Example sentences of "it do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration . |
| 2 | What does it do to help these people find common cause with each other ? |
| 3 | What good does it do to knock foreign governments and aid agencies who are at least trying to help ( Keynote and The new missionaries ) ? |
| 4 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 5 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 6 | Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November . |
| 7 | Francis Bacon , writing in 1627 said ‘ The Turks have a pretty art of chambletting paper which is not in use with us ’ , though , in fact , it did reach this country at about that date . |
| 8 | But it did give considerable encouragement to the growth of services , particularly community services , and to the improvement of public understanding of the problems of mental disorder , and it was , accordingly , widely welcomed . |
| 9 | It did manage one win , though , but that was in the back of Jim Clarke 's Lotus 43 . |
| 10 | But it did serve another purpose . |
| 11 | Direction , one felt , was needed , and up to a point , with soloists Neil Black and William Bennett , it did make some impact . |
| 12 | It did show excellent character to bounce back from the start … one plus point from the first half . |
| 13 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 14 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
| 15 | Although the Chicago conference failed to resolve the basic difference in viewpoint between Britain and the USA , it did produce significant achievements . |
| 16 | So at least ran the theory , and , for a time , it did operate that way , very much along the lines of the Athenian polis in its democratic phase . |
| 17 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 18 | Er it 's a matter of speculation as to whether it did play any part . |
| 19 | But it did cultivate good will . " |
| 20 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 21 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 22 | Ascot 's Cesarewitch trial did n't provide many clues for Newmarket , but it did cause top jockeys Pat Eddery and Michael Roberts some anxious moments . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , at the time it did look that way . ’ |
| 24 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 25 | However , studies also showed that if bombing was accompanied by evacuation and the destruction of family ties it did induce emotional problems ; this dual verdict was stressed by the Board of Education after the war , having reviewed the evidence from child guidance clinics . |
| 26 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 27 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
| 28 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 29 | But it did take some time . |
| 30 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |