Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Brockweir school in the Forest of Dean did close , because of lack of support , although some parents are now petitioning the county council to sell it to them so it can re-open . |
| 2 | As when a swarme of Gnats at euentide Out of the fennes of Allan do arise , Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide , Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies , That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies ; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds , and noyous iniuries , |
| 3 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 4 | The recession in the Gulf of Mexico did hit our US based business however , and with increased competition in the North Sea our overall profitability was reduced . |
| 5 | Yet from this trivial and exhaustive research , a portrait of Goldwyn does start to emerge — indulgent , yet credible and sometimes touching — until , at length , it triumphs over the irrelevant details , the plot summaries , and the occasional errors of fact . |
| 6 | That monarch was undoubtedly comfortably ensconced up in Berwick Castle , but after some delay the Earl of Salisbury did arrive , with heralds , and was informed that he could advance safely to near the walling . |
| 7 | We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do . |
| 8 | It is of course true that the coming of Jesus did bring a fire upon the earth , a fire of judgment ; men judged themselves by their response to him . |
| 9 | KING Hussein of Jordan DID have cancer , it was confirmed last night . |
| 10 | But the people of Jericho did see them coming and shut the gate , crying , ‘ Hippy convoy ! ’ |
| 11 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 12 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
| 13 | The tremendous variety of metal artefacts in use during the Roman Occupation of Britain does present something of a challenge to the detector user in the identification and evaluation of his finds . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that the heliocentric astronomy of Copernicus did pose a challenge to a cosmic geography that Christian theologians had largely taken for granted . |
| 15 | The Grand Old Duke of York did lead his men ; Dick Whittington was a 15th century Lord Mayor of London ; Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses is said to relate to an outbreak of plague in London in the 17th century ; and Bluebeard is based on a psychopathic French murderer of the 15th century . |
| 16 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 17 | In 1797 the young Poles of Danzig did stage a street demonstration , but that was the limit of their effort to revive the Polish state , and the limit of their willingness to parade a Polish identity . |
| 18 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 19 | And the children of Elvis did hang on his every word . |
| 20 | And the children of Elvis did multiply greatly . |
| 21 | If the Prince and Princess of Wales do decide to divorce there is nothing in law that says Charles can not still become king . |
| 22 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales do have something in common — they both love leek and noodle casserole . |
| 23 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales do have something in common — they both love leek and noodle casserole . |
| 24 | I suggest he gets Granada TV to run some old programmes showing the late Jack Howarth ( Albert Tatlock ) and listens because the worthy citizens of Lancashire do speak as such . |
| 25 | This year the sorting team doubled and in consequence sorting was twice as good — even if Henry Miller 's Tropic of Capricorn did land up in astronomy ! |
| 26 | It is n't one of the large free-standing circular linkers ( through Silver do have one of these and I hope to write about it in a later article ) . |
| 27 | I think as Mr did say , erm the issue of affordable housing is a very real one . |
| 28 | Even if the old monopolies such as Uralmash do modernise their designs , ‘ its customers with access to hard currency — in the oil industry , for example — would still rather buy foreign equipment , because it is more reliable and easier to operate . ’ |
| 29 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 30 | Magazines like NI do change public opinion , though it may take a long , long time . |