Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 2 | But it did summon up the delicious image of the straitlaced reporter gingerly dipping his toe , notebook in hand , into the showbiz underworld . |
| 3 | In the standard recovery , the full opposite rudder is always applied first , and if it does slow down the rotation , the nose of the glider will automatically drop , helping to unstall the wings . |
| 4 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 5 | For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so . |
| 6 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 7 | This is an over-simple account , but it does bring out the essential point that , at some stage , substances have to be transported across a membrane against a concentration gradient . |
| 8 | ‘ It does break down the tyranny of the Madonna body . |
| 9 | In doing so , it does point out the importance of the Gulf oil reserves , yet it strangely fails to relate this to the massive forces available to Bush through the presence of US central command in the Middle East . |
| 10 | While this does not rule out the risk of a change of regime there , it does cut down the danger of a simple change of heart by the existing government . |
| 11 | Though , I suppose , in the end it does thin out the population . ’ |
| 12 | Although the addition of fibres is a fairly effective way of making these materials tough it does put up the cost of manufacture and it also restricts the number of applications for which they are suitable . |