Example sentences of "the [noun pl] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Even if the activities do present curbs on the rights of the general public to go about their business , street action might still be justified where , for example , it brings to public consciousness some injustice that would not otherwise receive a public hearing . ) |
| 2 | Certainly , the activities do focus concentration and energy , but I also use these activities diagnostically , to give myself time and space to assess the class , to learn about their social health ; they help me feel comfortable with the class , and that is important . |
| 3 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 4 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 5 | Like our own superstores , they stock a much wider range of goods than the warehouses , but experts say supermarkets in Britain should be worried if the clubs do take off here . |
| 6 | One area where the accounts do show some growth , though , is in special projects . |
| 7 | However , the accounts do reveal the operation of a different form of response in these instances , expressed in what we have called a principle of equilibration . |
| 8 | And , yes , the cities do close down for August — and in mid-February . |
| 9 | These incidences are very rare and actually disposals through the courts do exist using the care facilities which are already available to the local authorities and the secure accommodation . |
| 10 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 11 | If the birds do peck through the foil bottle tops , doctors warn against drinking the milk as it could be contaminated with the bug . |
| 12 | However , the proposals do contain some features of a Type I1 model . |
| 13 | Should the local planning authority determine that the proposals do constitute or involve development , it has to inform the applicant of grounds on which it has reached this decision and also his rights of appeal . |
| 14 | In spite of these problems , the proposals do have the potential for righting the current gross geographical imbalance of services , though only if the resources made available to and by local authorities genuinely match the local costs of domiciliary and residential care . |
| 15 | If the Russians do arrive on this scale it will be the largest single wave of what Israelis call aliya ( literally ‘ ascent ’ ) since the immediate post independence years in the early 1950s , a heady return to the heart of the Zionist idea at a time when the country — still fighting the Palestinian uprising , on a permanent war footing and its economy slipping into recession — is far from ready . |
| 16 | The cases do suggest , however , that where a director does possess a relevant expertise he should be judged by the standards of a competent practitioner of it , presumably on the ground that he has expressly or impliedly held himself out as being appropriately qualified . |
| 17 | The Rules do contain adequate provisions for appeal by the person upon whom a notice is served . |
| 18 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 19 | Special competition considerations arise if the products do appear in Annex II , whether they are subject to a common organisation of the market ( which most products now are ) , or a national organisation of the market ( which few products now are ) . |
| 20 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 21 | The returns do get a bit dodgy I find . |
| 22 | But some of the headmasters have a deliberate multi-denominational policy in terms of ethos and curriculum and the schools do provide multi-denominational settings which , if researched , could throw light on debates about denominational and shared schools . |
| 23 | I know the Chelsea players reacted but it is a passionate game and the tackles do go in . ’ |
| 24 | We certainly set it because if the kids do spend all their time doing these demonstration experiments they 're sure to get bored — life is like that . |
| 25 | Suppose a judge then announces , in the style of law as integrity , that the precedents do establish a right to damages because that reading of the precedents makes them in retrospect morally sounder . |
| 26 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 27 | The spores do germinate , go through a few perfunctory cell divisions , then give up the ghost . |
| 28 | The Scots do tend to take most things seriously . |
| 29 | In business the legal presumption is that the parties do intend to make a valid contract . |
| 30 | One school , led by S. E. Finer , claims that the parties do make a difference and that , because parties have become more partisan , this is regrettable . |