Example sentences of "it do [not/n't] [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll eat it for yer , ’ said Mrs Beavis with cheerful understanding , ‘ it do n't do to let good food lie about not eaten . ’ |
| 2 | It do n't want to go down . |
| 3 | Yeah but ah then again why I mean like a lot of people have do n't have actual they have n't got money but they they sort of choose to have money tied up in property , though it do n't mean to say you 're wealthy just because you 've got a big house does it ? |
| 4 | Du n no yeah but it do n't mean to say that there 's a lot come out , it could only be that lot , could n't it ? |
| 5 | that 's alright it do n't hurt to have a bit of peace and quiet |
| 6 | I do n't know , it do n't seem to react to that , that 's a bit , mind you there again there 's only going to be that there is n't it ? |
| 7 | An dose who hav it do n't seem to care a damn , |
| 8 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 9 | It did not refer to study technique but to finding a husband , a potential breadwinner , because realistically speaking , females were increasingly unlikely to obtain satisfactory employment on graduation . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 11 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 12 | All sides — Iran and all parties capable of doing something — can bring pressure to end this tragedy in such a manner as to avoid giving the impression that this was done to make trade or that one side has blackmailed the other into doing something it did not want to do . " |
| 13 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |
| 14 | The TUC 's plans for the part of the economy which it did not want to nationalise were far removed from the anti-trust policy which the coalition was considering . |
| 15 | Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit . |
| 16 | Firstly , said the Government , it did not want to stifle all criticism of the way its policies were carried out . |
| 17 | Hampshire said it did not want to duck its share of the South-east 's demand for housing , but would find land enough in the south of the county in preference to development nearer London . |
| 18 | This should be resisted as the tenant could find itself paying for the costs of an appeal it did not want to pursue . |
| 19 | However , it did not appear to hold any particular significance for him because he merely said , ‘ The name is Silas , Lucy . ’ |
| 20 | In asserting the supremacy of the Moldavian constitution and laws throughout the republic 's territory , and that " laws and other normative acts " would take effect in Moldavia only subject to ratification by the Moldavian Supreme Soviet , it appeared to go further than the Russian and Uzbek sovereignty declarations and to be closer in spirit to the more radical declarations of the Baltic and Transcaucasian republics , since it did not appear to allow for arbitration in the event of conflict with the USSR Constitution and laws . |
| 21 | It did not appear to occur to Arghatun that they might not be able to ride . |
| 22 | For all the initiative , corporateness , political enthusiasm and managerial opportunism of planning for closure , it did not appear to bring in any noteworthy innovation . |
| 23 | The movement had grown in a climate of free enterprise , and while it remained relatively small it did not appear to threaten the capitalist market or private business . |
| 24 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 25 | It did not deserve to live , but we wanted it to live . |
| 26 | The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) said on Sept. 2 that it did not intend to issue " a clean bill of health for Iraq in the nuclear sphere " . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Sawyer announced the appointment of six Cabinet ministers to his interim administration and said that it did not intend to stay in power for more than a year . |
| 28 | But it did not do to use all one 's pieces at once . |
| 29 | It did not purport to deal with all the subject matter of the field and it was believed that : |
| 30 | It did not purport to enlarge the class of persons who might enforce the judgment or order and there was no basis for attributing any such intention or effect . |