Example sentences of "[conj] did the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or did the 1991 Geneva show provide the cheer we all needed ? |
| 2 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 3 | Or did the thin , eerie song come from that lopsided , blue-eyed elf sitting on top of a cotton bale and staring down at her ? |
| 4 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 5 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 6 | Nor did the other guests seem to suspect anything . |
| 7 | Nor did the other women seem to be responding quite as she expected . |
| 8 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |
| 9 | Nor did the post-war trends happen at the same rate in every medium . |
| 10 | Nor did the Celtic Church repudiate Ireland 's own pre-Christian cultural heritage . |
| 11 | Nor did the earlier Bull Sheet column reappear . |
| 12 | Nor did the classical elitists provide easily testable propositions , or systematic empirical refutations of Marxism compatible with rigorous positivism . |
| 13 | The heavens did n't weep above his head , nor did the fat-cheeked clouds assume sneers of calamity . |
| 14 | Nor did the widespread destruction of the vestments , stained glass , and crucifixes , which many Calvinists found so objectionable , meet with the approval of Elizabeth herself . |
| 15 | Nor did the false name Hess had given . |
| 16 | It was given no powers in relation to those who are not so qualified , nor did the Medical Act 1858 prohibit the practice of medicine without registration . |
| 17 | We 're getting mail back from Winix America Inc , the Beaverton , Oregon start-up that did the combined Windows 3. x/Unix networking software for the Norwegian government and then Americanised it ( UX No 380 ) , marked ‘ out of business . ’ |
| 18 | I disagree with Neil about the gutter press : it was the liberal media that did the real damage , over years not days . |
| 19 | And Japan , many people 's paradigm of how finance should serve industry , has recently had markets that did the best impersonation of a casino anywhere . |
| 20 | But it was the resulting tsunami that did the greater damage : it lumbered away to the north-west , speeding up and gathering energy as it did so . |
| 21 | Each dust particle inherits the characteristic defect structure of the parent clay that did the damming , the structure that gave it its damming properties . |
| 22 | ( The system of local government would enjoy less power than did the former local Soviets . ) |
| 23 | The dominance of orthodox economic policies , cautious pragmatism and consensus politics reflected the mood of the British electorate in the 1920s rather more than did the utopian assumptions of the Die-hard remnant . |
| 24 | The deaf group were unanimous in putting ‘ accuracy of transmission of concepts ’ as absolutely essential and , interestingly , rated ‘ the ability to understand all signs used , no matter which part of the country they came from ’ , higher than did the hearing group . |
| 25 | There have been a number of other reformulations and reinterpretations that have done less violence to Mannheim 's legacy than did the early sociological and philosophical responses . |
| 26 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 27 | The modular , simulation technique appears to have been preferred by more subjects and perceived to give greater insight than did the optimal technique . |
| 28 | Again then there is no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did the normal services ( in fact the reverse appears to be the case ) . |
| 29 | The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers . |
| 30 | He decided to consult Mr Dixon , his English teacher , who was also his counsellor and , therefore , knew more about him than did the other teachers . |