Example sentences of "it do this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you really want it done this way , I 'll get it drawn up and sent down for you to sign . |
| 2 | It was just incompetence that I did n't get it done this week . |
| 3 | ‘ How d' you want it done this time ? |
| 4 | So it 's , if you want to get it done this will be one hell of a big car park wo n't it ? |
| 5 | He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ? |
| 6 | How does it do this ? |
| 7 | In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt . |
| 8 | How does it do this assimilating ? |
| 9 | For it to do this , it must have some long-term effect . |
| 10 | Why is it doing this to me ? |
| 11 | In another it sold a part of the whole enterprise by converting the public corporation into Companies Act companies and selling half of the shares : it did this , for example , by reducing its stock in BP from 51 to 46 per cent in 1979 , then to 39 per cent in 1981 , and again to 31.7 per cent in 1984 . |
| 12 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 13 | It did this through ratecapping , a system that allowed central government to dictate rate-calls set by some or all local councils , and by joint boards governing areas such as fire , police and transport , established as a result of the abolition of the metropolitan counties . |
| 14 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 15 | Too often , however , it did this by lecturing its listeners in the manner of a public school housemaster reproving the slackers who let the side down by their want of ‘ team spirit . ’ |
| 16 | It did this time , too . |
| 17 | Three times it did this , then , satisfied , it flashed — electric blue — into the reeds and disappeared . |
| 18 | It did this by proposing four aims concerning knowledge , skills , affective development and the demands of society . |
| 19 | The Tory Party had a clear mission which was to break the power of the unions , and the way that it did this was by using the law . |
| 20 | It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend . |
| 21 | It did this by monitoring business performance and by surveying consumer reactions both before and after the training programme . |
| 22 | It did this partly in support of its application that year for statutory recognition as a clearing house , and partly in response to developments in insolvency law . |
| 23 | It does this extremely efficiently , but if you want to use the tool for conventional drilling and screwdriving , the hammer action must be switched off and you need an SDS adaptor ( Part No A13123 ) which will screw into a ½in chuck with a ½in female thread fitting ( part No . |
| 24 | It does this through sensors which monitor speed and body movement , and this information is passed on to a computer . |
| 25 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 26 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 27 | It does this not only in its narrative preoccupations ( active male protagonist , with woman as victim or sexual object ) but also — and crucially — in its conventions , in the way the camera moves and produces the image on the screen . |
| 28 | It does this through encouraging a favourable internal climate of opinion in which all employees can feel involved with , and understand , the firm 's affairs . |
| 29 | It does this with a strong suck and , since the bait is usually on a hair-rig , the hook is also drawn well into the mouth . |
| 30 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |