Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 2 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 3 | Adjust the height of the fitting so that it does n't obscure your view across the table while you 're eating , but is n't so high that you can look into the shade at the bulb . |
| 4 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 5 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 6 | If we were in fact to promote trickle transfer that would happen a great deal more than it does currently . |
| 7 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 8 | I think I think it gets dark earlier than it does up here for example |
| 9 | Under water , the world of sound signalling takes on an additional significance since sound in water travels much further than light , moving a great deal faster than it does in air . |
| 10 | ‘ It took an awful lot of my powers as Chairman of Academic Review and Resources Committee to steer that course through because it did mean a lot of resource implications that were n't obvious at the beginning . |
| 11 | Teachers can play an important role in helping them to adjust , but since practical and financial arrangements often cause difficulties for parents , teachers need to be sensitive in offering help so that it does not seem intrusive . |
| 12 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 13 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 14 | Mother used some washing soda to try and get the stain out but it did n't work . |
| 15 | No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh . |
| 16 | It is not the finest-grain developer around but it does , at these high dilutions , produce extremely sharp grain and negative images with a real ‘ bite ’ to work from . |
| 17 | The user should rename the file so that it does not exceed the LIFESPAN maximum filename length . |
| 18 | Provide waste management programmes for the safe disposal of waste so that it does not adversely affect the health and safety of employees , the public , or the environment . |
| 19 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 20 | " Yes , you 've made that plain enough and it does n't bother me . " |
| 21 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 22 | When I read in my newspaper that Spurn Head could well tumble into the sea at any moment , given a sufficiently powerful gale , I felt I must visit the place quickly before it did so , before great waves breached its narrowness and destroyed it — yet again . |
| 23 | If you are involved in a nanny share , depending on the financial arrangements , l it may be viewed as a business even if it does not feel like one ! |
| 24 | At the last minute so that it does n't go brown . |
| 25 | But is it possible to sharpen the trial procedure so that it does function as an effective arbiter of the truth value of the police case ? |
| 26 | Oh , I 've got it on my walkman now so it does n't make any difference erm occupation . |
| 27 | ‘ It is more difficult for spinners to grip the ball today because it does not get scuffed like it used to . |
| 28 | This line of reasoning appeared to excite more criticism abroad than it did in France . |
| 29 | last night actually and it did n't exactly help , well , it 's a long trip up here , longer than I expected and I did n't |
| 30 | Then tie your hair back so it does n't get wet or frizzy . |