Example sentences of "do [verb] a difference [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , " parties do make a difference in the way Britain is governed … [ but ] the differences in office between one party and another are less likely to arise from contrasting intentions than from the exigencies of government " . |
| 2 | The domestic situation in which things take place , they are really very different and you can start to draw up categories , of course , of countries , small big maybe , small medium big democratic non-democratic , er military dictatorships civilian government erm and so on , so there are whole series of categories of governments that you can draw up and you can say well these do make a difference in the way erm foreign policy is created . |
| 3 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the Spanish Civil War did make a difference for the conference condemned the non-intervention policy adopted by the major powers , for it was being flouted by Italians , Germans and Russians , and recommended that the Spanish republican government should be allowed to buy arms . |
| 5 | But I did make it and the colour did make a difference in a way I did n't expect . |
| 6 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |
| 7 | One very important datum for the answer is exactly the fact that , as users of the language , we do recognize a difference between sentences like ( 63 ) and ( 64 ) ; intuitively we are aware that if [ E P ] is an intensional entity in ( 64 ) , then it is an entity in some different way from the subject of ( 63 ) . |
| 8 | We do have a difference in vacancies . |
| 9 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |