Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , early people did study those heavenly cycles which were easily discernible within their lifespan . |
| 2 | threatened and awed the jurors to give a verdict for the King , and by unlawful means did surprize the county , that they might not make defence , and did use several menacing wicked speeches and actions to the jury and others , for obtaining his unjust purpose aforesaid . |
| 3 | And enough elderly people did survive as chronically sick , physically maimed , or mentally impaired , to sustain the most negative seventeenth-century images of old age as ‘ a perpetual sickness ’ , ‘ a disease ’ , a time of impotence in the widest sense , ‘ the dregs … of a man 's life ’ . |
| 4 | Despite squeezes on capital expenditure in this sector , total sales did increase slightly to £9.3m from £8.3m in 1991 . |
| 5 | In the fourteenth century the Fabian tactics of the chevauchée found greater favour on both sides , although there were notable exceptions when the heavy cavalry did play a major role . |
| 6 | Some Canadian tinned salmon did reach the shops but it was very expensive . |
| 7 | Coincidentally the Saxon word ‘ Falewesle ’ means the colour of fallow deer and earlier this century a large herd of fallow deer did roam the peaceful parkland . |
| 8 | What the neo-Darwinists have in their favour is almost irrefutable evidence arising from recent advances in the techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering which virtually prove that modern species did evolve from common ancestors . |
| 9 | Historical evidence suggests that in the past people did share accommodation with their kin , at least on a temporary basis , and they did so essentially for instrumental reasons resulting from social and economic pressures ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ; Davidoff , 1979 ; Roberts , 1984 ) . |