Example sentences of "it do [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 2 | This did not necessarily mean that the churches opposed alleviation of pain , but it did mean that the ministrations of the pastor were much more important than those of the physician , and those of the latter should not be permitted to interfere with the spiritual task of the former . |
| 3 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 4 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 5 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 6 | Well , occasionally , it did happen that a shortage of male Jews was evident . |
| 7 | Although similar requisitions were carried out on treasures in museums , it did seem that the state had finally decided to test the power of the Orthodox Church on a socially explosive question . |
| 8 | It did seem that the mother 's intrusion in quarrels led to more conflict over the longer term . |
| 9 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 10 | Although it proposed no major institutional changes , apart from greater co-operation between colleges of education , universities and polytechnics , it did recommend that the colleges should broaden their base by offering other courses alongside teacher-training , notably the two-year Diploma of Higher Education ( Dip.HE ) , a development which is discussed in detail later in this chapter . |
| 11 | Assuming the tribunal would not be so careless as to make such an oversight , it is submitted that if it did consider that the words ’ conduct of the employee ‘ in Sec 24 of the Industrial Relations Act , 1971 ( now Schedule 1 Para 6 ( 2 ) of the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act ) were impliedly qualified by something like ‘ in the course of his employment ’ , it was quite wrong . |
| 12 | As can be seen , these are all fairly small , and in practice the lack of asset divisibility is not a major problem , although it does mean that a completely riskless arbitrage transaction may be impossible . |
| 13 | Whilst these are certainly legitimate concerns , it does mean that a private customer is deprived of the extra flexibility of the OTC market with its ability to tailor the maturity and other critical terms of the contract to a customer 's exact needs . |
| 14 | This exciting and popular event raises a considerable amount of money for conservation work at Clumber , but it does mean that the park will be closed that day to visitors ( including National Trust members ) , except for those spectators purchasing tickets to watch the rally . |
| 15 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 16 | But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it . |
| 17 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 18 | However it does mean that the additional information can be removed from the look-up tree , which in turn means that a compression method can now be applied to the tree , such as utilising a directed acyclic word graph ( section 3.2.5 and section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 19 | This is all very limiting for the pilot but it does mean that the investigator is able to know exactly what the pilot is , or should be , doing at any stage in the flight . |
| 20 | But it does mean that the particular conceptions of science held by its pioneers were often informed by theological and metaphysical beliefs . |
| 21 | The presence of this free rider problem does not mean that no resources will be devoted to shareholder monitoring behaviour , but it does mean that the resources devoted will be sub-optimal from the viewpoint of shareholders as a group . |
| 22 | This does not necessarily mean that the customer is always right , but it does mean that the customer forms the starting point for the organization 's corporate strategy . |
| 23 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 24 | It does mean that the way in which the case has been handled , the way in which it 's been approached , the cooperation between various departments in a particular office , has been done properly , and if the client has the opportunity of winning , he will win and not lose by sloppy work in his solicitor 's office . |
| 25 | This is , of course , a much shorter period than that represented in Figure 11.1 , but it does show that the growth of the real money stock has been consistently faster than the growth of real GDP . |
| 26 | And I think it does show that the Greens are continuing to set the political agenda . |
| 27 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 28 | However , it does suggest that the issue of how and why children come to be labelled as abused is a problem in its own right , and one which may well be prior to questions of cause and control . |
| 29 | It does suggest that the only information the discourse analyst has access to is that contained in the text of a discourse fragment . |
| 30 | This is not to argue that prior activation of one hemisphere can not introduce a bias towards the opposite ear ( Nachson , 1973 ; Morais and Landercy , 1977 ) but it does suggest that the effect of activation may be to engage the processing mechanisms of a particular hemisphere rather than upset a hemispheric balance of attention . |