Example sentences of "[det] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not mean , unfortunately , that human rights were being respected , but that regimes around the world were using new methods of repression such as ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions . |
| 2 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 3 | This did not prevent the Family Planning Association in its Dublin and Cork clinics from providing contraceptives freely and students at University College , Dublin from installing a condom-dispensing machine in their Union building . |
| 4 | All this did , of course , cost money , but if you 've had even a comparatively small amount of that and then lost it , you do tend to realize how transient the whole thing is and not worry so much about getting it back again . |
| 5 | This did grate rather , but how else was I supposed to survive ? |
| 6 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 7 | In the short term this did result in a reduction in capacity , leading many observers to criticise BR for short-sightedness in view of the need to attract new traffic in readiness for the opening of the Channel Tunnel , but during 1988 the Dover-Dunkerque service received a boost when Railfreight Distribution commissioned a new high-capacity ferry , the Nord — Pas de Calais , to cater both for individual wagonload consignments and for trainload traffic on this route . |
| 8 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 9 | US officials said this did amount to a description of a rouble gold standard , but emphasised that Mr Baker was not prescribing or even recommending policy to Moscow . |
| 10 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 11 | This did not come as a surprise . |
| 12 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 13 | This did not necessarily mean that all local party chiefs in the minorities were also lethargic during 1922 . |
| 14 | She formed a distinctly close relationship with some business figures prominent in the Jewish community , though this did not unduly colour her view of the state of Israel . |
| 15 | During the war military training took several hours of the school curriculum and this did not end with the armistice . |
| 16 | He discovered that this did not happen . |
| 17 | This did not please everyone . |
| 18 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 19 | The king is reported as having told the clergy that they must reproach the practice ‘ vehemently and bitterly ’ , and if this did not succeed , he would take further measures . |
| 20 | And this did raise the whole issue of the future of the sterling area . |
| 21 | Maggie knew that many of her school-friends admired Phoebe ; they thought she was rather splendid , especially since they had all got into ecology , but this did not help Maggie . |
| 22 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 23 | ‘ This did not endear me to certain people at BRM . |
| 24 | Calculating the draws on the coupon , the odds on a dog , the speed of a bird might draw upon reserves of numeracy and judgement , but this did not betoken the triumph of a ‘ scientific world-view ’ . |
| 25 | Even so , this did not cover the full cost of the project , confirming that some form of subsidy was essential . |
| 26 | This did not mean that he was above sacrificing aesthetic principle — if there is such a thing , and if he had it — to the purely partisan pleasures of Morte aux païens . |
| 27 | This did not mean that he and his colleagues were opposed to the plan . |
| 28 | This did not mean a lack of thought about the philosophical agenda behind . |
| 29 | However , Mr Gorbachev made clear this did not mean the entire relationship between the two Germanys had to be frozen for ever . |
| 30 | But this did not prevent Mrs Thatcher from exposing another potential problem in her Financial Times interview : accommodating a trading and reserve currency such as sterling within a mechanism where the Deutschemark has no serious challenger . |