Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where schools patently did need greater assistance , Leslie Ryder reasoned , was in the production of materials , in the planning of course units making use of resources , and in the use and operation of audio-visual and reprographic equipment . |
| 2 | The one redeeming feature was that Groups initially did select good crews , many of them second-tour types . |
| 3 | Convincing evidence that animals actually do operate this way comes from James Serpell of the University of Cambridge ( Animal Behaviour , vol 30 , p 1244 ) , who has been studying the aggressive behaviour of nine species of tropical parrots of the genus Trichoglossus . |
| 4 | We know , too , that meteorites often do contain complex organic molecules . |
| 5 | Fleece jackets and pullovers really do offer significant advantages , but there are scores on the market at the moment , which makes choosing the right one a little difficult . |
| 6 | And it will be interesting to see if people really do like happy endings . |
| 7 | ‘ But men and women never do match each other in that kind of way — that 's life . ’ |
| 8 | But Brian actually did interview one person , for forty-five minutes ? |
| 9 | Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety . |
| 10 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 11 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |