Example sentences of "this [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Kimura 's interpretation of this finding did not go unchallenged . |
| 2 | Yet this change did not require much expenditure or creative thought allocation as a concept could have been deployed , rather than selection . |
| 3 | This ban did not include Madeira and so British merchants were able to ship wine from Madeira to the American colonies . |
| 4 | Affinity of conduct and values among this majority did not always make for unity . |
| 5 | If this snake did show , I thought , please God it liked the taste of men with beards . |
| 6 | Given the clear evidence of the effects of immigration as an issue in some earlier general elections , who can be certain that this coverage did not switch votes away from Labour , or at least re-attached previously deserting Tories ? |
| 7 | This story did the rounds some years ago , when Romanians already had the measure of their leader , but while the West was still honouring President Ceausescu for what was considered to be his independent stand on foreign policy issues . |
| 8 | This story did not impress the court who took the view that she had used a knife to cut off the head soon after its birth , and eventually she had to admit the truth . |
| 9 | It is regrettable that the court in this case did not display any principled commitment to the idea of freedom of movement or evinced any anxiety that such an ancient liberty was being seriously eroded . |
| 10 | This case did not concern the availability of coercive remedies against the Crown and it might be argued that this statement is of no relevance in that context . |
| 11 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 12 | This case did not involve any charge over property but involved a wife becoming jointly liable with her husband on a loan which he obtained from the bank for business purposes . |
| 13 | I am satisfied that the evidence in this case did not entitle the judge to come to the conclusion that there was in fact a grave risk of an intolerable situation for the boy if his return were to be ordered . |
| 14 | ‘ Which in this case did n't come up . |
| 15 | The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care . |
| 16 | It was yeah , Jamie 's mummy said it was going to rain this afternoon did n't she ? |
| 17 | Erm six Because , because we did n't do this bit did we ? |
| 18 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 19 | This contract did not reduce the level of tension experienced by the three London first appointment teachers on the course . |
| 20 | This Minton did , afterwards taking Tindle back to Hamilton Terrace where his large picture , The Death of Nelson , still in progress , was hanging on one wall . |
| 21 | Murdoch Macleod was born in Edinburgh and educated at Donaldson 's Hospital after which he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh tailoring firm , but this existence did not meet with his taste for adventure , so at the age of 19 he embarked on a steamer from Southampton to South Africa in 1892 . |
| 22 | This provision did not take into account the substantial number of businesses in the licensed trade which are owned and operated by bodies corporate or incorporate and not by individual persons , with the result that the licence holder was a company official who exercised little or no control over the day-to-day running of the premises , or was the manager of the premises , and whose employment could be terminated at any time , irrespective of the date of expiry of the licence , either by his own volition or by his employer 's . |
| 23 | He was aware that this description did not fit Ramsey . |
| 24 | This freedom did not necessarily find expression in forms which were in conflict with the ruling patrician elite . |
| 25 | Strangely this vandalism did not cease when the collieries were nationalised . |
| 26 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 27 | However , this study did not find any differences in morbidity between the two groups . |
| 28 | But in terms of general premalignant changes , almost all the patients with chronic atrophic gastritis had intestinal metaplasia , and the mild dysplastic changes in random biopsy specimens in this study did not coincide with the observed cancers . |
| 29 | It should be emphasised , however , that this study did not show pancreatic neoplasia , including adenoma , in any of the fundectomised animals . |
| 30 | It is evident that this study did not differentiate between the intake of bulk laxatives and stimulatory laxatives of the anthranoid type . |