Example sentences of "[Wh det] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 2 | The English millionaire folded his singed tents and stole away the insurance money , which did n't belong to him since I had nationalized the paper well before the fire was out . |
| 3 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 4 | Other contestants concocted dishes which did reflect a woman 's touch . |
| 5 | Which did n't phase Lucy . |
| 6 | Indeed , he has commented that the only sensation that he recalls from his youth ( which did not evaporate on his coming of age ) was one of persistent desire . |
| 7 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 8 | Among the coats in the bedroom was a leather bomber jacket which did look as though it could be genuine World War Two . |
| 9 | Perhaps nothing , but as she waited for money which did n't seem to be coming , it was fairly certain the crash was going to mean something . |
| 10 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 11 | With the crime itself begins his moral development , the possibility of those questions which did n't exist before . |
| 12 | No more than the answer she gave in the Crime and Punishment which did get printed , to the not quite taunting question ‘ And what does God do for you ? ’ |
| 13 | He had suffered severe migraine which did not respond to conventional treatment . |
| 14 | To scoffs of disbelief from some delegates , he asserted that , where managed safely and sensibly , nuclear power was one of the few energy sources which did not pollute the atmosphere . |
| 15 | However , there was no committee report until February 1988 and even then information was sketchy , providing merely a summary of activity which did not reveal its scale . |
| 16 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 17 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | In the face of their insistence and that of Arab League negotiators , he warned them not to settle for any deal which did not involve the withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 Syrian troops based in west Beirut and the hinterland . |
| 19 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 20 | Another sign of security was the rising number of households which did not need to buy seeds , but planted their own 634 in the autumn of 1922 , as against 554 in 1920 . |
| 21 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 22 | But these successes were achieved by military and legal means which did Britain 's international reputation much harm , including the use of the ‘ Diplock courts ’ , stern methods of interrogation and arbitrary imprisonment , and severe conditions of detention or confinement amongst political prisoners in the H block and elsewhere . |
| 23 | We engaged in the game of looking for something which did not exist . |
| 24 | There were predictable objections from departments which did not want to have their own policy advice scrutinized by outside experts . |
| 25 | The opposition parties , however , were unwilling to accept any programme of economies which did not involve a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 26 | The Bristol 167 was to be Britain 's great new advance on American types such as the Lockheed Constellation and Douglas DC-6 , which did not have the range to fly the Atlantic non-stop . |
| 27 | Prior to the 1753 Marriage Act , the state made few serious attempts to suppress either contract marriage , which consisted of a verbal promise , or clandestine marriage , which involved a religious ritual and witnesses but which did not conform to the dictates of canon law . |
| 28 | Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry . |
| 29 | And full Parliamentary divorce , which did , accounted for only a handful of divorces . |
| 30 | The maddening way-finding kept us interested , which did postpone the onset of real tiredness . |