Example sentences of "who do [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet 95 per cent of diets fail , and among the 5 per cent of women who do achieve permanent weight-loss , many have developed serious eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia . |
2 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
3 | The solution for male doctors who do rough pelvic exams on women might begin in medical schools , where each male student would be placed in stirrups and a strange female MD would come and ‘ squeeze his balls and leave without saying a word ’ . |
4 | While in former years parents were encouraged to stay together for the sake of their children , more recently emphasis has been put on the damage done to children by parents who do stay married but are in constant conflict . |
5 | Those people who do transgress social and sexual boundaries in loving fat women may punish their fat lover with ambivalence ( for example , by wanting to be with them privately but not in public ) . |
6 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
7 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
8 | For those who do become anxious , the problem arises the next time he wants to make love . |
9 | How can those women who do become conscious of their predicament act to change their situation ? |
10 | For housewives who do receive appreciative comments from husbands , this positive reward is often conditional , and therefore hardly an improvement on a situation in which only failure is referred to : |
11 | The really dangerous scientists are those who do have political and moral ideas and set out to use their science to further their own ideological ends . |
12 | Third , those who do have long-term relationships with particular organizations , whether these relationships are exclusive or not , enjoy a considerable level of informal protection . |
13 | Women like Sarah , on the other hand , who do have high expectations of marriage , are likely to be sufficiently disillusioned by the reality of wedded bliss not to want to repeat the experience . |
14 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |