Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ?
2 or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’
3 ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ?
4 Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ?
5 Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system .
6 The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy .
7 Nor did it remove the old ones .
8 Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something .
9 Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement .
10 Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’
11 Nor did it have a consistent history in the sixteenth century .
12 The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica .
13 And did it make a big difference ?
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