Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the means by which it has done so provide another example of the fascination and complexity of adaptation in the natural world . |
| 2 | The Kennel Club defend themselves against accusations that they do not do enough to curtail irresponsible breeding . |
| 3 | It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory . |
| 4 | Bassett said : ‘ Gayle got a kick on the knee at Coventry in our last match and he 's not done much work all week . ’ |
| 5 | This should be done annually to ensure dense sides , removing up to half the season 's new growth at a time . |
| 6 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 7 | Certainly , speakers are free to select from a wide range of surface forms in order to achieve a particular communicative purpose , and it is quite likely that they will do so to attain appropriate levels of politeness , solidarity or social distance . |
| 8 | The association would do better to invest some of that money in advertising to attract a larger audience to the annual meeting . |
| 9 | Mal worked in Boots ; friends she 'd entertained at home suggested she 'd do better dispensing authentic grub to a wider circle . |
| 10 | There was no one in sight , but should she trespass into what was blatantly a private area or would she do better to tramp all the way up the stairs again ? |
| 11 | You 'd do better to buy more shares in the market — if you really want more . |
| 12 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
| 13 | If you suffer from a phobia , you would probably do best to seek outside help from a professional . |
| 14 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 15 | The Home Secretary is promoting his Bill by saying that people who are fleeing from political or social oppression do not deserve to come here and do not deserve political asylum . |
| 16 | They argue that it is misguided to pretend that these proscribed organisations ( like Sinn Fein ) either do not exist or do not carry massive popular support . |
| 17 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 18 | However , old people who need help do not initiate such schemes . |
| 19 | We ca n't deliberately do not maintain those voluntary groups which we feel are appropriately and better funded by the health authority . |
| 20 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 21 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 22 | I 've ever done just keeping quiet ! |
| 23 | Freud accepted that a more equal distribution of wealth would do more to lessen such conflict , and help further the development of civilization for mankind as a whole , than any other reform . |
| 24 | Last night Hacene Mefti , Algeria 's oil minister , said his country was also unhappy at the outcome , claiming that other members which had benefited from Kuwait 's absence from the quota system for two years should do more to help smaller producers . |
| 25 | And government could do more to encourage new forms of volunteering , to encourage the most effective use of the money it gives , and to bring together voluntary effort at the local and national level . |
| 26 | We should also do more to pay good classroom teachers . |
| 27 | This will do more to inspire public confidence than the prison officers ' negative attitude . |
| 28 | Few men can have done more to relieve human suffering , or shown less interest in profiting from the process . |
| 29 | In this chapter I have done more to highlight some of the problems in reaching a definition of God than to offer a solution of my own . |
| 30 | In particular , we could have done more to use private investment in the road-building programme . |