Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 2 | It needs Latin stomach to do it . |
| 3 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 4 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 5 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 6 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 7 | It has regular people doing their own thing . |
| 8 | Today the functions of a local authority almost invariably involve the expenditure of money and it is clearly established that a local authority may not spend money unless it has statutory authority to do so . |
| 9 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 10 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 11 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 12 | It says these herbs do turn up in some food supplement . |
| 13 | It requires little research to do so , largely because West German specialists and journalists rushed across the frontier and came back gasping out tales of air pollution four times worse than West Germany 's , of mercury levels in the Elbe that were 250 times EC limits , of forests where 40 per cent of the trees are sick . |
| 14 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 15 | It takes 12 Britons to do the work of nine Germans or of eight Japanese , which suggests that a good many more redundancies will have to be declared before British industry is able to compete on the world markets . |
| 16 | How long would it take four men to do it ? |
| 17 | It seems that fanaticism does not need to be fuelled by credulity , at least about dreaming . |
| 18 | Lack of childcare facilities not only blocks a job , even if there were one , it prevents single parents doing anything else to prepare themselves for a changing job market . |
| 19 | It went full belt did n't it Dave ? |
| 20 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 21 | It took some courage to do so . |
| 22 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 23 | This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly . |