Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 2 | Certain it is , in stormy weather , from any point of the compass you will have a blow on Stormy Hill , and it does further seem as if it were tenanted by those who in the voyage of life have weathered storms quite as real , — long sickness , pinching poverty , and mayhap , in some cases , that very terrible malady when it becomes chronic , a disinclination to regular work ; and their present lot is one of storms , — few comforts and short allowance even of the needs of life within doors , and the wintry blasts without ; and failing health and increasing age give small prospect of much more of the sunshine or fewer of the blasts on this side of the dark River Jordan . |
| 3 | Painting by this method I am told requires great patience , and it does indeed take time to achieve such detail . |
| 4 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 5 | And it does always appear possible to translate from one language to another even if circumlocution is required . |
| 6 | Of course , if you can afford full double-glazing then you have no problems , and it does actually add value to a property , providing it is in a style sympathetic to the house itself . |
| 7 | This time she was marrying a millionaire , and it had better last . |
| 8 | ‘ And it had better start , ’ she muttered . |
| 9 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 10 | In many ways , McLaren was an early , if not the first , prototype of the modern racing team , and it did indeed seem as though Emerson fitted in very well . |
| 11 | But it had better work . ’ |
| 12 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 13 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 14 | The new decision does not affect the artist 's ownership of the work of art itself , but it does effectively strip him or her of control over how , when and where it may be reproduced . |
| 15 | In view of the stringent financial requirements imposed on BR by the government this may be a little unfair but it does neatly encapsulate the views of many commentators looking at the likely impact of the Tunnel on the South East after 1993 . |
| 16 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 17 | But it does largely bear out what David Murray likes to remind Graeme Souness Rangers are the most powerful club in Britain at the moment and can play quality football . |
| 18 | Again , that does n't get us anywhere at the moment , but it does slightly bear out the possibility that the man was a foreigner which would explain our total failure so far to get him identified . " |
| 19 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 20 | It may be that such moves towards a willingness to detach comment from political allegiance and dogma is a passing fad but it does also suggest that many journalists are uneasy about blind , albeit volunteered , political commitment . |
| 21 | So I think that there 's , I welcome , you know , the Social Chapter on that basis , but it does clearly say , and prescribe , er something that can only be universally applied , and if there are , there is need , there is need , er there is scope for that , with delegation through particular industries , particular circumstances . |
| 22 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 23 | The IDB may be desperate to lower the unemployment rate — currently around 14% and the worst in the UK — but it does actually have advantages . |
| 24 | It 's a bit dull , but it does actually provide you with a level of income that you want . |
| 25 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 26 | We said that this in no way lessens the grief , but it does perhaps help us prepare for the event . |
| 27 | The video does not have a lot to say about stress brought about by sexual harassment but it does rightly emphasise the importance of professional workers leaving their personal problems at home . |
| 28 | Because of this , the system is rarely used now , but it does still exist in some older houses . |
| 29 | I think you maintain an excellent record in that but it does still come back to getting people into the theatre . |
| 30 | Cherishing port as a special occasion drink was certainly flattering , but it did rather inhibit sales . |