Example sentences of "it does [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 2 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 3 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 4 | paper about that Robin Reliant and he 's done it all up and it does hundred mile an hour ! |
| 5 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 6 | The consequent soul-searching often includes as much self-mockery as it does social criticism , and for this reason it is not subversive . |
| 7 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 8 | ( d ) It does valuable work in the scrutiny of delegated legislation including European Secondary Legislation . |
| 9 | Am busy doing near voluntary work for the — if you felt amazingly generous and like joining I 'd accept a cheque for £8 in their favour too — IT does staggering work on a shoestring the size of vanishing silk thread . |
| 10 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |