Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One area where the accounts do show some growth , though , is in special projects . |
| 2 | If the courts did give this construction to the term law they would be applying a very different thesis from that originally conceived by Gould . |
| 3 | However , the proposals do contain some features of a Type I1 model . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the reactions of the parties do have some effect on the leaders , though probably this is a little more true in the case of the Conservative Party . |
| 6 | However the judges did order that margin notes made by the so-called nymphomaniac on their genital size , sexual skills and bedroom fantasies would remain secret . |
| 7 | If such shafts found within the pyramids do have any significance it is most probably as a passageway for the spirit of the deceased to mount up to the stars . |
| 8 | The figures do afford some comparability between years , and even a brief examination of them shows the great shift from wool to cloth as England 's main export commodity . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the apparent need for periodic spring-cleaning in the professions does pose some questions . |
| 10 | Our first holiday to the islands helped solve that problem , and provided great help in future years . |
| 11 | If the plaintiffs do jump that second hurdle , another will stand in their way . |
| 12 | Generally , most of the men did feel some guilt and disliked fiddling , but said , ‘ I do n't like it but I have to ’ . |
| 13 | We do not yet know whether all the infinities do cancel each other out , or exactly how to relate the waves on the string to the particular types of particle that we observe . |
| 14 | What happens when the police do detain such individuals ? |
| 15 | But on the whole the ex-slaves did acquire some land ( though not the '40 acres and a mule' of which they dreamed ) and the ex-serfs , though losing some of the land to the lords , especially in the regions of expanding commercial agriculture , remained peasants . |