Example sentences of "it does [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does largely bear out what David Murray likes to remind Graeme Souness Rangers are the most powerful club in Britain at the moment and can play quality football . |
| 2 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 3 | If in the year 2000 the EC is able to pass these tests as well as it does today , but on the altogether higher plane which 1992 implies , the rest of Europe , like the rest of the world , will have cause to be grateful . |
| 4 | Mortality rates were high and many children did not survive into adulthood , whilst adulthood itself implied a much shorter lifespan than it does today . |
| 5 | The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense . |
| 6 | Even in areas with more than 500 people to the acre , murder remained an uncommon crime in Glasgow , as it does today . |
| 7 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 8 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 9 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 10 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 11 | , co-chair of the commission , says that the group 's work will attract ‘ more recognition in the twenty-first century ’ than it does today . |
| 12 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 13 | But the battle to preserve beloved solitudes flared up repeatedly in patches all over the country , precisely as it does today with the threat of new airfields and military training areas . |
| 14 | These great events took place in the year of Our Lord 1620 , and after that time , though there were disturbances from some of the remaining natives , there was no more profound danger , and the colony could begin to nourish as it does today . |
| 15 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 16 | The impact of mortality rates on the early development of the life assurance industry had much greater significance that it does today . |
| 17 | A regular pattern of narrow lanes gave a special character to the Shambles at the eastern edge of the market place , as indeed it does today , and narrow street frontages and long gardens and alleys preserved the medieval property divisions of the old burgage plots . |
| 18 | So that rather than doing what language is supposed to do , that bit of publicity , it does exactly the opposite . |
| 19 | It is just possible that it does exactly the opposite . |
| 20 | A computer is a machine with the attractive property that it does exactly as it is told , yet the outcome of a series of throws of an unbiased dice will produce a random sequence of numbers in which the n + 1th outcome is independent of the nth . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The presence of two tricksters on stage at one and the same time is bound to make for comedy , and so it does here . |
| 23 | It is one of the commonest rhythms to be found but look what it does here . |
| 24 | Maybe where they come from , creeping about at five-thirty a.m. does n't get noticed , but it does here . |
| 25 | When you retrieve the linked file one two three , release three of four , it does n't automatically update itself , and it does here . |
| 26 | We do enough succession planning in C U you know it 's magic you know , you know number two like it 's smashing number two it 's still you know , you know young children , number two has a different connotation to what it does here , but definitely if you are a number two here , it means the same to what a child thinks it is , but I |
| 27 | Well it does here , I do n't know er , I would n't say in some of the parts of Harlow I would get that feeling , but then I am really a country person at heart and I do n't like towns anyway , so I 'm not really the best person to ask , no . |
| 28 | I 'm glad everyone is well at your end , and hope that still applies , as it does here . |
| 29 | It probably gets dark about the same time as it does here . |
| 30 | But it does best in the dappled shade you get under shrubs or woodland trees . |