Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 2 | This healthy contribution of commercial interests , which , after all , have experience and technical know-how which is often in short supply in ministries , deserves more recognition than it has received , especially since it does much to offset the squalid tale of the involvement by one British company at this time in corrupt monopoly state publishing ventures during the Obote and Nkrumah governments in Uganda and Ghana . |
| 3 | It would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage . ’ |
| 4 | But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group . |
| 5 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 6 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 7 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 8 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 9 | and then when it does that when the solenoid comes back |
| 10 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 11 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |