Example sentences of "[conj] it do [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chez Gerard boasts that it does the best steak frites in town — and judging by the quality of their thin , crispy and piping hot chips , I 'd be inclined to believe them . |
| 2 | Provided that it did no positive harm , they reckoned , it could spread unchecked under its own impetus . |
| 3 | Mr Davies challenged the usual assumption that the line was a failure , pointing out that it did a good job for the district , particularly in transporting goods in the days before motor transport . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 7 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 8 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 9 | and it does the last thing you 've done times the |
| 10 | Witton to Electric House quarter of an hour , Electric House to Rushmere Heath , quarter of an hour and it did the reverse direction . |
| 11 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 12 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 13 | Salesman : ‘ sorry , guv , you 'll have to take a black Datsun because it does the same job , and is cheaper ! ’ |
| 14 | Although you ca n't shrink CPAV down to an icon while it does a lengthy scan , you can use Alt+Tab to bring other Windows apps to the top of the pile . |
| 15 | I have included this somewhat lengthy account of the inception of the AEP since it does a good deal to explain some of the subsequent strengths and weaknesses of these highly influential programmes . |
| 16 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 17 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 18 | The process which is generated becomes in effect an end in itself , creating as it does a working alliance within which both partners develop a shared approach to identifying and tackling goals and problems . |
| 19 | The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . |
| 20 | Come 1983 and the opening of the Sizewell Inquiry was obviously an emotional moment for Borssele , involving as it does a new sister plant just across the North sea . |
| 21 | British radio works far closer to the texture of ordinary life than that , engaging as it does a deeper sympathy for a shared world of ordinary experience and a total lack of awe . |
| 22 | Unlike the essay on Gide , Nizan finds much that is positive in Friedmann 's analysis , particularly its historical dimension , stressing as it does the abject poverty of the masses and the arbitrary and oppressive power of orthodox religion prior to 1917 . |
| 23 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 24 | Texas Instruments will manufacture the new SuperSparcs as it does the current ones . |
| 25 | Texas Instruments will manufacture the new SuperSparcs as it does the current ones . |
| 26 | The density of the development , achieving as it does the virtual replacement of existing static caravans practically one-for-one , is quite out of proportion with the density of surrounding settlements . |
| 27 | The JDS 's decision and the delay in making it has had serious repercussions for the profession , following as it does the unpopular decision to fine two Polly Peck administrators only £1,000 each ( the maximum possible at the time of the offence ) over conflicts of interest . |
| 28 | Yet the ‘ S ’ is more than capable of flying , kicking out as it does an impressive 145bhp . |
| 29 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 30 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |