Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 2 | The merchant seaman 's need for benevolence did not go entirely unnoticed in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Miracle cures for alcoholism did n't happen . |
| 4 | But his search for pleasure did not stop there . |
| 5 | Ironically , Gallacher 's capacity for tragedy did not leave him for long ; at the end of the game he was told his sister-in-law had died in Scotland , and as the tartan army led a ragtime jazz-band through the streets of London , Hughie Gallacher was on his way to the funeral . |
| 6 | The numbers conferred by the Office of Works for identification did not run consecutively , and one competitor complained that his work was hung in two separate parts of the hall . |
| 7 | The effect of smoking did not seem to be greater in one group than the other ; the percentage fall was the same in both . |
| 8 | The journalists of Esquire did not specify the names of this country 's worst -dressed men . |
| 9 | The severity of impairment did not differ from that seen after left-sided lesions . |
| 10 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 11 | Other aspects of freedom did not affect them so much . |
| 12 | This was not orthodox , but then , although a Freudian , she was not an orthodox Freudian , and her vision of futurity did not exclude celibacy . |
| 13 | His parents , Malcolm and Susan Mallard , of Blacon , Chester , claim the Ministry of Defence did not look after him properly . |
| 14 | All this makes it evident and indisputable that the compiler of PS did not understand the finer points of trust wordings : for he announces that the wordings he quotes are ones in which the settlor addresses the beneficiary . |
| 15 | The better explanation remains that the policy pursued by the trade unions during the winter of discontent did indeed mark a return to normality . |
| 16 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 17 | The car of course did not follow . |
| 18 | Nigel of course did n't give in to blackmail . |
| 19 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 20 | English society , of course did n't work out that way . |
| 21 | Second , legal decisions based on ideas of contract did not fit the value system of Indian villagers . |
| 22 | This highly developed system of teaching did not seem to be working well . |
| 23 | In particular the median frequency of defecation did not differ between the groups . |
| 24 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 25 | The issue of coverage did not dissipate during the year and with the exception of the Head of Maths , everyone was worried that they were not able to complete even this much-reduced syllabus , and that the knock-on effect could lead to serious repercussions in later years . |
| 26 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
| 27 | Marianne Farningham became a member of the Northampton School Board in the mid-1880s , but she declined to canvass or address meetings , preferring to send a printed letter round to electors , though this ladylike course of action did not prevent her heading the poll . |
| 28 | Life as a second lieutenant in the Guards with little prospect of action did not appeal , although by the time the Germans invaded France in May 1940 , Stirling was in Chamonix training with a force of experienced skiers who were to be sent to help the Finns . |
| 29 | This petulant and bureaucratic state of mind did not bode well for the conduct of a battle that was now plainly imminent . |
| 30 | Marc 's bark of disbelief did n't make her pause . |