Example sentences of "that it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , in her classroom , sex was the topic on which she knew their vocabulary to be widest , in spite of the fact that it did n't receive the level of attention she insisted they devote to the subjects on the curriculum . |
| 2 | The problem with the old board was that it did not innovate and did not concern itself with exporting English hops . |
| 3 | The only redeeming feature of a goalless , worthless event at Stamford Bridge was that it did not require a grant . |
| 4 | The company said that it did not see an improvement for the second half . |
| 5 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 8 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 9 | Fisher replied that it did not matter much . |
| 10 | Dr Clarke contends that while Keynesianism was overthrown on the pretext that it did not ‘ work ’ , the collapse was political rather than theoretical . |
| 11 | In The Family , Sex and Marriage he was careful to retain an open mind on affective individualism , emphasizing first that it was not necessarily the way of the future , family change not being linear , and second , that it did not necessarily result in greater happiness than other forms of family organization . |
| 12 | Harvey Postlethwaite at Tyrrell felt that it did if the driver survived . |
| 13 | The government denies this , but has published the text of a letter from its Political Adviser to the New China News Agency ( Beijing 's embassy in Hong Kong ) suggesting that it did . |
| 14 | Yesterday , his uncompromising conclusions left no one in doubt that it did . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that the Department had , in effect , advised the partnership that it did not need a licence made it difficult for the Department to point a finger of blame at them , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 16 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 17 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 18 | History records that it did not happen ; the RCP was marginalised by the post-war economic revival . |
| 19 | But the bank is believed to have replied that it did not have the power to do so . |
| 20 | I do n't think that could happen to me now , in the way that it did in my formative years . |
| 21 | That gives America opportunities to work with the Soviets that it did not have in the past . |
| 22 | A pity , say analysts , that it did not come off : America 's biggest-ever bank merger could have led to a barrelful of such deals — and not before time . |
| 23 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 24 | Some firms ' behaviour suggests that it did , but not simply by making them invest more in Japanese factories . |
| 25 | Because it was publicly owned , its activities were restricted so that it did not compete unfairly with the private sector . |
| 26 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 27 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 28 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 29 | He was terrified that she might ‘ drop it ’ in the corridor , and so , to put his mind at rest , she told him she was only three months on , whereas in fact she was six , but carried her offspring high , so that it did n't show too much . |
| 30 | The House of Lords held that it did not : since the essence of dangerous driving was negligence , a driver should only be convicted of manslaughter if his driving was so bad as to amount to the gross negligence required under the third head of involuntary manslaughter ( see below ) . |