Example sentences of "did it [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
2 | Not only did it not find the islands but it could n't find the way home . |
3 | Did it not know the truth ? |
4 | If Parliament had intended that , why did it not call the Act the ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ ? |
5 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |
6 | Why , in all the hundreds of millions of years since its ancestors first evolved a pinhole eye , did it never discover the principle of the lens ? |
7 | Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established . |