Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As tension at the count at Hummersknott School mounted , a worried gaggle of counters informed the Returning Officer the number of ballot papers did not tally with the number who had cast votes .
2 The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality .
3 They were also used in hydraulic systems because they did not react with the materials used in the pipes and pistons .
4 Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans .
5 This did not fit with the idea of ‘ collaborative activities ’ which we had set out with because we had formulated our questions in terms of the teacher 's decision making .
6 The answer did not finish with the statement that for all the natural beauty above ground , Lesotho had no wealth below .
7 Control of the lives of accused prostitutes did not end with the repeal of the Acts ; it was merely transferred to new agencies , often with similar personnel to those who had enforced the Contagious Diseases Acts .
8 Resistance to the Turks did not end with the overthrow of Djuradj Branković 's Serbian kingdom and the occupation of Bosnia and Hercegovina .
9 During the war military training took several hours of the school curriculum and this did not end with the armistice .
10 Clues in Brian 's car did not end with the love note .
11 THE horrifying story did not end with the death of Claire Peck at the hospital , according to the prosecution .
12 He took her arm , and held it firmly by its crooked elbow , propelling her so that she did not collide with the crowds of people , and she liked to have it held .
13 Further , the decision to implement criminal law legislation did not originate with the state in the narrow sense at all , but with purity and feminist groups who were increasingly taking the lead in sexual politics .
14 And the last time I did not return with the van in time for evening milking you were very cross . ’
15 Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless .
16 There could be no other reason , and yet that did not accord with the placidity of his face and his voice , nor did it match with the image Harry was beginning to form of him .
17 The farmer can not have known of ancient alignments , and his reconstruction did not accord with the circle 's original orientation on the southern moon .
18 But , it did not accord with the facts of the case before him in which all companies within a group were millers .
19 Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul .
20 The snag was that their accounting years often did not coincide with the April-March tax year .
21 After all , they did not coincide with the nerve distribution , and nerves were known to function using electrical energy .
22 Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct .
23 Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return .
24 She did not consult with the children 's family doctors , or their class teachers at school .
25 Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval .
26 This line did not meet with the approval of the IRA hardliners , who have escalated the violence in Northern Ireland over the last year to an intensity not seen since the worst days of the 1970s .
27 His brilliant plan did not meet with the approval of the Imperial Naval Staff .
28 This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come .
29 Also , the severity of the disease did not correlate with the increase in the immunoreactive pan-PLA2 in serum , whereas the increase in the catalytic activity of PLA2 effectively separated the severe necrotising forms from the mild oedematous forms of acute pancreatitis .
30 However , the concentrations of zinc and copper , although they correlated with each other , did not correlate with the levels of protons .
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