Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this was higher than 13.8 ( 7.7–30.3 ) pg/mg in subjects without symptoms , this did reach statistical significant ( p=0.11 ) . |
| 2 | Of course , after my husband died , I had to find work that would enable me to look after her , and this did seem ideal . " |
| 3 | Dave added : ‘ Everything that could go wrong did go wrong . |
| 4 | Some did fall foul of the constables on a Saturday night . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , it would be misleading to conclude from the relative momentum of change in the three companies that RX alone represents success , not least because all three did achieve significant business turnaround as a result of organizational realignment . |
| 6 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 7 | If we , with our feeble skills and instruments had brought back ten men from the seeming dead , I understand all did get well , what could Almighty God do if He had a mind to do something similar ? |
| 8 | That did seem impossible . |
| 9 | Now , that did sound irresponsible ! |
| 10 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 11 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |