Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] [det] [noun sg] " 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 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Our first holiday to the islands helped solve that problem , and provided great help in future years . |
9 | If the plaintiffs do jump that second hurdle , another will stand in their way . |
10 | Generally , most of the men did feel some guilt and disliked fiddling , but said , ‘ I do n't like it but I have to ’ . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |