Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 2 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 3 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 4 | The county court judge ruled that it did not . |
| 5 | Only a few months ago , Neath borough council complained that it did not have enough money for housing . |
| 6 | Exports increased to 69% this time from 64% of total sales last , but Curtis said that it did n't benefit much from the movements in exchange rates . |
| 7 | A spokesman for City Sites said that it did not envisage that the sale would lead to a reduction in rental income over the year . |
| 8 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 9 | It needed a substantial amount of advertising , and the figures suggest that it did n't get it . |
| 10 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 11 | But Washington has not admitted using new types of anti-personnel weapons , although evidence indicates that it did . |
| 12 | The decision may extend to proceedings to enforce a public right brought by the Attorney-General ex officio , and in Attorney-General v. Wright [ 1988 ] 1 W.L.R. 164 , 166G , Hoffmann J. held that it did . |
| 13 | Some firms ' behaviour suggests that it did , but not simply by making them invest more in Japanese factories . |
| 14 | The court held that it did not matter whether the accused thought about dangerousness . |
| 15 | Fisher replied that it did not matter much . |
| 16 | The company had admitted in June that initial results from boreholes drilled in the area showed that it did not have sufficient knowledge of conditions to guarantee safety of the repository . |
| 17 | The librarian observed that it did n't look as though they had been touched before . |
| 18 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |
| 19 | While welcoming his release the Mexican authorities stressed that it did not resolve the issues surrounding his abduction . |
| 20 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 21 | Empirical studies of what happened when a minimum wage was introduced in France show that it did not destroy the economic base of France . |
| 22 | Paragraphs thirteen and fourteen recommended that the Government should immediately buy the parts of the site of the offices shown on the competition plans that it did not already own , along with the block of buildings between King Street and Parliament Street . |
| 23 | A quick phone call confirmed that it did . |
| 24 | The amount being recorded was at the limit of the detector 's sensitivity and the scientists felt that it did n't ( yet ) prove anything one way or the other . |
| 25 | Unhappily , this week 's bloody fiasco in Namibia suggests that it did n't know these things . |
| 26 | But another participant argued that it did n't really matter whether it was additional money or not . |
| 27 | Harvey Postlethwaite at Tyrrell felt that it did if the driver survived . |
| 28 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 29 | Two inscriptions from the early fourth century show that it did not always do so ( Tod 103 , 108 = WV 7 , HD 20 ) : they have the unusual opening formula ‘ it seemed good to the Council ’ . |
| 30 | The meeting was the highest-level contact between the two countries since the end of the Korean War , but the USA stressed that it did not represent an upgrading of bilateral relations , but was a one-off event designed to impress upon the North Korean government the importance attached to the nuclear safeguards issue by the USA . |