Example sentences of "[conj] it did [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could even appreciate how tricky a situation this must have been for the DIA , although it did little to ease his sense of injury . |
| 2 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 3 | The arguments among wartime commanders focused both on the ineffectiveness of indiscriminate bombing ( there was strong evidence , confirmed in post-war surveys , that it did little to disrupt war production and had a reverse effect on popular morale ) , as well as legal and moral unacceptability . |
| 4 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 5 | The Tory Party had a clear mission which was to break the power of the unions , and the way that it did this was by using the law . |
| 6 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 7 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 8 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 9 | But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group . |
| 10 | The buxom , ginger-haired woman also had a shady past , and it did little to help the poor woman 's image when it was resurrected by two regular carmen . |
| 11 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 12 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 13 | It is not even certain that the Diet ( parliament ) will reform the electoral system this summer , or that if it did much would change as a result . |
| 14 | Now we know that such a deformation can not take place in a polymer , for if it did some atoms would move relative to their topological nearest neighbours by far more than covalent forces would allow , dissociation would occur ( chain scission ) and the nature of the polymer would change . |
| 15 | She got a handkerchief from somewhere , and wiped herself , but it did little good . |
| 16 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 17 | The singing , the pomp and the pageantry may have galvanised Welsh emotions , but it did little for their skills or tactical awareness . |
| 18 | Edward 's diplomatic achievement in Flanders was substantial , but it did little immediately to improve his position . |
| 19 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 20 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 21 | Fran jerked her arm away but it did little to loosen the crushing grip of his powerful fingers . |
| 22 | It must be an a , because he , he , he , he said he 'd got chance of one but it did whacking great six inch er sixteen inch wheels on ! |
| 23 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 24 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 25 | I am surprised that at this sensitive time the Scottish Development Agency should have seen fit to invest $ 500,000 in Stagecoach , but I suppose that is a matter for the SDA , unless it did that under political direction . |
| 26 | It would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage . ’ |
| 27 | It er it 'd be handy actually if it generated an error when it did that . |
| 28 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 29 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 30 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |