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

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1 What harm could it do to play this little game another few minutes ?
2 The committee 's general ambivalence probably reflected its membership though it did admit that recent investigations suggested that to some extent investment was going abroad because of the unfavourable economic environment at home .
3 Despite the limitations of the survey it did suggest some clear habitat preferences and population trends .
4 However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead .
5 Egypt , was intense and highly concentrated , it did have some dramatic moments , such as my taxying accident .
6 In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated .
7 This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment .
8 But it does mean some real self-criticism .
9 It does involve some careful circuit-building but anyone who has been following the series and has managed up to now will be able to build this system successfully .
10 Whilst only a short film , it does show some interesting footage of these venerable RAF transport aircraft .
11 Nevertheless , it does contain much revealing information about operatic fees and fascinating insights into the negotiations that surrounded them .
12 While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit .
13 The ritual imagery of the Ring of Minos is nevertheless consistent with what we know of Minoan religious practices and it does offer some additional support for the idea of a sea-shore cult involving both fixed shrines built on the land and portable shrines ferried coastwise by priestesses .
14 They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are .
15 Although it can be argued that the arousal manipulation in their particular study could be operating on the lower portion of the curve , it does appear that numerous studies on vivid and flashbulb memories have suggested that highly emotionally arousing life events are remembered in surprising detail over very considerable retention intervals .
16 Not that Britten 's Prologue is in " sonata-form " or any other nominal academic form ( though it does bear some passing resemblance to the first movement of Sibelius 's Third Symphony , which is in sonata-form ) .
17 It is very good for creativity but it does have some other problems .
18 The feedback model ( i.e. TRACE II ) is closer to the weak interaction type in that it is primarily data driven , rather than hypothesis driven , but it does allow some top-down filling in of gaps , and some correction of errors in the input data .
19 However it does seem that mental models can be developed in the abstract without the need to resort to action , in other words it is possible to learn while sitting passively in a class-room .
20 Although it is possible to interpret ‘ freedom of the press ’ in such a way as to include within it the ‘ freedom ’ to make a political choice and to volunteer one 's support , it does seem that political parties of the left are rarely favoured by newspapers .
21 However , having studied all these reports , it does seem that voluntary organisation involvement is encouraged through national policy guidelines .
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