Example sentences of "did it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 2 | Did it exploit the clashing elements of land and water , feeding on our anxiety at the concept of amphibianism ? |
| 3 | Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system , it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |
| 8 | Nor did it remove the old ones . |