Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] [vb infin] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In more recent times and in a case which did not strictly involve an employee , Lord Diplock said that the real concern of the courts was simply to ask whether the party with the greater bargaining power had exacted an unfairly onerous benefit ( Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 616 ) . |
2 | The Swiss-born architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret , the adopted Frenchman Le Corbusier , proclaimed his new architectural style of tall buildings , but it did not readily strike an echo in Britain . |
3 | He did not lightly forget an injury , but he did not manufacture trifles into injuries . |
4 | He did not then make an appeal to Adam Smith , the intellectual inspiration behind Thatcherism , but went on : ‘ The greatest of Tories , Edmund Burke , reminded us of our duties as trustees for the nation , as good stewards of its traditions , its values and its riches . ’ |
5 | Those corps came into existence in the early 20th century , when it was discovered that attendance at university did not necessarily mean an ability to lead troops . |
6 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
7 | Although there was no clear distinction between philosophy and the particular sciences , the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature . |
8 | As a consequence of the difficulties of poverty in which many working-class children were raised , education did not often provide an escape route for them and many , particularly in towns like Jarrow , faced the prospect of juvenile unemployment . |
9 | So I did n't even raise an objection when she insisted on touring the Story of Vadinamia museum , which included a lengthier account of the planet 's development than I could ever want — plus an equally detailed , and gruesome , study of life and death on the planets surface , |
10 | ‘ When I spoke to Wednesday chairman Dave Richards last week I did n't actually put an offer in . |
11 | Similar sort of thing , with the other , various other items , we did n't actually have an opportunity to , to rewrite all the bits . |