Example sentences of "they do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many retired people expect to slow down , expect their health to deteriorate ; in fact , their expectations are so low they do little to make their lives full and interesting . |
| 2 | Modest measures to help the long-term unemployed back to work are laudable in all but their modesty ; they do little to make the employed feel more secure . |
| 3 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
| 4 | They do nice work . |
| 5 | But while the latter may not have a material impact on competition , they do nevertheless contribute to an incremental drift of decision-making power to a steadily diminishing number of companies . |
| 6 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 7 | We should not treat the daemons as foreign implants , yet they do nevertheless have what Nilsson describes as an ‘ antithetic ’ quality compared with the rest of the Minoan pantheon . |
| 8 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 9 | Dependent nomic conditionals , as can be anticipated , in fact have the logical feature that they do simply entail their contrapositives . |
| 10 | Well they will do , cos they do here do n't they ? |
| 11 | They do however differ greatly in their components : the kind of subelements likely to appear within the divisions of a dictionary ( for example ) will be entirely different from those likely to appear within the divisions of a letter or a novel . |
| 12 | They do however share one thing in common , they are all quality products , and have always been high in the list of best selling computer games on all hardware formats . |
| 13 | And when they do eventually make it , they 're really , really good . ’ |
| 14 | As a result , impulses might be suppressed for so long that when they do eventually erupt , they can seem destructive . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , they do rather want to take in a show , but we 'll have to see what 's open . |
| 16 | Sunderland have lost their last five League matches , and there is a growing danger that the FA Cup finalists might find themselves in deep relegation trouble if they do no concentrate on the matter in hand Second Division survival . |
| 17 | Their main source of funds are banks , but they do also receive deposits from the general public . |
| 18 | By shopping around and comparing prices it is often possible to save quite a bit of money , but even so , dry mixes always work out more expensive than mixing your own , although they do also cut out the preliminary stages of the mixing process . |
| 19 | They do also help to achieve and sustain rapport and stimulate the respondent 's thinking . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , there are significant flaws in the use of such substitutes as Methadone : sufferers from addictive disease will commonly use other drugs including intravenous drugs in addition to their oral Methadone and when they do finally want to end their suffering and come off drugs altogether they commonly find that it is far harder to come off Methadone that to come off heroin . |
| 22 | Mammalian babies , when they do finally emerge into the outside world , still need their mother 's milk to complete the building of their highly complex bodies and they may continue to suckle for years . |
| 23 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 24 | They are about to kill Simon who is their only sign of hope therefore when they do accidentally kill him , the island is almost like hell with no good on it . |
| 25 | The Committee after minute Examination , do recommend Mr Vial as properly qualified for one of the professors — and they do further observe that if the Members of the College coincide in this Opinion , they are ready to investigate the merits of any other Candidate . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ’ said Jane , ‘ they do only live about eight years , you know . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We want local councils to use their muscle to negotiate with developers to ensure wind power stations are only permitted in places where they do least harm to beautiful landscapes and rural communities ’ , said CPRW 's Director , Dr Neil Caldwell . |
| 28 | They kill a very high percentage of their catch immediately , fewer rabbits escape from them and , while killing the rabbit , they do less damage to it . |
| 29 | I he said , he 's an old type chemist he said just mention my name he said he perhaps fix you up with small quantities or try this other place in Wrexham he said they , chemist he said but they do wholesale work as well |
| 30 | They do occasionally assume the role of ‘ self-appointed guardians of the nation 's conscience ’ . |