Example sentences of "did [adv] use [art] " in BNC.

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1 I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways .
2 Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index .
3 When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead .
4 In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question .
5 One study did not use a double-blind design and was therefore excluded from the analysis .
6 Walter did not use a sledge to raise the action .
7 But Stein did not use a check in his pianos , neither did Sebastien Lengerer of Kufstein in a piano of 1793 , nor did Johann David Schiedmayer of Erlangen in a piano of 1794 , nor did Johann Schmidt of Salzburg in a piano of 1794 .
8 If a player did not use a large dynamic range , he would have been content with a piano without a check .
9 Interestingly , even Dr. Cuk himself , after starting up his Teslaco power supply consultancy , did not use the Cuk converter for his early power supply contracts .
10 That was why , he said , the NHS White Paper did not use the words ‘ cash limits ’ .
11 He argued that cells become different because , at the time of cell division , different genes are transmitted to different daughter cells ( he did not use the word gene , but that is what he meant ) ; whereas in fact all body cells contain the same genes , and become different because different genes are activated in different cells .
12 A few days ago Li Xiannian , a former President , broke his public silence to support the controversial Three Gorges project to dam the Yangtze , but did not use the occasion to back faster reforms .
13 A second survey of fiction use indicated that most fiction readers did not use the reservation service .
14 He did not use the existing Defence Committee , which he chaired , as Attlee had done for Korea .
15 You may be someone who has acknowledged biases and prejudices which are hard to set aside when making decisions , but which might lead you to overlook a suitable candidate if you did not use the job and personnel specifications as your guideline .
16 Moreover , despite the widespread day-to-day use of Swahili in the areas visited , many still did not use the language in their own homes .
17 The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room .
18 In speaking of something being necessarily so and not otherwise , Anselm was using the language of his theological speculations , and he did not use the phrase lightly .
19 One should note however that Cauchy did not use the word group but talked rather of " a system of conjugate substitutions " .
20 Woolf did not use the word ‘ legitimacy ’ , but it is clearly the prison 's lack of legitimacy with inmates which he saw as of central importance : ‘ It is not possible for the Inquiry to form any judg-ment on whether the specific grievances of these prisoners were or were not well-founded .
21 It can , however , be claimed that though the expansion of employment in the public sector was not directly responsible for the decline in the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector because it did not use the same labour sources and because there was no labour shortage anyhow , it was , nevertheless , indirectly responsible because it led to a decline in private profit and hence to a shortage of capital for investment in the manufacturing industries .
22 One occurred between referral and admission , one had recurrent cyanotic breath holding but the parents did not use the prescribed home po 2 monitor .
23 On 6 May 1628 he was the first to propose proceeding through the Petition of Right , although he did not use the phrase , and the House waited for word from Coke before acting .
24 Interestingly , the teachers who did not use The Machine Gunners said things like , ‘ I like other books more ’ ( for example Conrad 's War and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe ) and went on to describe very positive pupil responses to these alternative titles .
25 One did not use the word cocky of such as Paul Lane , but it did cross Coffin 's mind , if in no unfriendly spirit .
26 Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement .
27 In his reply Miliband raised objections to this ‘ structural super-determinism ’ , and argued implicitly — though he did not use the expression — for a dialectic of individual ( or social actor ) and structure , a dialectic which is explored at length in Sartre 's Critique of Dialectical Reason .
28 He did not use the Donation in his arguments to restore to the papacy command over the Papal State — his policy of recuperatio — but the diplomas of Carolingian and later emperors .
29 He did not use the car as a conveyance .
30 We noticed that the first speaker , Susan did not use the JC vowel in STRUT words [ P3 ] .
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