Example sentences of "[Wh pn] do [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet 95 per cent of diets fail , and among the 5 per cent of women who do achieve permanent weight-loss , many have developed serious eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia . |
| 2 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
| 3 | The solution for male doctors who do rough pelvic exams on women might begin in medical schools , where each male student would be placed in stirrups and a strange female MD would come and ‘ squeeze his balls and leave without saying a word ’ . |
| 4 | I mean I think there are groups of women all over the country very interested in feminism and doing lots of good work and providing support for women who do want some sort of change , and so if that 's what you mean by the women 's liberation movement I think it 's a very good thing . |
| 5 | It is sometimes supposed , by those who do allow that consciousness is a reality not caught by any of the doctrines we have considered , that none the less nothing enlightening can be said of it . |
| 6 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 7 | Of those who do use some form of protection not all use a sunscreen … 13 per cent rely instead on a long-sleeved shirt or T-shirt and another 17 per cent on a sun hat . |
| 8 | Those very few who do receive enough child support to ‘ float ’ them off income support may nevertheless lose financially because of the consequent loss of passported benefits such as free school meals . |
| 9 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
| 10 | On the whole we 've tended to leave that to , to people who do have that specialisation . |
| 11 | Third , those who do have long-term relationships with particular organizations , whether these relationships are exclusive or not , enjoy a considerable level of informal protection . |
| 12 | Women like Sarah , on the other hand , who do have high expectations of marriage , are likely to be sufficiently disillusioned by the reality of wedded bliss not to want to repeat the experience . |
| 13 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 14 | It is particularly important that those who work with and for elderly people keep a sense of perspective about this because , in their work , they will encounter a biased sample , those who need their help , many of whom do present serious problems . |