Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted that it had turned out to be only too easy to make experiments in which training an animal on some task results in large biochemical and cellular changes in its brain , I felt that it was necessary to establish guidelines to help judge whether any particular change indeed has these characteristics of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 2 | Community health workers organizations do exist and participate in campaigns locally on issues that affect health , e.g. services available at local clinics or petrol price rises which affect food prices . |
| 3 | Clients do know and are entitled to know what they want ; a good lawyer will achieve an exact translation of this in another discursive realm . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , Cancerians do whinge and whine . |
| 5 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 6 | The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Most parents do try and teach their children values . |
| 8 | My poor old feet did suffer and I had to have them sorted out not so long ago . |
| 9 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 10 | Fresh from his garden , Nigel Colborn has plenty of planting ideas to help ensure that your borders continually brim over with flowers and foliage |
| 11 | The pragmatist is more flexible , recognising that exceptions do arise and must be practically catered for . |
| 12 | The proclamation of George as King in August 1714 provoked little discontent , although some observers did notice that the celebrating was not that extensive either . |
| 13 | On certain nights all the ghosts do battle and the distant echoes of their screams and war-cries are born on the wind . |
| 14 | And Hitchcock 's films do demonstrate that a British filmmaker could learn from Hollywood , but yet create distinctive national films , and without breaking with the commercial filmmaking culture as Close Up 's writers proposed . |
| 15 | Although some dogs do adapt if they have a very placid nature , the majority carry real scars — and I 'm afraid leaving her for eight-hour stretches certainly is n't helping . |
| 16 | ‘ This made the dogs let go but they still could not control the animals which started to turn on them . |
| 17 | ‘ They still could not make the dogs let go and so they got in their car and drove at the dogs with headlights flashing , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 18 | However , the enormous diversity of objects within and between the collections does mean that a degree of flexibility is necessary to provide a sensible selection of fields that reflect the variation in object type . |
| 19 | The UCC 's Division of Communication meets yearly and feeds the major issues and needs to Kristine who then works with committees to help educate and work alongside congregations . |
| 20 | But those regulations do ensure that we , the populace , go about disposing of dead people in an orderly way . |
| 21 | In animals physical and emotional , if not mental , changes do occur but these have to be elicited by careful observation of the animal , as it is not easy for it to indicate directly how it feels , or how its perceptions and emotions have changed . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , great changes do occur and have been well documented . |
| 23 | Such changes do happen when we are dealing with a timescale as long as the evolutionary one . |
| 24 | Other things did exist but are no longer with us . |
| 25 | His Aristotelian adversary had to admit that things did appear that way when he repeated the observations for himself . |
| 26 | But problems do arise when attempting to test complete programs of several segments . |
| 27 | However , temporary problems do arise and then a filter can undoubtedly assist , particularly in the smaller pool where a natural balance is more difficult to establish . |
| 28 | For a time ‘ tumultuous thoughts like masterless Hell hounds did roar and bellow and make a noise within me … . |
| 29 | Traditions do change and adapt through the ages , but what is left is just as important to the community which upholds it . |
| 30 | At the ensuing parliament in April 1254 clerical proctors armed with plenary powers did attend and offered a grant but on a condition which the king found unacceptable : that he should remedy their grievances . |