Example sentences of "it did [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although , looking back , the recession was not perhaps as bad as it might have been , it did nevertheless cause some strains between booksellers and publishers , ’ the new president of the Publishers Association , Sir Roger Elliott of OUP , acknowledged . |
| 2 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 3 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 4 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 5 | At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors . |
| 6 | If the document is to be regarded technically as a matter of law , as a codicil , of course it need not contain any appointment of executors , but the position still is that when it was signed by Mr. Winterbone it did not contain any effective disposition at all . |
| 7 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 8 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 9 | In any case it did not deter such aims as : |
| 10 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 11 | After two passes through the US National Cancer Institute screen it did not show enough activity to be worth developing further . |
| 12 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 13 | It did not make any sales . |
| 14 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 15 | It did not light any new fires for Nicholson and died a quiet death . |
| 16 | Although he announced that there would be ‘ no election results while we 're here ’ , it did not stop much speculation over both the opera and the election . |
| 17 | It did not cost much to set oneself up as a metalworker . |
| 18 | She ran the massager up the inside of Sally 's thigh again but suddenly it did not hurt any more . |
| 19 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
| 20 | It did not offer more choice but less than there was before . |
| 21 | And yet it did not hold any of them back . |
| 22 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |
| 23 | I supposed , since to him Neil was only ‘ John Parsons ’ , it did not matter either way , and if Ewen saw the little pile of debris — tins and used paper plates and my thermos — that I had left outside the tent , it would surely go to persuade him that Neil was safely ensconced on the island . |
| 24 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 25 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 26 | The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans . |
| 27 | It did not include any grants to the universities in Scotland , which are the responsibility of the DES ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Tables 15.1 , 15.2 and 21.4.12 ) . |
| 28 | It did not include any formula for the future determination of pay , a principal element of the unions ' original claim , and ambulance workers on Merseyside declared an all-out stoppage from Feb. 26 until the results were known of a national membership ballot , in which , however , 81 per cent supported acceptance of the deal ( as announced on March 13 ) . |
| 29 | Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel . |
| 30 | It did not produce any direct advance in therapeutics , but it remained as evidence that powerful antibacterial agents were not incompatible with living human tissues , and that chemical methods of investigation were essential for solving biological problems . |