Example sentences of "[adj] did the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until 1872 did the British ones earn 50 per cent of their passenger receipts from the common herd . |
| 2 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 3 | Social workers became involved , as later did the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children . |
| 4 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 5 | Dustin Hoffman has confirmed plans to remake The Graduate almost 25 years after he first did the wild thing with Mrs Robinson and her daughter . |
| 6 | More fundamentally , why as early as 1987 did the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , adopt the policy of ‘ informally ’ linking the exchange value of the pound to that of the Deutschmark ? |
| 7 | Only towards the end of the 1920s did the central regime start to suppress Belorussian cultural institutions , and it was not until 1933 that general persecution of nationalism became prevalent in the area . |
| 8 | Little did the young policeman know that he was not to see either of his colleagues alive again . |
| 9 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 10 | Democritus , it is said , never appeared in public without laughing , so little did the serious pursuits of men seem serious to him . |
| 11 | Neither did the remaining reduced core of electors identifying with the Labour Party subscribe with any unanimity to the proposals of the party 's left wing , which were designed to capitalise on anti-Heath radicalism and extend it in an anti-capitalist direction . |
| 12 | Neither did the square-tailed kite , which Gould found near Scone , receive mercy at the end of Gould 's barrel . |
| 13 | Neither did the Soviet leaders appear to feel any great need to rectify this situation . |
| 14 | His strange turn of phrase evoked no response from the lads ; neither did the unusual image on the screen . |
| 15 | Neither did the would-be owners want or need the staffed apartments and small group homes funded by Massachusetts ' department of health , which in many cases offered no degree of permanency . |
| 16 | Only with the Conservative ministry of Sir Robert Peel from 1841 to 1846 did the great switch to a laissez-faire policy begin on a broader scale . |
| 17 | Only after he committed suicide in February 1988 did the mass media acknowledge his talents and create a Bashlachev boom . |