you can change the default to something more sensible , like plain Alt — and the keyboard shortcuts are equally forgettable .
2 The view for which Katib Celebi 's list forms the basis thus differs , broadly , in two important respects from the traditional account based on Mustakimzade : first , on the question of the origins of the office , by naming Hizir Bey , in Istanbul , as the first Mufti and by implication denying the Muftiliks of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi ( though d'Ohsson does make some attempt , if an inaccurate and and unpersuasive one , to take account of the tradition of an earlier Muftilik ) ; and second , on the question of how and when Molla Husrev became Mufti , this question involving also the circumstances of the Muftiliks of Abdulkerim and Molla Arab .
3 But despite the fact that he has been ‘ steadily critical ’ of successive governments ' housing policies , Prof Greve does see some hope for the future — and even for some of the tower blocks .
4 Even where Darwin does mention natural selection , he also mentions inheritance of acquired characteristics .
5 Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities .
6 So far , most discounters have stuck to selling food , though Aldi does use one-off promotions of clothing to attract customers .
7 With a couple of exceptions , the separate numbers ' are actually inseparable from their context while , on the other hand , Britten does use Wagnerian leitmotifs as part of a rather more generalised system of motivic transformations .
8 Indeed the BBC does send urgent tapes in taxis and you are supposed to avoid tube trains but the story I was told gave a different explanation .
9 Chisholm does make that move , and provides no new reason for believing in infallibility .
10 Joe does earn some money on the after-dinner speaking circuit , and has addressed an assortment of lawyers , writers and bankers since his release .
11 It is clear that Dworkin does make this assumption .
12 If Petrey does hold this view , then it is an extremely significant claim which should have been made explicitly , especially since many speech act semanticists have based their semantic analyses on a link between linguistic forms and illocutionary forces .
13 Bull does have another transaction processing product , BOS/tp , which is Bull 's Unix implementation of Tuxedo — this has nothing to do with CICS ; it enables existing Bull and RS/6000 customers to run Unix applications with Oracle and so on .
14 We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far .
15 But traditionally such people would have done , er and perhaps in earlier times you know , er maybe Mrs Thatcher does say some prayers , I do n't know , but maybe prayers would be said .
16 Sue Adams of Greenpeace said : ‘ The NRA does have adequate powers to prosecute , but it does n't seem to use them often enough . ’
17 Nevertheless , the NVC does record this community in the Outer Hebrides ( South Uist to north Lewis ) .
18 This suggests that Elizabeth does have some freedom to shape her life , although society will always place limitations on that freedom .
19 True , in some instances the USA does offer better conditions than the UK , but Americans also possess a positive mental attitude towards success and achievement .
20 ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . )
21 Gatsby does have more success than Clegg , as he and Daisy do rekindle their affair for a time and plan for Daisy to leave her husband .
22 But when Covent Garden does put black dancers on its payroll , what then ?
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