Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , it does not easily take into consideration key interests in housing such as absentee landlords letting as a business . |
| 2 | Of course , if one has the belief one would indeed be prepared to say that it does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life , but that is not what one is saying here and now . |
| 3 | By suggesting what that contribution might be we shall show that it does not yet figure in the common PGCE topics and secondly that there is a kind of linguistic knowledge which is specifically appropriate to beginning language teachers . |
| 4 | It does not even occur to the reader that the baby might have cried one year in Singapore and be picked up by its mother a year later in Aden . |
| 5 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
| 6 | From the premises a > b and b> c , it does not simply happen to be the case that a> c . |
| 7 | Indeed , one of the attractions of Madeira is that it does not outwardly appear to be specifically geared to tourism . |
| 8 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 9 | It does not just refer to ‘ sharp business practices ’ and people making slightly greater profits than they should . |
| 10 | Even if the latter is true , it does not automatically translate into increases in higher level educational streams ; in some countries the main growth at the 16–19 stage has been not in the pre-academic general streams , but in the intermediate ‘ technical ’ ones ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 11 | Network Equipment Technologies Inc , Redwood City , California is to buy the 20% of its Adaptive Corp affiliate that it does not already own for about $1.5m in cash and 600,000 new shares . |
| 12 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 13 | Military expenditure is seen as dysfunctional for the overall performance of the economy because it does not directly contribute to the balance of payments . |
| 14 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
| 15 | So , while product development has been impressive , and confirms a certain level of re-investment , it does not usually lead to development of medium-sized businesses with tangible assets . |
| 16 | In the heat of the moment it does not usually look as if there is anything to be done about the heat . |
| 17 | Also it does not usually penetrate through the enamel and into the dentine , so that the corners of the teeth are rounded and the salient angles flattened . |
| 18 | ‘ It does not hit the headlines ; it does not readily rise to the top of any politician 's list of immediate concerns , ’ says Sir Eric . |
| 19 | However it does not always go by size but depends on the subject , as Foujita 's young girls cost much more , and the year in which it was painted makes a difference in price . |
| 20 | As counselling proceeds it does not always continue to be the sympathetic process of listening , support and approval . |
| 21 | In other words , the effects of government expenditure on private profit is a far more complicated process than Bacon and Eltis imply and it does not always work to the detriment of private capital and private profit . |
| 22 | It does not always work like that , for they can lead to real difficulties in study , and sometimes to pastoral problems . |
| 23 | To return to crack propagation in brittle solids , it does not really matter for our present purposes whether fracture is initiated by a dynamic blow or by a static load . |
| 24 | It does not really matter for our purposes what the variable is . |
| 25 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 26 | Keeping staff to a minimum and paying them very little obviously reduces costs , but it does not necessarily lead to good quality care . |
| 27 | My diagnosis of the increased gap between the participants implied by the Sidneian constellation is strengthened by Lyons 's argument that ‘ whereas first and second person are the positive members of the category of person , third person is essentially a negative notion ’ , because ‘ it does not necessarily refer to participants in the situation of utterance ’ . |
| 28 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |
| 29 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |
| 30 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |