Example sentences of "it do [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the strike was called off , amid bitter controversy , it did benefit the Labour Party . |
| 2 | By the time it did satisfy the relevant purpose test ( by having acquired the business ) it had ceased to be close by virtue of the institutions ' investment . |
| 3 | And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike . |
| 4 | The FDA did not ban the drug , but it did find the 0.5 mg dose excessive and had safety concerns about 0.25 mg . |
| 5 | The cabin was surprisingly spacious , even if it did lack the little human touches that made it a home . |
| 6 | Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell , it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary . |
| 7 | The film was a disappointment , although it did win the Golden Gate Award at the 1966 San Francisco Festival , as well as winning Ken Thorne an Oscar for Best Music Adaptation . |
| 8 | On the credit side it did allow the rear axle of the tug to be the full width of the vehicle , giving more stability , as did the final ‘ Wolverton ’ design . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |
| 11 | The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life . |
| 12 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 13 | The price war of autumn 1985 then was little more than an advertising exercise , though it did reduce the general price of holidays for 1986 . |
| 14 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 15 | All the best rocking horses have heads which look to the left or right , and this angling is well worth the small extra trouble since it does give the finished horse a little more ‘ life ’ . |
| 16 | Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself . |
| 17 | It does show the darker side of the band , I suppose . |
| 18 | Why this should be so will be discussed in a moment but it does enable the other observations to be accounted for by a single theory . |
| 19 | However , knowing that the box was a personal gift by one of the Gilberts to the other , it does emphasise the private character of this otherwise magnificent collection . |
| 20 | Having examined Christianity , he recognizes that if it is true ( as it claims to be and as the third level promises to show how it can be seen to be ) , it does provide the necessary answer . |
| 21 | It is not clear why this happened , but it does illustrate the inherent instability in individual practices ' annual referral rates and the consequent difficulties involved in estimating budgets on the basis of past referral patterns . |
| 22 | However , it does have the least number of extras supplied with it , so it is basic in that sense . |
| 23 | While the Kamco only has four free slots ( one 8-bit and three 16-bit ) it does have the real McCoy local bus , VL-bus . |
| 24 | This is of little use when displaying real numbers because the accuracy of the last digit is suspect , but it does allow the full range of integers to be displayed . |
| 25 | As Dr. Mann has argued , it does allow the English courts to provide assistance , in practice under the Hague Convention , in certain fiscal and administrative contexts which would be judged by some other countries to fall outside its scope ; Dr. Mann 's unease at this needs to be balanced against the enormous and considered growth , recounted elsewhere in this book , in international co-operation in such fields . |
| 26 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 27 | The word ‘ maintainable ’ is not ideal , but it does indicate the underlying principle involved , that the company has a capacity to produce wealth over time , and the idea of the earnings number is to reflect that capacity in the year in question . |
| 28 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |