Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But today 's demonstration did n't quite go to plan . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the industry did not yet look on training as an accepted way of improving production , income , living standards , etc . |
| 3 | Euripides , the intellectual Euripides , was the " poet of Socratic rationalism " and tragedy did not simply die after him : it was " Socratism " in its Euripidean embodiment that killed it , although this destructive tendency preceded Socrates himself and affected even Sophocles . |
| 4 | Andrew Eliel , editor of the guide , said the award had been launched because it was felt the best chef did not necessarily work in the best restaurant . |
| 5 | If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 . |
| 6 | First of all , Climber & Hill Walker readers must be wondering what he was so annoyed about , because the review did not actually appear in this magazine but its sister publication The Great Outdoors . |
| 7 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 8 | The boy did n't even glance at the folded franc notes . |
| 9 | The young and feisty Armour did n't much care for what she thought of as the anglicised overlay of GSA at that time . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ he asked , hoping that her mood did n't suddenly break into hysteria . |
| 11 | The perceptions of the staff questioned about involvement in school finance decision-making did not often agree with that of the heads . |
| 12 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 13 | Although the unanimity of rural enthusiasm for army policies is open to question , it is clear that the rural community did not really turn to the left in its search for a solution to its problems . |
| 14 | A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech . |
| 15 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 16 | The vendor did n't even look for remuneration . |
| 17 | The arrival of a railway in a town did not always lead to expansion . |
| 18 | Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view . |
| 19 | ‘ I ai n't yer old sweet'eart , ’ said Mrs Beavis , whose naturally sunny beam did not always shine for everyone , ‘ and I 'appen to be keepin' me hands to meself . ’ |
| 20 | While the process did not necessarily proceed without negotiation and iteration between stages , the planning literature emphasized the general logic of the need to integrate short-term budgets with long-term planning . |
| 21 | When they grew poor they had to be shut away in an old people 's home , because poverty did n't officially exist in the new state . |
| 22 | I once bought a mill house from a family in Cumbria , and during my survey found that a part of the land they were selling did not legally belong to them since it was not on the original conveyance from the lord of the manor . |
| 23 | But the same level of tolerance did not always extend to her staff , who may have fallen short of her high standards or overstepped the bounds of power . |
| 24 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 25 | The role of deputy head did not always feature in this process of management review . |
| 26 | What it seems to mean is that evolution did not normally proceed by a process of gradual change of one species into another over long periods of time . |
| 27 | The other major cause of death in our trial was measles , in which the ratio of the mortality rates was 0.82 , though this ratio did not significantly differ from 1.0 . |
| 28 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 29 | erm I , in m I in my opinion that the Communist Party aim of increasing productivity was n't actually achieved and because of all these problems erm could that their policy of favour of erm promoting rich peasant economy did n't significantly contribute to industrialization erm I mean there was a little bit of an economic growth but that it was n't particularly significant . |
| 30 | She stumbled over the words , muttered and blushed , her duplicity and stupidity so abundantly clear to her that she was surprised that the charming young woman did not immediately leap to her feet , denounce her as an impostor and throw her out onto the street again . |