Example sentences of "does [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit does nothing this turn while the Bosses crack heads together to restore order . |
| 2 | Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance . |
| 3 | He never does them any harm . |
| 4 | Do the sponsors feel that this tawdry display does them any good ? |
| 5 | Madame Gloriana turned away murmuring to herself , ‘ That 's what they all want to know , although I 'm not at all sure if it does them any good . ’ |
| 6 | and Boots own cleansing lotion for my mascara and that 's it , only buy mascara , eye liner and lipstick and blusher and that 's it and it does me six months of the year |
| 7 | DOES MY METABOLIC RATE VARY WHEN I DIET ? |
| 8 | Does my honourable friend agree that one of the reasons this country is so successful at attracting inward investment is because of those lower non-wage labour costs ? |
| 9 | Does my honourable friend agree with Klaus Stratzenburg who is a supervisor with Black and Decker in Lindburg in Germany who when asked to comment as to why he felt that Black and Decker were closing their plant in Germany to move it to Spennymore in County Durham , said it 's simple industry must be flexible , the social chapter is n't . |
| 10 | Q WHY does my two-year-old Arum Lily refuse to flower ? |
| 11 | Why does my good uncle send us to plead for her ? ’ |
| 12 | ( For example , how does my local availability of health care resources compare with that in the source study ? ) |
| 13 | Mr Gill : Given the reluctance of large organisations and bureaucracies to devolve powers to the lower orders , does my hon. Friend consider that for the principle of subsidiarity to be acceptable it will be necessary for a full and detailed prospectus to be issued showing what powers will be devolved to the national Parliaments ? |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the way forward is signposted to other improvements in the health service ? |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it does the cause of racial integration no good at all that our procedures should be abused ? |
| 16 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 17 | Does my hon. Friend accept that opting out , as it is called , is a misnomer because schools which achieve grant-maintained status are opting into a new educational regime of higher morale , better educational opportunities and more money ? |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that Labour 's charter for sport is about more interference , more committees , more regional committees and , most of all , more costs ? |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend accept that much as many of us welcome the sports and arts foundation , we would infinitely prefer to have a national lottery , which would produce far more money for sport and the arts ? |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be regrettable if the objectives of local school management could not be met because of inadequate funding ? |
| 21 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , now that the Conservative party is formally represented in Northern Ireland and will have candidates in the next general election there , we should remove the anomaly whereby Northern Ireland citizens — who are of course British subjects — have to follow the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 22 | Does my hon. Friend agree — unlike the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) — that the Prevention of Terrorism Act is exactly that : a measure to prevent terrorism ? |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the people of Ulster can only benefit in future from a more highly skilled work force ? |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the problem raised by the hon. Member for Bassetlaw ( Mr. Ashton ) is probably the most crucial element in the redundancy programme to which my hon. Friend has referred ? |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ? |
| 26 | Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ? |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that what has happened in East Timor is the very opposite of good governance and that that ought to influence our aid programme to Indonesia ? |
| 28 | How does my hon. Friend think that they square that with their policies of imposing a payroll tax on small businesses and of gaoling small business men who fail to pay a socialist minimum wage ? |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend recall that I was the first Minister to have responsibility for small businesses — even before the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) ? |
| 30 | Does my hon. Friend agree that London is only one of several areas where costs are wildly out of line with the national average — sometimes higher and sometimes lower ? |