Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] the [noun] " 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 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 6 | Faxes and telephones add to the flow of communication but do little to reduce the flow of people . |
| 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 | 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 " . |
| 12 | should er and we do already confess the name do n't we ? |
| 13 | Do not tell the story , he wrote . |
| 14 | And … do not tell the Earl Patrick ! ’ |
| 15 | Do not tell the police we have made contact . |
| 16 | And do not tell the General yet of the loss of his wife or children . |
| 17 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes . |
| 21 | The rules do not prevent the use of extrinsic evidence in interpreting genuine ambiguities in the words of the contract . |
| 22 | The principles in relation to the taxation of costs after a trial do not prevent the parties reaching their own agreement about costs where a settlement is effected before trial . |
| 23 | These principles do not prevent the parties from defining the expiration of the term by reference to a date before that of execution of the lease , or from making contractual provisions which take effect by reference to such a date , as by defining the period for the operation of a break-clause or an increase of rent . |
| 24 | Before considering the automatic directions , it is as well to remember that ( although they will be sufficient in most instances ) they are only the bare bones of the directions the parties may need in a personal injury case , and do not prevent the parties seeking any further directions they may need under Ord 25 whether set out in PF51 or not . |
| 25 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They question conventional wisdom , they ask awkward questions , they do not speak the jargon . |
| 29 | God has set the seed of his Spirit in our hearts and intends to produce in us a crop of lovely qualities of character if we do not grieve the Spirit ( Eph. 4:30 ) by wilful disobedience or neglect . |
| 30 | However , these studies do not examine the binding of NCp7 to the DNA ends . |