Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official figures indicated that more than half the 2,900,000 electorate did not vote . |
| 2 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 3 | In 1973 the government ran a considerable campaign to instruct electors how to record their votes under the system of proportional representation , but it was thought that after the experience of two proportional representation elections in 1973 the electorate did not need to be more than reminded of what was required . |
| 4 | However , the electorate did not trust the Conservatives on full employment policy , and this feeling was confirmed by the aggressive anti-socialist tenor of the election campaign , when the rallying cry was for decontrol as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | In part , this is because the aerosols from the Pinatubo volcano did not reach the Arctic stratosphere in as high quantities as feared . |
| 6 | A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert , or show cowardice , or disobey orders . |
| 7 | And while some people might use a sunscreen abroad , over 40 per cent of those who often suffered sunburn did n't use anything when holidaying in the UK despite the recent hot summers . |
| 8 | The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery . |
| 9 | The message of de Gaulle the politician was that national renewal did not have to succeed national disaster ; it could be achieved through a reform in the organization of the French state . |
| 10 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 11 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 12 | ‘ Frankly , it 's amazing that Labour did n't make more of the current economic difficulties , ’ he said , expressing vigorous dissatisfaction at the intellectual content of the election campaign . |
| 13 | Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics . |
| 14 | We understand why Labour did n't win the election . |
| 15 | Despite the foundation of the small national Independent Labour Party in 1893 , Labour did not appear to present an irresistible threat . |
| 16 | It seems that the tradition of working in the woodlands in this country went into decline after the First World War , when most of the skilled labour did not return . |
| 17 | Organized labour did not drop the issue though and some more enlightened firms continued to introduce private agreements . |
| 18 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |
| 19 | But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world . |
| 20 | Alternatively , was it due to the fact that the Labour did not mount an effective campaign against its position ? |
| 21 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a powerful warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
| 22 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
| 23 | And Labour did not have a monopoly of CND-leaning members or policies . |
| 24 | Many people felt that the Thorneycroft/Mountbatten reorganization did not go far enough , and that Service Departments should have been abolished and a completely functional organization adopted . |
| 25 | Also the Opposition did not want to waste time on such minutiae , preferring to tackle the government on wider issues arising from the conduct of foreign or domestic policy . |
| 26 | There was a Department of Trade and Industry Question Time last month and a debate last week , but the Opposition did not answer those questions . |
| 27 | Radio Moscow World Service quoted Gamsakhurdia as having cancelled talks with the opposition scheduled for Sept. 30 , because " the opposition did not lay down arms " . |
| 28 | For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that . |
| 29 | The local opposition did not require much effort to undermine state legitimacy on the effects of uranium mining : indeed the state itself contributed strongly to its own delegitimization . |
| 30 | An important aspect of the successful implementation of these parts of the constitution was that the political opposition did not object to them . |