Example sentences of "they do [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they do not the court may hold a rule invalid . |
| 2 | Large quantities of gas may be involved in the eruption of basaltic lavas ; when the lava is below ground , the gas is kept in solution in the molten rock , when the pressure on the lava is reduced the gases come out of solution and bubbles form , just as they do when a bottle of champagne is opened . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 4 | The sun 's rays have to travel through more of the Earth 's absorbent atmosphere to reach these areas than they do when the sun is overhead , resulting in a drop in temperature as winter approaches . |
| 5 | They do quite a lot of stuff in there . |
| 6 | We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity . |
| 7 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |
| 8 | As they do so the male arches his back and draws his sexual opening adjacent to that of the female . |
| 9 | Food processors have revolutionised some people 's lives because they take all the effort out of preparing food , as they do all the chopping , slicing , grating , blending , whisking , and kneading incredibly fast . |
| 10 | ‘ They do all the performing and I just sit around watching them ! ’ |