Example sentences of "it did [adv] [vb infin] " 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 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 3 | ‘ It did rather trash the town . |
| 4 | Cherishing port as a special occasion drink was certainly flattering , but it did rather inhibit sales . |
| 5 | While the NCF was , of course , sensitive to this point , it did rather undermine its initial political strategy . |
| 6 | It did rather stretch |
| 7 | Although the Labour Party was fragmented in its approach to foreign affairs , and slow to respond to events in Europe , it did strongly oppose Fascism and appeasement even before the 1937 Bournemouth Conference . |
| 8 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 9 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 10 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 11 | It did however reflect a sense of Britain 's central role in a world-wide economy and permitted individuals to believe they could contribute to a good cause without relying upon government or becoming enmeshed in politics . |
| 12 | It did however have a Part III home for elderly mentally infirm clients and a day centre operated by a voluntary organisation ; there was also a growing private residential sector . |
| 13 | It did however have commitment and Goodwin 's fund-raising abilities . |
| 14 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 15 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 16 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |
| 17 | However , it did eventually become well known , and for 20 years organic mercurials were the most potent diuretics in clinical use . |
| 18 | One of the effects of this reflation was a huge surge in imports and a record trade deficit , but it did also restrict the growth of unemployment . |
| 19 | Annexed to the notice was a document entitled ‘ Guidance for persons being interviewed at Elm House under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 ’ This was largely concerned with the physical circumstances in which the interview would be conducted , but it did also inform the recipient of the notice that : |
| 20 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 21 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 22 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 23 | It did not start the cauldron brewing but its members reacted to the simmering unrest that was their inheritance with an honest attempt to apply minds to what had always been the province of bigotry and emotion . |
| 24 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 25 | Joy , because it did not rest upon his own faith , strongly though he valued that : but when in the morass of doubt , one has no confidence in subjective attitudes such as faith . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Marx 's social theory , although it did not advance in any detail beyond the analysis of capitalism as a mode of production to a study of the state and politics , did none the less sketch a conception of political development which was assimilated into the doctrines and practices of a large part of the European labour movement . |
| 28 | And yet … the sun might shine , but it did not shine in her life . |
| 29 | Where equity supplemented the common law , as by the recognition of uses and the grant of equitable remedies for the infringement of legal rights , it was not particularly repugnant to common lawyers because it did not countermand their authority . |
| 30 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |