Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means either that the utterance of [ 14a ] was not a case of genuine communication or that it did in fact achieve relevance . |
| 2 | Lili was still under thirty and there was no reason , the hospital staff had said , why such an unfortunate thing as a placenta previa should occur again , or if it did , they would be ready for it . |
| 3 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 4 | Now , I do n't know whether that 's because i in your house there is n't a husband or a partner , or whether it did n't occur to you to say we , whether you always think of it as I or whether he 's out winning bread or you know , wha whatever it is , but |
| 5 | I have no regrets about the divorce — except that it did n't happen sooner . |
| 6 | The statement of 12 January 1987 was completely consistent with Zaidie 's evidence on incidents ( a ) to ( e ) , except that it did not mention a threat in connection with incident ( d ) . |
| 7 | The Stop Hinkley Expansion group complained to the Inspector , arguing that this was jumping the gun and a waste of public money , despite the CEGB claim that if it did n't order these parts in advance , at its own risk , it would never keep to its construction timetable . |
| 8 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 9 | Some doubting townsfolk had their reservations , so Thomas offered that if it did not have the desired effect he would forego his fee . |
| 10 | The trouble with this is that if it did n't work it might be because the conditions and catalysts are wrong . |
| 11 | It is not even certain that the Diet ( parliament ) will reform the electoral system this summer , or that if it did much would change as a result . |
| 12 | On these grounds the Wolfenden Committee decided that the abolition of prostitution was not something that it ought to recommend , or that if it did , could have any chance of success . |
| 13 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 14 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 15 | The most simplistic answer to critics of the lobby is that if it did not exist , politicians and journalists would have to invent it . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 17 | Getting an old cast iron downpipe off the wall is not easy and there is a fair chance that if it did n't need replacing when you started , it will by the time you 've removed it . |
| 18 | Assuming the tribunal would not be so careless as to make such an oversight , it is submitted that if it did consider that the words ’ conduct of the employee ‘ in Sec 24 of the Industrial Relations Act , 1971 ( now Schedule 1 Para 6 ( 2 ) of the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act ) were impliedly qualified by something like ‘ in the course of his employment ’ , it was quite wrong . |
| 19 | It was agreed that if it did , the disclaimer would have no effect because the defenders were not able to show that it was fair and reasonable to incorporate it in the contract . |
| 20 | Third-World countries appealed to the USA to reconsider its stand , saying that unless it did so , countries which had not signed the Montreal protocol would be unable to do so , rendering efforts to save the ozone layer fruitless . |
| 21 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 22 | The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " . |
| 23 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 24 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 25 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 26 | And where it did , these people became the power of God unto salvation . |
| 27 | They both insisted that this was very important to them and that it did not detract from their feelings towards their adoptive parents . |
| 28 | As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered . |
| 29 | Applying these principles to the facts of this case , the central allegations were that Savory Milln knew that £23m of the sub-underwriting was being arranged through Mr Ferriday , knew that he was personally responsible for £7.5m and that it did not believe he had sufficient funds to cover his obligations . |
| 30 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |