Example sentences of "what it [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government can do what it likes with such sites and protests are too small to take into calculation . |
| 2 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 3 | What it does to that input may not be susceptible to description in psychological terms . |
| 4 | If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them . |
| 5 | Possibly but i i if , if you say it is a , i it 's an honest government and er er the tax collection is , is straightforward and honest , the government is then deciding what it does with that tax revenue . |
| 6 | Unusual in many ways-including its gentle liquidy texture — Turnaround Cream is exceptional in what it does for oily skins . |
| 7 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 8 | So , whatever we do in training the horse , we have to teach on both sides : what it learns for one side , it will not automatically accept for the other . |
| 9 | The relationship between professionals and the state is also changing , as government imposes a more entrepreneurial and competitive pattern on what it perceives as genteel cartels . |
| 10 | ‘ Les has got what it takes for international football . |
| 11 | The ‘ authors of the ‘ neutralisation ’ idea ’ were accused of trying to decide the Afghan people 's fate for them ‘ without asking the government of that country what its position is and what it thinks on this score ’ . |
| 12 | happening in our time but , but and you think of what it says in Two Timothy with the |
| 13 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 14 | What appears to work within the carefully structured world of the article seems to have a dubiously partial relation to what it represents about Balinese life as a whole . |
| 15 | Local government is on the verge of collapse , but who gives a damn on the Conservative Benches about that and what it means for local government services ? |
| 16 | Tell me what it means in ordinary words . ’ |
| 17 | This sounds all very sensible until you realize what it means in human terms . |
| 18 | The ‘ gulf … between the formal structures and machinery of government of the unions and the rank-and-file membership ’ , combined with traditional union hostility towards what it sees as parallel organisation , is a major cause of the current crisis of trade unionism in particular and the predicament of the working class more generally . |
| 19 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |
| 20 | The West does not like what it sees in that mirror . |
| 21 | I know what it , I know what it costs for that sort of wood . |
| 22 | It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act . |
| 23 | THE Equal Opportunities Commission yesterday failed in its Court of Appeal bid to stop what it views as unlawful discrimination against part-time workers . |
| 24 | If you or one of your sons incline to continue that business you may , I believe , send the same number of boxes here , that you used to send to England ; because England will then send here , for what it wants in that way . |