Example sentences of "it do [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly actually on a on a point on body piercing for people who have n't had anything pierced and you should everybody should have if you go and have it done during the cold weather it 's better . |
| 2 | ‘ What we all want to find out I suppose : who killed Paul Gray and was it done with the regimental sword from the Infantry chapel ? ’ |
| 3 | Is it to do with the syntactic structure or to the way in which this structure is lexically manifested ? |
| 4 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 5 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 6 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 7 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 8 | He had , however , chosen to publicise his act of departure , and this public disavowal , coinciding as it did with a ferocious government anti-communist crackdown , was inevitably interpreted as a treacherous stab in the back that could not pass unavenged . |
| 9 | As it did with the Combined Transport Bill of Lading , FIATA has proposed to help resolve the uncertainty of the carrier designation in the air waybill . |
| 10 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 11 | Nevertheless , when the occasion demanded it ( as it did during the turbulent period in which he became Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University ) , he showed great courage and firmness — the latter always in the nicest possible way . |
| 12 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 13 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 14 | However , the certificate does not constitute , as it did under the pre-1989 position , conclusive evidence that the charge has been validly registered . |
| 15 | This trade was hardly predictable , relying as it did on the uncertain movements of the pelagic fish shoals , but it always attracted large fleets of foreign vessels , mainly those of the Eastern Block states . |
| 16 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 17 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 18 | Parliament may , as it did in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , lay down criteria governing the use of custody and the length of custodial sentences . |
| 19 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 20 | Even so , it seems that the species survived in the Tigris-Euphrates basin longer than it did in the vast area between there and the Punjab . |
| 21 | When this happened , as it did in the golden age of cotton hand-loom weaving for instance , it could lead to an eventual oversupply of labour and restore the advantage to the hirer . |
| 22 | And as you may be aware that er in , in , in in the local elections this year , in May , the Conservative Party did dramatically well , much better than it did in the general election yeah ? |
| 23 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 24 | This is particularly significant for Marx since it means that the communal principle does not fully come into conflict with the interests of individual constitutive families as it did in the ancient city , a contradiction which ultimately led to further developments . |
| 25 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 26 | It is not to be expected , however , that the killing of the fatted calf for the prodigal son will evoke any more enthusiasm in his virtuous brother than it did in the scriptural parable . |
| 27 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 28 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 29 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |
| 30 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |