Example sentences of "the [noun pl] do [det] " in BNC.

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31 If teachers ' allegiances to transmission pedagogies are to be loosened , then ways of encouraging their collaboration with colleagues must be found , along with the resources to do this .
32 But you all may be thinking , that is all well and good , but where are we going to find the time , the support , and the resources to do this .
33 Meanwhile , the consultants did all their own research , both by telephone and in libraries .
34 The EC does not have the powers to do this .
35 As compared with the way in which computing is usually taken out of the hands of machinists when CNC machine tools are introduced , consideration was given in the optical company to the idea of persuading the operators who cut the surfaces of the lenses to do some of their own computing , and even to the idea of installing computing facilities in the surfacing room itself .
36 Nor are the astronomers doing all the work .
37 Great l vans of them used to go round the glens doing that .
38 With so many part-time holdings the wives did much of the feeding and tending of stock during the winter but it was an area where neither husbands nor wives had been active in training .
39 Well , I also believe , as I said earlier , that we should have p MPs who represent the G M B about MPs who represent theirselves , for what they can get out of it , what kudos they can get out of it , but leave the activists to do all the work for 'em , to do all the work .
40 I might get you a couple of rooms — but then again , at some point I have to be in the rooms to do that . ’
41 ‘ Smart pratt , ’ snorted Billy ‘ you are going to catch your balls on the handlebars doing that one day . ’
42 The landlords do that , ’ she said , and pointed to three small cottages that had been vacated and destroyed within the past 24 hours .
43 The Americans do that a lot
44 The Americans did that .
45 The answers did little to cheer her up .
46 The Liberal Democrats are not frightened to say how they would raise the finances to do that .
47 The girls did this , then the three of them ran along the line to a corner .
48 The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg .
49 The liberals did little to win colonial opinion ; they restricted the number of American deputies in the new constitution lest American opinion should ‘ swamp ’ the Cortes ; they neglected the protests that the ‘ American ’ deputies already in Cadiz had no claims to represent American opinion ; they refused any substantial concession of freer trade .
50 It is , in my view , necessary for the plaintiffs to do more than point to the provisions of the statute .
51 ‘ Brian Clough and his management team are the men to do that for us . ’
52 Could n't the men do more ? ’
53 She added that she did not see the men doing these things to her sisters because : ‘ I was in the dark cupboard then . ’
54 That FMEs are appointed by the police does little to project the reality of independence , and transfer of this appointing responsibility to the Home Office ( or the Lord Chancellor ) and a register of accredited FMEs may be the way forward here .
55 This might increase the temptation on the police to do all in their power to discourage complaints .
56 there was a woman there that erm the police do this service thing where they 'll look a car over for you , if you bought a car that you know has been er in an accident and it 's been
57 I think that 's right I 'm sure the architects do those and and there are sort of architects ' practices who are particularly interested in
58 By 1987 , however , the classical style of architecture had started being used on large-scale developments also , and the average age of the architects doing this kind of work had dropped .
59 And he then justifies particular incidents of of er of violence and attack by saying that it 's the local tyrants , the , the evil gentry , the landless , the lawless landlords who have driven the peasants to do this anyway .
60 No I do n't think so , I think there 's a difference because the other excesses were on the peasants ' part now it 's okay whatever the peasants did , you know , it 's not terrible it 's , it 's fine to let the peasants do that , and also erm into the war period the peasants are gon na but must n't do it , this time it 's like okay , now we 're the party that 's saying let's go as far as we can .
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