Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if present levels of family care are to be sustained , the state will have to do more to support families in terms of both services and cash benefits . |
| 2 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 3 | This process , whilst seemingly disruptive , is more akin to unravelling or undoing a complex structure in order to better understand its make-up , but in doing so to express differences in terms of juxtapositions or comparisons , rather than seeking a unitary , univocal dimension based on hierarchical values . |
| 4 | In these circumstances perhaps , they did not reinterpret history in each passing generation : experience of the relationship did not produce contestatory reformulations of knowledge . |
| 5 | The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily . |
| 6 | Some taxi firms said they did not want blood in their cars . |
| 7 | Later emperors did not regard suzerainty in central Italy as having passed to the popes by these donations . |
| 8 | Millwall did not sign Goddard in time to put him straight into their side . |
| 9 | Merymose did not involve Huy in the search that followed . |
| 10 | The correlation did not reach significance in the offspring of the hyperglycaemic mothers . |
| 11 | As we did not perform endoscopy in this control group , we can not rule out the inclusion of a few patients with gastritis . |
| 12 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 13 | For Moscow , agreements in certain areas , such as arms control , did not preclude competition in others , especially Third World conflicts . |
| 14 | It was widely held that the Koreans would not be ready for independence when the war ended : memories of the closing phase of the Yi dynasty did not inspire confidence in Korean ability for effective government and the era of Japanese dominance had been so repressive as to necessitate a period of readjustment . |
| 15 | ( These natives , however , probably did not usurp citizenship in any numbers . ) |
| 16 | But Johnson did not sense hostility in his teens . |
| 17 | She did not blame Sarah in the least . |
| 18 | In relation to the question of the position of women , it would follow that , since — it is thought — the new testament does not allow the headship of a woman , and through the fact that women did not exercise headship in that society , that a woman should be head of state is as wrong as that a woman should exercise headship within the church . |
| 19 | Hilton interprets ‘ new mind ’ or ‘ new feeling ’ as the creation of contemplation , which now demanded far more than the old Benedictine ideal where the monk did not experience God in the achievement of higher states of consciousness but in the mundane details of daily life . |
| 20 | He apologized and explained , but she did not waste time in argument . |
| 21 | Apart from Lineker claiming Taylor had a personal vendetta against him , he also suggests Taylor did not treat players in the proper manner . |
| 22 | It was as if hammers had hit us ; without a word we left , and we did not set foot in the house for many months , until Valeria announced that all was forgiven . |
| 23 | These efforts did not stop protests in Congress and the media at the " free-handed " way in which the British had passed " the buck " across the Atlantic . |
| 24 | As we have seen ( Chapter 1 ) , class did not displace status in British society . |
| 25 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
| 26 | The CP , after some initial confusion , made it clear that , while it did not oppose conscription in principle , it was unacceptable under Chamberlain . |
| 27 | Of course there was Marcella , but one can usually tell , from the way a man speaks of a woman , if there is an emotional involvement and , despite Mrs Burger , Wycliffe felt reasonably sure that Tate did not seek release in the arms of his stepmother . |
| 28 | Between 1688 and 1714 monarchs had changed their ministers fairly frequently but they did not defy changes in public feeling and were always able to gain a majority in Parliament for the man they chose . |
| 29 | Lockwood did not follow Weber in identifying an upper class based on the ownership of property ; he did , though , use a Weberian approach to distinguish between different groups of employees . |
| 30 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |