Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incidence of board theft is thankfully low but it does happen . |
| 2 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 3 | However in this aircraft we have specified a very high degree of re reliability and if you look at the total number of occurrences for each piece of equipment that are going to require maintenance , it 's so low that it does n't justify the provision of maintenance facilities on every base . |
| 4 | The case of " you know what I mean " is especially interesting because it does not fall into any of the traditional categories of lexis , grammar or phonology . |
| 5 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 6 | If she is lucky she may find that at least a few children appreciate that ( 4 ) makes for a better drama game than ( 3 ) , and that ( 1 ) is so bland that it does n't feel like a game at all ! |
| 7 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 8 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 9 | And Henry Fonda 's Tom Joad is so human that it does not seem like acting . |
| 10 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 11 | The idea is perhaps implausible because it does not explain why ageing is associated with pathological changes , which would have been the ancestral state under Hamilton 's theory . |
| 12 | This , too , is entirely reasonable but it does require that attention be paid to compatibilities of systems so that future system integration remains possible . |
| 13 | One thing is certain : to the head , the manager or education officer in school , the official syllabus often appears far less important than it does to the curriculum committee or the outside observer . |
| 14 | This is so evident that it does not require illustration . |
| 15 | The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate . |
| 16 | Sometimes , indeed , the injunction will be sought following a series of convictions for an offence which carries a financial penalty so small that it does not deter further infringements . |
| 17 | As I say , I ca n't remember anything , but I 'm told that I did seem to enjoy annoying Old Saul , the bandy-legged and ancient white bulldog my father kept — I 'm told — because it was so ugly and it did n't like women . |
| 18 | Robyn noticed every detail in a fraction of a second , registered the thought that he looked so wonderful that it did n't bear thinking about , and then she asked , with deliberate bluntness , ‘ What do you want ? ’ |
| 19 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 20 | In fact the report was so useless that it did more damage than had Mitterand kept silent . |
| 21 | ‘ I was so disappointed when it did n't work out . |
| 22 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 23 | There is a pouched mouse in Australia , though in this case the resemblance is not so close and it does not make its living in quite the same way . |
| 24 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 25 | Its view of corporate governance is rather limited and it does not properly address corporate governance as the network of accountability relationships that exists between stakeholders in a company . |
| 26 | It is just possible that it does exactly the opposite . |
| 27 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 28 | In view of the stringent financial requirements imposed on BR by the government this may be a little unfair but it does neatly encapsulate the views of many commentators looking at the likely impact of the Tunnel on the South East after 1993 . |
| 29 | However , as a rough guide , it feels slightly more Gibson-like than it does Fenderish , if that helps . |
| 30 | It 's still disturbing but it does have a certain grandeur . |