Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth nightly rob the dayrie |
| 2 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 3 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking . |
| 4 | It needs space to throw the dice and this is not practical in planes and trains where it can do most to relieve the boredom of a long journey . |
| 5 | It is a cruel irony that the man who has done most to reform the party and its policies , taking it to within a whisker of power , should be blamed for its failure to make the final leap to power . |
| 6 | It is to be doubted , however , whether they would have done so had the Monarch exercised a wide personal discretion without seeking the advice of Conservative elders . |
| 7 | We would not have done so had the fee been £600 . |
| 8 | Morris claimed to have done so to demonstrate the weaknesses in the network 's security system . |
| 9 | The most frequent reason is that the chairperson gets too involved in the task and does n't do enough to manage the process . |
| 10 | Does the witness know how to contact you if they are going to be late ? ( 10 ) Do you do enough to help the witness get to court ; proper notice , instructions , map etc ? ( 11 ) Do you have a system for thanking witnesses regardless of whether they have to give evidence ? ( 12 ) Do you have an explanatory leaflet to give the witness ? |
| 11 | I found some cotton stuff that would do nicely to replace the sacking at our windows , and a pair of linen sheets . |
| 12 | The bourgeoisie remained unsuffering , and Marx might have done better to have the carbuncles professionally seen to . |
| 13 | He gave as the ground for his refusal Matadial 's acceptance that her statement to the police was incorrect , but Mr. Pantry did not oppose the application and their Lordships consider that the judge would have done better to read the statement before giving his ruling . |
| 14 | All Witney 's hard work was rewarded six minutes from time ; Mark Walton done brilliantly to keep the ball in play the slipped the ball back to Paul Lewis who crossed first time , and there was Steve Jenkins to head home and snatch a well-deserved point . |
| 15 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 16 | A training organisation which normally recruited 20 young people at Easter and can not now do so saves the Government £7,000 . |
| 17 | They would do better to read the chapter ‘ Developments in Yugoslavia ’ in volume iii of Prof Hinsley 's official history of British intelligence , part one , for a refutation of the claim that Tito did not fight the Germans , supported by copious and conclusive quotations from Ultra |
| 18 | She 'd do better to throw the letter away unread , would n't she ? ’ |
| 19 | ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 6 ) We will do better to consider the objection that science does not in fact involve or make use of a conception of causal and other nomic connection . |
| 20 | Nor will it do just to ignore the problem , for if one does one soon finds that one 's semantics is self-contradictory . |
| 21 | But it will not do just to dismiss the evidence of their experience out of hand . |
| 22 | So what does she do just maintain the stables ? |
| 23 | ‘ 17. … article 30 of the Treaty must be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition which it lays down does not apply to national rules prohibiting retailers from opening their premises on Sunday where the restrictive effects on Community trade which may result therefrom do not exceed the effects intrinsic to rules of that kind . |
| 24 | All you do , is you mark it on an item if you 're gon na do the television do not do the screens , because every time you turn on up will come your postcode . |
| 25 | unc Since the metric system follows the place value method used in the decimal system , changing lengths from metres to decimetres , centimetres or millimetres can be done easily using the table of metric length . |
| 26 | The second requirement is to examine the mitotic cells under conditions where the inactive can be distinguished from the active X. Numerous methods are available which , for example , include autoradiography and systems of 5 " -bromodeoxyuridine ( BrdU ) substitution , but here , the simpler Kanda ( 18 ) method will be described ( Table 7 ) since it can be done quickly using the minimum of equipment . |
| 27 | Will she do more to publicise the results of the recent negotiations on that issue ? |
| 28 | ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers . |
| 29 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |
| 30 | Eliminating tax breaks on corporate entertaining would probably do more to break the power of keiretsu than beefing up Japan 's feeble antitrust laws or passing intricate rules on cross share-holdings . |