Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 2 | Parma ham is available ready sliced in small packets , but this is an expensive way to but it , although it does always ensure good , even pieces . |
| 3 | The manual includes some incredibly helpful diagrams , although it does occasionally lapse into the incomprehensible jargon and figures which are common to most printer documentation . |
| 4 | MI6 is supposed to operate only outside Britain although it does occasionally get involved in projects within Britain such as the Crabb affair of 1956 ( see Chapter 3 ) , which was bungled from start to finish . |
| 5 | To expect a sudden conversion to spiritual belief is to expect too much ( although it does sometimes happen ) and fortunately it is completely unnecessary . |
| 6 | Although it does now say on paper what party they are , it never used |
| 7 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 8 | Now it was n't really a back pass although it did actually come off of Greyson . |
| 9 | If it does then move or remove the leaf . |
| 10 | If it does indeed prove to be the case that the GCSE becomes outmoded almost before it has begun , for the reasons discussed in this chapter , this will represent a tragic waste of scarce educational resources . |
| 11 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 12 | The case does not decide that the Secretary of State is obliged to accept the judicial review on tariff ; if it did so decide , I would respectfully disagree . |
| 13 | ‘ [ Handscomb ] does not decide that the Secretary of State is obliged to accept the judicial view on tariff ; if it did so decide , I would respectfully disagree . |
| 14 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 15 | Also I mean , we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then cherry picking it , instead of actually taking the whole , because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been accepted in its entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much er all three of you for coming . |
| 16 | If a general payment is made , the tribunal will have to interpret whether it does actually cover both basic and compensatory awards . |
| 17 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 18 | The thinking in some quarters is that Intel Corp 's Pentium , if and when it does finally arrive , will be priced at $795 for the 60MHz species and $995 for the 66MHz . |
| 19 | When it did finally rush out , the words , ‘ No odds , no odds , ’ came too . |
| 20 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 21 | ‘ Though it does usually tend to balance out over a given 12 month period ’ adds Projects Manager , Mike Doyle , also based in Altrincham . |
| 22 | The shell only needed to hit one of the skaters — though it did indeed need to strike a target and not be wasted , as might easily be the case when fired seemingly without aiming . |
| 23 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |