Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps , after all , you really do secretly relish the thought of sharing a house with me . ’ |
| 2 | The lazy punkas overhead do little to ease the discomfort of the temperature and humidity . |
| 3 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 4 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 5 | Faxes and telephones add to the flow of communication but do little to reduce the flow of people . |
| 6 | I do rather crave a motor car . |
| 7 | Plants with a fibrous root system , creating plenty of organic matter , do most to improve the soil structure . |
| 8 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 9 | It is less easy to see , for instance , how the meaning of a loss such as bereavement could be so readily reinterpreted , or whether such attempts do much to reduce the risk of depression . |
| 10 | Nor did early twentieth-century state welfare provision do much to alleviate the position of working class wives because it too assumed the existence of the bourgeois family model and a family wage . |
| 11 | Er , we call on Labour Mem Members of Parliament to give their support in each of these areas mentioned , and we do constantly have a dialogue and provide what is the union line in terms of erm these particular er issues . |
| 12 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 13 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 14 | But the geographical areas served do obviously make a difference . |
| 15 | should er and we do already confess the name do n't we ? |
| 16 | Do not tell the story , he wrote . |
| 17 | And do not tell the General yet of the loss of his wife or children . |
| 18 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 19 | The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor . |
| 20 | It is clear that clauses of all these types operate to restrict the remedies available on a breach of contract ; they do not prevent a breach occurring . |
| 21 | Capital costs have risen as a result of increasing use of bought deals , and the need to set up research and secondary market trading operations ( to satisfy institutional investors ' liquidity requirements and to gain an investor base to complement primary activities ) , although capital requirements as such do not prevent a market being contestable . |
| 22 | Unless started very early in the course of the disease , antibiotics do not prevent the development of abscesses and can sometimes just delay their development . |
| 23 | However , both these situations do not prevent the development of a euro-market in the currency concerned , providing it is fully convertible for non-residents of those countries and is deposited in a bank outside of their national boundaries . |
| 24 | But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes . |
| 25 | The rules do not prevent the use of extrinsic evidence in interpreting genuine ambiguities in the words of the contract . |
| 26 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 27 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 28 | The written sources are almost silent about the subject of internal trade , just as the details of overseas trade do not match the volume of archaeological evidence . |
| 29 | Well I 've er as I 've previously said , in the County Council 's opinion , these two fields do not perform a greenbelt function , they are visually and physically separate from the open agricultural land both to the north and to the west of the sites . |
| 30 | The District Council considers that the noninclusion of the sites in the greenbelt is because they do not perform a greenbelt function , and not an indication that the sites are suitable for development , particularly as sufficient housing land has been identified in Local Plan . |