Example sentences of "do it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content .
2 Did it make inessential demands on the teacher ? 12 .
3 Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker .
4 Did it have any signs on it ? ’
5 While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources .
6 Nor does it make any statements about the costs of administrative and managerial change , or of the considerable developments in information technology which will be required to carry out some of its proposals .
7 Why does it lay these things on you ?
8 Not only does it involve large sums of money but , for the vast majority of us , most , if not all , of the money has to be borrowed .
9 So prices have tend to have fallen on world markets for agricultural goods because of support right , and they 've also become a lot more volatile and that , and that is the er the source of the international frustration with erm the common agricultural policy and this is why we 've got agriculture er being introduced into the G A T T. Not only does it impose huge costs on domestic tax payers and consumers , it also in incurs erm a large cost on third country exporters , right now if you think that most of those countries may well be developing countries and agricultural output is their only source of foreign exchange erm then er the policies of the rich countries in the West are erm a actively erm hindering the development prospects of developing countries alright and that may not be the desired intention .
10 Nor — importantly — does it include circumstantial problems to which the individual concerned may have satisfactorily adjusted although the circumstances remain .
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