Example sentences of "[subord] [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 And it will be interesting to see if people really do like happy endings .
3 Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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