Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ? |
| 2 | who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know |
| 3 | Does n't it rather vitiate the nature of Cabinet government , though , if a decision , like the one to remove all exchange control , a very fundamental one for any economy , is in fact worked up , although it goes to full Cabinet in the end , in such a body ? |
| 4 | Just do it gently like that . |
| 5 | Not only does it apparently have the oldest version of the entry for 1020 ( see above ) , but under 1018 it has the death of an Abingdon abbot which is not in C. Other material now in D and E was probably only added after the Abingdon chronicle reached Canterbury . |
| 6 | So does it only seem to be |
| 7 | Will it only learn the song of its own species or will it learn any tape recorded song it may have played to it during its memorizing phase ? |
| 8 | Could it only happen here ? |
| 9 | Does it so restrict as effectively to frustrate the actual development permitted ? |
| 10 | Would it so break the mould of British politics on Thursday if we were to elect a government led by a decent man ? |
| 11 | Long may it so continue . |
| 12 | If not , of course , it fails ; a determined government can ultimately get its way under the Parliament Act procedure , should it so wish . |
| 13 | In a speech to the European Parliament on Jan. 17 he had stated " that there is a place for East Germany in the Community should it so wish " . |
| 14 | Only at the last minute , by forced marches , would it suddenly make for the Channel coast . |
| 15 | If the ‘ egg ’ had existed for all eternity why should it suddenly decide to explode ? |
| 16 | And why , all these years later , would it suddenly matter so much ? ’ |
| 17 | Only in cases involving ethnic groups does it suddenly forget its much advertised opposition to censorship and abandon its crusading zeal to defend the public 's ‘ right to know ’ . |
| 18 | But why does it suddenly feel threatened by the contact of its peaceful owner ? |
| 19 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 20 | However , it is deemed unlikely to reactivate the effort despite contentions that the Intel work taking priority — largely the stuff of Open Desktop 2.0 coming out this summer — could be easily ported to the MIPS platform should it suddenly become a volume player . |
| 21 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 22 | Not only does it perhaps help in the storage of new memories , but dreaming is actively helping us to solve emotional problems . |
| 23 | well he knew we did n't mean to sell it better do some of the ship tomorrow , where 's the , look you had one of the masts out , where is it ? |
| 24 | Well it better have cos it 's right at the back of the kiln at the bottom and I do n't |
| 25 | As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation , may it long continue . |
| 26 | does it literally staple the stomach on the outside or does it |
| 27 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 28 | Might n't it merely give rise to a new , psychologistic , feminist reductionism ? |
| 29 | But does it necessarily make a secondhand diesel a good buy ? |
| 30 | But will it necessarily bring political salvation ? |