Example sentences of "does [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think our figure gives a rather more measure of flexibility than does that of the County Council . |
| 2 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |
| 3 | And to hide the microphone under a table or behind a curtain , while guaranteeing the naturalness of the content , does little for the acoustic quality — and of course raises an issue that President Nixon memorably pioneered . |
| 4 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 5 | Into which group does each of the people in the drawing fit ? |
| 6 | Where does each of the following towns obtain its water supply ? : — Liverpool , Birkenhead , Manchester ? |
| 7 | Revisionist research has credited the revolutionary intelligentsia with a somewhat more modest role than does each of the three traditional schools of thought . |
| 8 | Then work out the answers to these questions : 1 What does each of the questions mean ? 2 What does each of the answers mean ? 3 How do you think the questions and answers were spoken ? 4 Where do you think the speakers come from ? |
| 9 | Then work out the answers to these questions : 1 What does each of the questions mean ? 2 What does each of the answers mean ? 3 How do you think the questions and answers were spoken ? 4 Where do you think the speakers come from ? |
| 10 | Does engaging in the selling of materials directly related to the curriculum conflict with the principle of a free education service at the point of delivery ? |
| 11 | He does this with the aid of a collection of 160 photographs which graphically show the results that may be obtained . |
| 12 | For he sometimes does this on the stairs at his place of work . |
| 13 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 14 | It does this without the use of adhesive or any other kind of fastener , which makes a welcome change from wrestling with the customary bits of plastic , sticky tabs and Velcro . |
| 15 | It does this without the use of adhesive or any other kind of fastener , which makes a welcome change from wrestling with the customary bits of plastic , sticky tabs and Velcro . |
| 16 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 17 | Although Father Christmas also delivers presents to children in Australia , he does this in the middle of summer because December is one of the summer months there . |
| 18 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 19 | Happily this is not a serious drawback and the set is strongly recommended , containing as it does some of the most sensitive and intelligent Fauré playing on CD . ( ) |
| 20 | Wood ( 1962 : 107-8 ) says almost the same thing : to can be omitted after help " only when the " helper " does some of the work , or shares in the activity jointly with the person that is helped " . |
| 21 | the computer-based Stockmaster system does some of the customer 's work for him by maintaining a constant watch on CO2 stock level in his tanks . |
| 22 | But , so , oddly enough , does much of the statistical and purely ‘ factual ’ material which has become more abundant as the state extends its role . |
| 23 | I do n't think it does much for the feel or the looks of the frets , but there you go . |
| 24 | Okay , so what does sixteen to the power a half mean ? |
| 25 | Let's s let's say if we have erm Well what does ten to the minus three mean ? |
| 26 | Okay and what does ten to the power of one hundredth mean ? |
| 27 | Okay and what does ten to the power of one hundredth mean ? |
| 28 | That means we w w what does ten to the three quarters mean ? |
| 29 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 30 | Does any of the officers want to say anything |