Example sentences of "do [vb infin] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , ’ said Fribble , glancing to the velvet couch beneath the forest window , ‘ also I do think that one of us ought to stay with Fergus . ’ |
| 2 | Jessica I do think that that |
| 3 | Any exhibition is worth going looking at and thinking about , but I do think that that is an extraordinarily bad exhibition . |
| 4 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 5 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 6 | ‘ I do think that this is a very important issue for us in politics . |
| 7 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 8 | And I just want to repeat that I do think that some of the writing that 's come out of it has saved women 's lives . |
| 9 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 10 | legitimate to think that how that they did think that this was a short-term goal in order to achieve their long-term objectives . |
| 11 | However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition : |
| 12 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
| 13 | I can not profess to know how successful , or otherwise , the mystic 's attempts at transcendence may prove , but I do know that all the anorexic is capable of transcending are her own immediate difficulties and that , in most cases , this achievement is comparatively short-lived . |
| 14 | I do need , er , I do know that that the conflict between government , local government , the voluntary sector and all others who have an interest , can be quite prodigious , and the ways to resource can be also , quite considerable , and the whole thing does need to be debated and sorted out . |
| 15 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |
| 16 | I do know that some of my colleagues tried but you will not read about that in the newspaper clippings of the period . |
| 17 | But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac . |
| 18 | Mr Taylor says it would release six constables for other duties and told the committee : ‘ We do know that some forces have undergone civilianisation of these posts . |
| 19 | We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period . |
| 20 | Having said that , we do know that large amounts of lead are harmful . |
| 21 | I do know that this is a very fine yarn ( hand knitters are pleased to call it ‘ one-ply ’ ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't even know his name but she did know that this time she was IN LOVE ! |
| 24 | Whilst we did consider that this site could be developed with a single storey dwelling without seriously affecting the amenities of the village , we were not aware of the strength of local feeling against any development on this site . |
| 25 | They did feel that increased participation by subordinates may be a more effective way of motivating people but that time limitations made this impossible . |
| 26 | They do show that primary qualities , as we experience them , are on an equal footing with secondary qualities , and are simply perceptions or ideas in the mind . |
| 27 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 28 | ‘ I do feel that financial managers have done themselves a disservice by just giving the numbers — you have to stop , take the managers through them and be an integral part of the operation . ’ |
| 29 | I run the risk of sounding patronising here , but I do feel that this is a point worth making . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |