Example sentences of "it does [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That such conclusions have nevertheless been drawn tells us more about the strength of the anti-democratic tradition in European thought than it does about Athenian democracy . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 3 | Montague generation , proceeding as it does through all categories of expression simultaneously , promises recognition of the conversational integrity of parts of speech in a way that sentence-focussed Chomskian grammar does not . |
| 4 | For almost half that length , through northern Sudan and all of Egypt , it is joined by no tributary , flowing as it does through pure desert . |
| 5 | Mortgage-lending accounts for the bulk of the Halifax 's business , as it does at other building societies ( thrifts ) . |
| 6 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 7 | Such a belief , resting as it does on vast assumptions about the nature of state power , is fraught with great risks and disappointments . |
| 8 | It perceives the full complexity of the protection task , encroaching as it does on private family territory with an uncertain knowledge base and poor predictive instruments ; and it deplores the hostile climate in which such delicate work must be carried through . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |
| 10 | It does with Labour parties |
| 11 | Possibly but i i if , if you say it is a , i it 's an honest government and er er the tax collection is , is straightforward and honest , the government is then deciding what it does with that tax revenue . |
| 12 | So , I write , as well as this diary , some of my new novel ( a killer , this one , dealing as it does with post-Holocaust survivors ' guilt ; why do I set myself these agonies ? ) and start pinch-hitting for Gloria Hunniford on Radio Two . |
| 13 | fears about not bonding with or loving the child immediately — this can take some time , as it does with some birth parents . |
| 14 | It does for two sets of reasons . |
| 15 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 16 | Unusual in many ways-including its gentle liquidy texture — Turnaround Cream is exceptional in what it does for oily skins . |
| 17 | ( For example , in channel flow with no variation of mean quantities in the x-direction , τ varies linearly across the channel as it does for laminar motion — the first integral of eqn ( 2.6 ) . ) |
| 18 | Which it does for several years . |
| 19 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 20 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 21 | Section 17 applies to ascertained goods in exactly the same way as it does to specific goods . |
| 22 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 23 | What it does to that input may not be susceptible to description in psychological terms . |
| 24 | This applies as much to external users of the information as it does to internal users . |
| 25 | This facility applies as much , if not more to industrial and commercial buyers as it does to individual consumers . |
| 26 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
| 27 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 28 | If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them . |
| 29 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 30 | THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI share price responds better these days to gossip and innuendo than it does to hard fact . |