Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 3 | A number of Labour authorities did the same , believing it could help them plan service development more effectively . |
| 4 | This view of economic change did not go unchallenged at that time , however ( Kumar , 1978 ) , but the events of the early 1980s have led to a renewal of interest in the post-industrial thesis . |
| 5 | Welfare state politics could lie in response while the engine of economic growth did its work . |
| 6 | The pace of political change did not match that of the economic sector . |
| 7 | So many allegations of political interference did those restructuring plans prompt that the then Arts Minister , Richard Luce , felt it necessary to reassure the Commons ( 27 February , 1989 ) that although he supported the aims of the proposed restructuring , he believed responsibility for management of National Museums should be delegated to chairmen and directors . |
| 8 | Here , however , the Court held that the absence of judicial review and the provision of political control did not exceed the limits of what was permissible . |
| 9 | Crucial for Bourdieu 's challenge was his observation in Kabylia that Lévi-Strauss 's principle of exogenous marriages did not hold . |
| 10 | The chorus of primitive tragedy did indeed have such a basis . |
| 11 | The number of unemployed demonstrations did not abate . |
| 12 | Bit of fresh air did n't hurt anybody . |
| 13 | The proportion of French visitors did indeed rise . |
| 14 | As a party of French anglers did , whilst staying at the Grant Arms , Monymusk , in May 1987 for three days . |
| 15 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 16 | This is supported by our study with human volunteers , in which an excess of dietary phosphate did not prevnet the protective effects of supplemental dietary calcium on solubility and lytic activity of luminal surfactants . |
| 17 | A small number of late-nineteenth-century thinkers did begin to warn against the dangers of pollution and environmental exhaustion , but they were as yet in a minority . |
| 18 | However , other studies of unmarked/marked pairs did not offer support for this view . |
| 19 | Jacobite candidates did well in the elections to Anne 's last two Parliaments , although it must be remembered that Tory candidates in general did well , so that the absolute rise in the number of Jacobite MPs did not necessarily reflect a relative rise in the strength of Jacobitism within the Tory party as a whole . |
| 20 | It was not that the wives and children of hand-loom weavers did not work . |
| 21 | When the rate of economic growth slowed , that of public expenditure did not . |
| 22 | That the Director of Public Prosecutions did not press for prosecution suggests that this line of defence might have been effective , or might have resulted in the prosecution net catching even larger , embarrassed fish . |
| 23 | If primitive societies were classless , this whole process could obviously not take place , and so the theory of social change did not apply to them . |
| 24 | Impatience with the slowness of parliamentary and bureaucratic procedures , and a growing awareness that in the Spain of the 1930s the mere passage of social legislation did not guarantee its swift and successful implementation , were pushing leftwards not only the FNTT and other elements within the UGT , but also the Young Socialists , elements within the Socialist Party apparatus , and not least Largo Caballero himself . |
| 25 | Indeed there is some evidence that only with the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and the deaths of British servicemen did the ‘ Fortress Falklands ’ policy emerge . |
| 26 | At the same time , the shake-out of British industry did not gather momentum before the late 1970s . |
| 27 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 28 | 91% of their sample of clerical workers did not exercise any control over how they worked , they simply followed a set of routines without using their initiative . |
| 29 | Apparently , vast numbers of ordinary folk did n't agree , and that no doubt was connected with taxation policy . |
| 30 | This of course helped make sure that people of established wealth did not go to the colonies . |