Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 2 | I do n't know how much actual difference it did make . |
| 3 | In the Victorian era it did but it does n't today . |
| 4 | In the real world it did not require a superman to beat Mr Kinnock . |
| 5 | A spokesman said : ‘ Because of the current economic climate it did not come as a shock . |
| 6 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 7 | Although the Crown avoided a large debt it did so only by reducing its own revenue and patronage and by imposing the serious social burdens of debasement . |
| 8 | For traditional criticism it did not make an especial difference whether the date of composition of Milton 's Samson Agonistes was assigned to 1647–53 during the Civil War or to the Restoration period of 1660–70 . |
| 9 | It was a late abortion it did n't work straight away , it m probably the baby died but it did n't come away from her you see and er , it was a shame , but she oh she was called a very bad woman you know because her husband was fighting for his country and and er you know . |
| 10 | It was like a little explosion because it was n't just a question of telling one other person ; I had to tell my parents and I had to tell all my schoolfriends and make sure that my world existed and to a great extent it did . |
| 11 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |
| 12 | In the short term it did sterling work in organizing petitions , counter-demonstrations and , most significantly , a mass lobby of Haringey Council in October , 1986 , when the Labour councillors reaffirmed their commitment to all aspects of their lesbian and gay rights policy . |
| 13 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 14 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 15 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 16 | In the days when increased duty meant an increased tax take , this attitude might just be forgiven , never mind the long-term damage it did to the industry . |
| 17 | The Dispersionists talked of it being an answer — ‘ the only guarantee of a future for our children ’ — but in practical terms it did nothing to solve the problem of over-population that was supposedly its raison d'etre . |
| 18 | The proliferation of controls , for example , is bound to add to the problems of command , control and communication in wartime ( as on a small scale it did in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ) , but how much so it would be hard to say . |
| 19 | The only thing it did n't have last night was an audience . |
| 20 | When ‘ This Charming Man ’ was unleashed on the general public it did sound fresh and exciting . ’ |
| 21 | The rules were intended to simulate a solo walk , and along the most arduous sections it did — I was out there without aid — but in the region of towns and villages things were lax . |
| 22 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 23 | The Halifax 's strategic approach is most clearly shown in two big steps it did not take . |
| 24 | said it 's just one big joke it did n't go in |
| 25 | Completely unperturbed , he explained what marvellous things it did for his skin texture . |
| 26 | The other thing it did , since the one-time imperialists were in NATO and their opponents were not , was to bring the cold war into Africa . |
| 27 | While the CPSU dominated Soviet politics it did not have to worry about majorities in the Supreme Soviet . |
| 28 | In fact when the Daily Mail launched an appeal for an anti-red ambulance it did not raise sufficient money to send even one to the Spanish fascists . |
| 29 | How this community developed along the intensely nationalistic lines it did and the subsequent crisis resulting from the clash of ‘ German ’ chemistry with the revolutionary ‘ French ’ chemistry , forms the main thrust of this excellent book . |
| 30 | The trial was being viewed as a test case for the law , but Isobel Brydie , co-chairman of Scotland 's Campaign Against Irresponsible Drivers , said that as Ballantine had been as convicted on the dangerous driving charge it did not test the court 's response to the new section . |