Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 32 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 33 | In the 1970 election the Tories received the votes of 33.2 per cent of the electorate ( as against 36.4 per cent for Labour in 1966 ) , and although this was enough to give them a safe parliamentary majority , it did not reflect massive and determined popular support for the ‘ Selsdon ’ programme of trade union reform plus ‘ rolling back of the frontiers of government ’ ( the promised direct tax cuts were popular , but that does not prove much ) . |
| 34 | It did not reflect particular animus over Korea but more a feeling of frustration at the setbacks encountered by American policy in the Far East in the previous two years . |
| 35 | Because it did not reflect Scottish Office policy its development went unrecorded , such work being undifferentiated from normal outpatient sessions for statistical purposes . |
| 36 | Although Mr Tomlinson was cautioned , it did not deter other members from following suit for soon after several others were similarly warned . |
| 37 | In any case it did not deter such aims as : |
| 38 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 39 | After two passes through the US National Cancer Institute screen it did not show enough activity to be worth developing further . |
| 40 | But although her explanation made logical sense — it did not make emotional sense . |
| 41 | It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable . |
| 42 | A weakness of the last comprehensive review in Better management , better health was that it did not make explicit the value of development activities . |
| 43 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 44 | It did not make any sales . |
| 45 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 46 | It was warm and unpleasant in her grip , but it did not slide free . |
| 47 | It did not light any new fires for Nicholson and died a quiet death . |
| 48 | It did not feel right , in a project on latter life from the inside , to stay on the outside ourselves . |
| 49 | It did not feel unreasonable to her , that she felt no sorrow . |
| 50 | It did not stop other youths stealing police radios from emergency vehicles to add to the confusion . |
| 51 | Although he announced that there would be ‘ no election results while we 're here ’ , it did not stop much speculation over both the opera and the election . |
| 52 | It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over . |
| 53 | The press reflected the living culture of the people ; it could influence opinion and reinforce existing attitudes but it did not create new forms of entertainment and rarely attempted to alter the habits or loyalties of its readership . |
| 54 | Health Department guidelines supported by the college say that HIV-infected health care workers could conduct a normal delivery as long as it did not involve invasive surgery . |
| 55 | The Labour Party National Executive took care to refute the argument put forward by Cripps at Hull that there was no objection to a Unity Campaign within the Labour Party provided it did not involve other groups . |
| 56 | Dr Tweedy stressed that from the Christian point of view , it was a necessity to look after our God-given body , and there was an obligation to receive treatment if it did not involve undue risk , was not distressing and was practically viable — in other words , ‘ ordinary medical treatment ’ . |
| 57 | It did not appear appropriate , therefore , to develop one global user requirement for the two departments as implied by the FAOR proposals , and , in any event , this would not have been possible without extensive reorganisation of the filing and reference systems as a whole . |
| 58 | It did not cost much to set oneself up as a metalworker . |
| 59 | She ran the massager up the inside of Sally 's thigh again but suddenly it did not hurt any more . |
| 60 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |