Example sentences of "it did [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , its benefits were confined to those already holding land , and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness . |
| 2 | It did nothing to improve the situation and still more distressing scenes occurred . |
| 3 | I came to the project from a background in and around off-site education , convinced that while removing a disaffected minority from the mainstream might give those pupils a better chance of survival and their teachers relief from extreme disruption , it did nothing to change the factors which produced that disaffection . |
| 4 | But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , while the Report may have rejected the reactionary normativist ideology it is also the case that it did nothing to challenge the dominant legal culture . |
| 6 | The Dispersionists talked of it being an answer — ‘ the only guarantee of a future for our children ’ — but in practical terms it did nothing to solve the problem of over-population that was supposedly its raison d'etre . |
| 7 | THE SHADOW Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , yesterday criticised the country 's financial sector , claiming it did nothing to help the economy . |
| 8 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 9 | When it did she made the coffee quickly and poured herself a cup . |