Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
| 2 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |
| 3 | Whether the preface to his treatise in which this comment was made was ever actually read by the society 's members is not known , although they did order two copies of his ‘ two publications on Farriery ’ . |
| 4 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 5 | It was easy for Draper and White to mock the church fathers for their naiveté on matters of natural philosophy , forgetting that they did have higher concerns — forgetting , too , that their naiveté often reflected the pagan wisdom of their day . |
| 6 | S so then the evidence is that they did know each other , begging what know exactly entails , but that 's not in dispute . |
| 7 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 8 | Since most employment rights are dependent upon the possession of a record of continuous service with a single employer , most casual workers would fail to qualify for most of these rights even if they did have dependent employee status . |
| 9 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 10 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 11 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 12 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
| 13 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 14 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |
| 15 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
| 16 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 17 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 18 | When they did employ this form it was , as at the Pantheon , a dome set upon circular walls which did not present great constructional problems ( 127 , 128 and 129 ) . |
| 19 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 20 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |
| 21 | Whatever ensued , the United Company of Undertakers did not receive livery status , though they did excite sufficient interest to merit a sarcastic caricature from William Hogarth entitled ‘ The Company of Undertakers ’ , and with the motto ‘ Et Plurima Mortis Imago ’ — ‘ The Very Picture of Death ’ . |