Example sentences of "do [adv] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 2 | But what we 've done now they 've agreed to let me pay and I pay cost price for the drinks . |
| 3 | ‘ In Holland if coaches do n't do well they get the sack , so I am philosophical about the matter . |
| 4 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 5 | And she did not do what hedgehogs usually do when they find themselves in a bit of trouble : curl up in a tight , prickly ball . |
| 6 | However in doing so they remove magnetic tapes ’ greatest advantage : physical and logical standardisation . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that both education and health services improve the quality of labour and in doing so they assist economic growth . |
| 8 | In doing so they adapt their search requirement to the system in the hope of matching the system 's language . |
| 9 | But in doing so they raise further problems of their own . |
| 10 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
| 11 | This results in the open field lines convecting polewards under the magnetic ‘ tension ’ force , and in doing so they accelerate the magnetosheath ions that flow along them and cross the magnetopause . |
| 12 | In doing so they offer , it seems , their most conclusive definition of the word that has inspired their fiction : |
| 13 | In doing so they enter into social relationships with other people . |
| 14 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 15 | In doing so they appear to have been guilty of idealizing the origins and early development of an institution which was in later times vastly important but which was , at least in this particular respect , rather less than ideal . |
| 16 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 17 | But the strikers who have fought over so many months with so much courage and strength have achieved another kind of victory — they have exposed once and for all the myth of the TUC 's solidarity with exploited workers and in the process of doing so they have redefined the methods and outlook of industrial struggle . |
| 18 | In doing so they have pointed the way to a European future in which Germany will be the single biggest power , economically , politically , and perhaps militarily , so far as that still matters . |
| 19 | In doing so they have to meet increasingly stringent safety requirements following legislation consequent upon the Taylor Report on Safety in Sports Grounds . |
| 20 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 21 | In doing so they have reinforced and theorised a traditional Western cultural opposition between nature and culture . |
| 22 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
| 23 | Growers in the South and East are keen to recycle the surplus irrigation water that runs off fruit , vegetable and nursery plants in glasshouses , but by doing so they risk re-cycling expensive diseases which could wipe out their crops . |
| 24 | Always tell them how well they 're doing when they try to do up their buttons ( even if they ca n't quite complete the task ) , put away a toy or own up when they have done something wrong . |
| 25 | First of all it 's a against the law but after that these youngsters quite often do n't know what they 're doing when they get into a car and they are lethal |
| 26 | Presumably , this is what moths are doing when they fly into a candle and are burnt to death . |
| 27 | In his chapter on children 's pictures , Roger Wales considers what is to be made of what children are doing when they produce a picture . |
| 28 | ‘ Bluff ’ is a recipe which consists of giving the impression to the public that the police know what they are doing when they do not . |
| 29 | — How do students conceive of what they are doing when they program in PROLOG ? |
| 30 | Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd |