Example sentences of "[adv] as it did [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 2 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 3 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 4 | It matters not how strong the persuasion was , so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient 's decision . |
| 5 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 6 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 7 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |