Example sentences of "[conj] did [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | what did , or did not happen at that time . |
| 2 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 3 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 4 | In the same debate , the then Chancellor forecast the same growth that has been forecast today — a growth that did not happen . |
| 5 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 6 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 7 | Kevin and I had a bit of a scuffle , but it was nothing that did n't happen all over the park and certainly nothing to warrant our marching orders . |
| 8 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 9 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 10 | That was the crunch point , the writing and the doing of it — that did n't happen , so it has n't got them , so it looks a bit blander than it should have been . |
| 11 | REMEMBER all the bad things that were going to happen , but did not happen , after the Gulf war two years ago ? |