Example sentences of "[conj] did [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other ! |
2 | This is certainly true of the two middle-class women who said they liked or did n't mind housework but were dissatisfied with it . |
3 | Papers that did not include a control group , were not randomised , did not allow calculation of ‘ intention to treat ’ results , or did not collect information on mortality or the incidence of respiratory or gastrointestinal infection were excluded . |
4 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
5 | He denied all the charges against him except possession of the literature which he said was either on sale in public bookstores or did not advocate violence . |
6 | Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status . |
7 | In the WFS , however , those women were considered " fecund " who were either pregnant or did not report fecundity impairment . |
8 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
9 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
10 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
11 | He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches . |
12 | Hands that did not hold banners and placards were thrust deep into pockets , and every street was thronged with lines of men pouring into the heart of the city past the ‘ Chambers ’ . |
13 | So long as there is coal in the United Kingdom that can be extracted efficiently from the ground , I see no day when we could envisage an energy policy that did not embrace coal . |
14 | The first commercially available products from this group of drugs for anti-bacterial chemotherapy were the fluoroquinolones , which bore very little resemblance to the nalidixic acid derivatives that did not contain fluorine . |
15 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
16 | The original title-page was replaced with one that did not mention Shakespeare 's name . |
17 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
18 | However , it is important to recall the full list , in order to emphasize the factors that did not influence perceptions . |
19 | The EISA bus was originally developed by a consortium of nine companies led by Compaq Computer Corp that did not want IBM Corp 's pricey-to-license Micro Channel wished upon them . |
20 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
21 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
22 | She urged nurses to question authors of all material on child protection that did not include children with disabilities . |
23 | The hallway was sleazy in the extreme , plaster falling from those portions of walls that did not have posters holding them together . |
24 | Adam appeared in the distance ; he hurried through the bar , the summer salon , and the television room before he finally reached the privacy of Buzz 's office , which contained the only telephone that did not have extensions all over the chateau . |
25 | The Spurs Club was aimed at a deaf membership that did not use sign language . |
26 | Yel'tsin caused a great deal of concern in this connection by authorising a statement that Russia would not necessarily recognise existing boundaries with states that did not become members of the same political union ; this , at least implicitly , raised issues such as the status of the Crimea , transferred to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954 as a political gesture . |
27 | To put it another way , ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants . |
28 | The report also criticises company secretary Bruce Gray , for preparing minutes of board meetings that did not take place without checking the fact of the meetings and the decisions reached . |
29 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
30 | In addition a 25 second burst of delta activity was seen that did not cause panic or disturbed behaviour . |