Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 2 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 3 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 4 | There was an estimate of £10:1:0 for enclosing Kiels , with a gate , and they recommended that it be done if it did not exceed |
| 5 | It is very important that the water remains in traps — and , in fact , the Building Regulations are contravened if it does n't . |
| 6 | Even if reasonable steps have been taken to bring the exemption clause to the notice of the buyer , it will not be incorporated if it does not clearly cover the particular transaction in question . |
| 7 | If it had been only philanthropy , would it have felt like it did ? |
| 8 | Dessent ( 1987 ) argues that the differentiated curriculum within a school will always be limited if it does not recognise , reward and value diversity among pupils . |
| 9 | But heat-resistant hotelware , earthenware , crockery and china may be used provided it does not have metallic decoration which will blacken and spoil if used with microwave energy . |
| 10 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 11 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 12 | It would be overshadowed if it did . |
| 13 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 14 | That has been provided because it does not require planning permission . |
| 15 | There is no need for such work to be abandoned because it does not feature explicitly in our programmes of study and , indeed , it would be the opposite of our intention if this were to happen . |
| 16 | It is introduced as a hypothesis which can bring coherence and understanding into this area — a piece of speculation which has continued to worry empiricists ever since it was first developed since it does not seem to be based on facts . |
| 17 | This will never happen if the law of reflection happens to be true , but no logical contradiction would be involved if it did . |
| 18 | A company can not be authorised if it does not comply with these essential standards but each member state can impose additional standards of its own on its own nationals ( in the case of financial resources requirements , for example ) . |
| 19 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 20 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 21 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 22 | The hundreds of millions of pounds it is poised to spend on science and technology at higher levels , including Britain 's IT industry , may be largely wasted if it does not . |
| 23 | But then there are other forms where this description does not suggest itself , or might not be admitted if it did : for example , ballroom dancing , which would be normally set down simply as ‘ a pleasurable social activity ’ ( and as such different from art ? ) . |
| 24 | Currently , the NHS is much criticised because it does not have a comprehensive inventory of its fixed assets . |
| 25 | But most of the time such punishment is wasted because it does not produce repentance or reform . |
| 26 | Thus ministerial responsibility is the main principle moulding the structure and outlook of the senior civil service and it is retained because it does much to reinforce the special position and powers both of ministers and of civil servants . |
| 27 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 28 | The straight line method was rejected as it does not reflect the relationship between finance costs and the amount outstanding . |
| 29 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 30 | He says that the circumstance might have existed as it did , the other events and conditions in the universe might have been as they were , and there might have been no smell . |