Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The task is enlarged considerably because several EEC countries do little to enforce wildlife trade laws , whilst trade controls between EEC Member States have been greatly reduced .
2 The first ‘ Hooligans ’ of the 1890s and the ‘ Garotters ’ of the 1860s do little to kindle nostalgia for Victorian city life and culture .
3 By treating the individual rather than the environment , doctors not only do little to prevent illness but also direct attention away from measures which could prove more effective .
4 The finance ministry 's ideas for additional savings do little to inspire confidence .
5 Although materials like clay , dough , aloplast and plasticine have quite different qualities , they do all provide opportunity for mathematical experiences such as moulding the same amount into many different forms , sharing , or comparing size , shape , pattern and texture .
6 Do all have freedom of conscience except the King ? "
7 Nor could Hitler 's speech on ‘ Heroes ’ Memorial Day ’ — the nazified remembrance of the dead of the First World War — on 15 March do much to improve morale .
8 ‘ Oh , thank goodness , it is all settled , dear , I never wanted any trouble , I do so hate trouble . ’
9 Individuals and corporate entities who use inside information do so to make money .
10 Further , it is only in the Fellowships that they will get sufficient identification with other sufferers to be able to see that there is hope for recovery when they do finally admit defeat .
11 I 'm not , we do normally have porridge for breakfast .
12 " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made .
13 Do any offer help to the project manager in motivating the team ?
14 If I can pick up with motion three eight zero which refers to the privatation of sat statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay the C E C would like reference back on this for the very basis that the point is they do still remain State benefits and those who qualify them , for them , are legally entitled to do so .
15 ‘ You do still want fellatio ? ’
16 And they do still have involvement . ’
17 Orthopaedic surgeon Vic Seal at Hereford General says he ca n't operate on patients on his own waiting list , but he continues to operate in other , often less urgent cases , sent to him by health authorities , in Wales , which do still have money to spend .
18 So you do still have hope , of a sort ? ’
19 If you do n't drink alcohol but do usually eat bread , marmite , and vinegar , you should undertake this week , concentrating on those foods .
20 Moreover , Miller and Friesen ( 1986 ) have tested Porter 's position on this point and concluded that differentiators do also employ cost-leadership strategies and that cost leaders do employ differentiation policies .
21 Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is .
22 Even where both spouses do full-time paid work , wives generally do more of the housework , particularly child-care .
23 Some innovative banks and overseas aid departments of OECD governments do sometimes combine finance and aid to provide low-cost financial packages for LDCs ' projects .
24 The vast flocks of gulls at rubbish tips do not normally compete for food resources with other birds , but black-headed gulls do sometimes take advantage of other species ' food-finding skills .
25 In appropriate circumstances , and where the profit margin admits of the taking of such a risk , sellers do sometimes accept liability for economic loss , but then it is usually with some upper limit , or through the operation of a liquidated damages clause .
26 Housewives and volunteer workers , to whom Freidson denies strict market value and hence the status of performing professional work , do sometimes have exchange value granted them : in courts of law household tasks have been assigned wage values and the voluntary sessions ‘ given ’ by consultant physicians and surgeons in the pre-1948 ‘ voluntary hospitals ’ had their work costed when they joined the NHS .
27 The British seeker lost in the German metaphysical jungle , the homecomer from Paris dinner-parties armed with the latest idea , or what he hopes may pass for that , are abiding images for fun-making ; and cultural insularity is a vice to be levelled against the British only by those who do not know them , though those who do sometimes have cause to wish it were true .
28 I do indeed pay tribute to over one thousand two hundred top business and community leaders who serve on our eighty two training and enterprise councils and who indeed is quite right in er earmarking , do a tremendous amount of work on equal opportunities .
29 Such a picture makes the acquisition of deictic terms seem a miracle , and children do indeed have trouble with them ( Tanz , 1980 ) .
30 in In re R. [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 28 , where he said : ‘ Faced with such a substantial consensus of opinion among judges who have to deal with this problem from day to day , I have to conclude that the powers of a wardship judge do indeed include power to consent to medical treatment when the ward has not been asked or has declined .
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