Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis may work better outside the laboratory ; we do not know because no one using hypnosis for the police has done properly controlled tests , although one American police hypnotist insists that hypnosis is helpful 90.1 per cent of the time . |
| 2 | At the same time , the committee believed , some West Indian parents did not do enough to support schools and teachers . |
| 3 | We 'll invest the island ; it will be a harder struggle , but with the men drilled and ready , we shall overcome that rabble — some of their force are mere chits of girls , who would do better to wear petticoats than breeches ! ’ |
| 4 | Parents need to provide their children with firm guidance and positive models of behaviour ; schools should do more to prepare pupils for the responsibilities of being parents . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite Olivetti 's best efforts , it is continuing to be hurt by falling computer prices and must do more to cut costs to bring it back to operating profitability , ’ one source said . |
| 6 | Congress , President , the government have got no guts to announce publicly that their intentions to privatize the N H S on a date that will give the leading time with the razzmatazz and P R that they 've done before to sell shares , to sell shares in the British public in a public nationally held N H S , there will be no seats , there will be no Inspector Morses and others as there 've been with Telecom , gas , water and electricity . |
| 7 | He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive . |
| 8 | What it implied was that BA has not exactly been covering itself with glory in its propaganda war with Virgin — and would do well to change tactics . |
| 9 | Tell your reader what questions you are going to answer and do n't make promises you ca n't keep ( see pp. 92 – 4 ) . |
| 10 | So you think , you think people who live in in well off areas , there 's lots to do do n't take drugs ? |
| 11 | So I said to Paul , well you 've done well getting windows open . |
| 12 | We 've done well to get Nails and Hoomey going so well . |
| 13 | St Ives , exposed as it is to the advertising cycle through the production of magazines , has done well to achieve profits stability after a sharp fall from £29.1m in 1989/90 . |
| 14 | The New Survey of London Life and Labour agreed with this assessment and reported that whereas in the 1880s homework had been done primarily to supplement wages , in the 1930s women tended to work in order to buy extras , reflecting the greater regularity of men 's employment , together with a more efficient social security system for the families of the unemployed . |
| 15 | Electricians , TV repairers and the like should now do likewise to put rogues out of business . |
| 16 | But failure to do so brings fines of up to $25,000 a day . |
| 17 | Indeed , if present levels of family care are to be sustained , the state will have to do more to support families in terms of both services and cash benefits . |
| 18 | She would also like to do more to help women , particularly working single mothers on low incomes . |
| 19 | The ATB needed to do more to make farmers aware how training was one of the cogs in a wheel of progress that included advisory services , banks , accountants , marketing organisations , etc . |
| 20 | You 're continuously working round and taking people off doing what they ought to do simply to move things around and you , you 've talked of that . |
| 21 | That 's still not gon na , that 's still not gon na take us away from , you know , sorry there 's nobody on produce today , you 're gon na sorry training is out of the window today and maybe , maybe the department manager on produce , I du n no goes sick or something and he has to take over there for two or three weeks and it 's well do n't worry you know you 'll get back on to the training |
| 22 | It is not unusual for a receiver to continue to run a business while he is selling off the charged assets and in doing so to purchase goods on credit . |
| 23 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 24 | It will carry out commercial work for example using the Dounreay Fuel Plants only if doing so uses facilities important for the government work and also reduces the net cost to Government . |
| 25 | It seems to allow that , although we must begin and end with appearances , we might find it possible and advantageous in doing so to interpose conjectures about their hidden causes . |
| 26 | ‘ The Bangles wanted to emphasise the rock'n'roll side of the band and in doing so thought regalia and kind of hippyish , Hendrix-style clothing was gon na put that image across , but it ended up looking very glamorous , it ended up looking glammier and glammier even though the intention was for it not to be glamour … |
| 27 | This process , whilst seemingly disruptive , is more akin to unravelling or undoing a complex structure in order to better understand its make-up , but in doing so to express differences in terms of juxtapositions or comparisons , rather than seeking a unitary , univocal dimension based on hierarchical values . |
| 28 | Objective : to liberalize world trade and by doing so to raise standards of living , to ensure full employment , to expand the production and exchange of goods , and to promote economic development . |
| 29 | It is clearly necessary to find a unified and consistent explanation of all these phenomena and by doing so to find ways of doing better in the future on all three points . |
| 30 | They are overwhelmingly popular with parents and pupils and are doing much to raise standards for children of all abilities in the inner cities . |