Example sentences of "[conj] did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What were the factors that contributed to this disintegration — was it ‘ law ’ or did other factors play a role ? |
| 2 | John fills in a gardening diary every day and often refers back to it to find out when they mulched or did other jobs . |
| 3 | Or did British intelligence produce an unidentifiable corpse simply to bring the whole affair to an end ? |
| 4 | Or did unseen forces shape them ? |
| 5 | Nor did that tendency in itself inevitably mean loss of royal control . |
| 6 | Nor did such sentences mean that the wrongdoers were allowed to rot in peace . |
| 7 | Nor did English forces , when sent to France , properly encounter the enemy . |
| 8 | The death of Ecgberht and the emergence of a new king , Ealhmund , subsequently identified by a later Canterbury scribe ( ASC F , s.a. 784 ) as the father of Ecgberht ( ASC A , Preface ; s.a. 855 ) ; ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , king of the West Saxons ( 802–39 ) , was probably what led to this renewed involvement , for nothing more is heard of Ealhmund nor did any successor to him appear in Kent , even as subregulus . |
| 9 | Nor did any interviewer get Mr Kinnock or Mr Major to talk about immigration . |
| 10 | Nor did any undertaker take advantage of private cemetery ownership , Kensal Green and Highgate , for example , employing appointed ‘ official ’ undertakers from within the trade . |
| 11 | As all third parties do , we may delight in his indiscretions — but Charles Boyd did not , nor did any Scots of allied sympathies . |
| 12 | Nor did any intuition , any extra sense , alert him to the fact that part of the case he was quietly and imperceptibly building up inside him was going up in smoke . |
| 13 | Nor did these developments give a misleading impression of Soviet influence on world affairs . |
| 14 | Nor did socialist theory predict the fate of Cuba 's commander in Angola , General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez . |
| 15 | Nor did this rebellion have the effect of rallying the Conservative faithful . |
| 16 | Nor did this distribution change much as the level of trade accelerated . |
| 17 | The Romans never subdued these northern , painted men , the Picts ; nor did war-like Vikings , plundering down the strath in search of food , treasure and slaves ; and as King Malcolm struggled to unite his fractious kingdom , Clan Mackay in Strathnaver pursued their independent , Highland way ; tending black cattle , growing sparse crops , squabbling happily amongst themselves and their Caithness neighbours . |
| 18 | Nor did most people who heard the record — some of them were tempted to buy it after seeing Ken in Cinderella . |
| 19 | Nor did Greek interest in Persia cease after the fifth century : a apart from Plato , several fourth-century commentators had good things to say , like the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( xix Bartoletti ) , who comments on the way Persian commanders deliberately withheld payments from ( Greek ) mercenaries ; this would put them more in their power . |
| 20 | and things that did that thing and washing up and all the rest |
| 21 | Courageous in taking on the over-spending bogey that did such havoc in 1987 , it nevertheless opened the floodgates to a fortnight of ‘ we can give away more tax than you ’ , and exchanges between the two parties of a staggering triviality that effectively supplanted any wider debate about the economy . |
| 22 | And I was also taking laxatives that did untold damage . |
| 23 | And erm we never thought about playing , I suppose there were odd boys that did this sort of thing but er they were very very rare , very rare . |
| 24 | I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years . |
| 25 | And see who 's not coming this year that did last year . |
| 26 | On almost ail counts there was no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did normal services ( in fact the reverse appeared to be the case ) . |
| 27 | The separation of spheres was less rigidly prescribed for working class women and it appears that working class suffragists aroused less ire on the part of politicians than did middle class women . |
| 28 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 29 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 30 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |