Example sentences of "does [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 2 | The gentleman does prefer a blond ! |
| 3 | A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression . |
| 4 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 5 | Tolerance does not blind a man to the imperfections or faults of a religion , nor does it blur the distinction between religion and irreligion , but it does deliver a man from fanaticism with regard to his own faith . |
| 6 | Barker 's drama does deliver a message even simpler than his point about the importance of the national soul . |
| 7 | In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance . |
| 8 | When he does want a pause , Charpentier gives very specific instructions such as ‘ Suivez apres une petite pause ’ ( ‘ Continue after a brief pause ’ ) . |
| 9 | But the 49-year-old does want a place on the board so he can invest a reported £8million . |
| 10 | Souness really does want a team of raging psychopaths — Dicks is a right evil bastard , Ruddock and Burrows have just gained a soul mate . |
| 11 | . And er it does make a bit of continuity . |
| 12 | The West will face some difficult decisions if Mr Gorbachev really does make a dash for economic freedom . |
| 13 | If she does make a noise you probably wo n't shoot her , and anyway there 's a chance she could n't make enough of a noise to be heard outside the front door ; it 's a big house and although there are a lot of hard , sound-reflective surfaces in it , you 're not convinced a scream would make it all the way to whoever 's outside , either down the stairwell or through the double-glazed balcony windows . |
| 14 | But it 's true , it does make a noise . |
| 15 | A partner who does make a profit through such competition may be required to forfeit such profit and pay the profit over to the partnership . |
| 16 | Siann , in a recent study Accounting for Aggression which gives an excellent overview of existing theories and positions , does make a distinction between aggression and violence . |
| 17 | He does make a lot of dust . |
| 18 | It does make a lot of |
| 19 | Under the television lights does make a lot of difference , but when he knows it 's a big occasion , he can produce the goods when it matters , and there are n't too many of those . |
| 20 | It does make a sort of sense : everyone must be born and die , but how many general directors nowadays last even a respectable fraction of 20 years ? |
| 21 | When this happens the authoritative directive does make a difference . |
| 22 | The more detailed analysis presented here therefore strongly suggests that the Home Support Project does make a difference . |
| 23 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |
| 24 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 25 | Erm if I put two times brackets three add six it does make a difference . |
| 26 | The short answer is that in many countries the fact that there is a Constitution does make a difference . |
| 27 | With his leg and one thing and another it does make a difference having a ‘ phone … |
| 28 | It does make a difference — red wine and an airbed . |
| 29 | Yes , I 'd argue that it does make a difference , because we are announcing the fact that er we are coming along to possibly alert somebody er that we were coming into a building and then hence we encounter even more problems . |
| 30 | Any state has limitations on how it can behave , they 're partly geographical , it does make a difference whether you 're an island or whether you 've got no coastline at all . |