Example sentences of "[noun pl] did the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words did the dividend increase embody different and superior information to that published in the accounts ? |
| 2 | Certainly there is plenty in the literature about using cobalt-60 sources for sterilisation and DoE researchers found that spent reactor fuel rods did the job quite effectively .. |
| 3 | Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice , giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment . |
| 4 | One way is , of course , to ask how the subjects did the task since , after all , they had the experience of doing it . |
| 5 | His strip of mouth opened but his eyes did the laughing . |
| 6 | Only in the more militant republican districts did the army continue to be the overlord force in law and order matters . |
| 7 | There was er the who was called after a Frenchman who invented some type of lenses and er the MacKenzie who was one of the engineers did the building of Skerrymor one of the surveyors or something . |
| 8 | Only on the question of how assessment results should be presented in the light of socio-economic circumstances did the report lack credibility . |
| 9 | One group of miners did the cutting . |
| 10 | No you see , the women cleaners done the interior of the coaches , and the male carriage cleaners did the exterior , the brushed you see . |
| 11 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 12 | Only when he broke through into sight of the track and the buildings did the realisation hit him . |
| 13 | What terrors did the pit hold for traitors ? |
| 14 | Only in the mid-1980s did the Commission determinedly begin to tackle the problem of overproduction . |
| 15 | The dogs did the rest . |
| 16 | In very few education committees did the passing of the Act cause any change in the selection process at all ; in many the change was cosmetic . |
| 17 | And what sort of things did the education department as it was then , what sort of things were they doing in those days ? |
| 18 | We were all so busy making plans , living dreams , that somehow Clare and I — and perhaps Mother too — were blinded to the truth , so evident around us : the unemployment figures , the era of mass production , a new industrial revolution in which machines did the work of thousands of men ; even the fact that ‘ wireless ’ was no longer a novelty . |
| 19 | ‘ Blinkers did the job for him . |
| 20 | However , in only one of the 179 single-candidate constituencies did the candidate fail to win the required 50 per cent in first round voting . |
| 21 | Aberystwyth 's spinners did the damage with second teamer Alun Davies taking four-10 and Anthony Evans 3–28 . |
| 22 | What sort of referrals did the team get ? |
| 23 | But in what ways did the creation of the exchange system , and those elements of continuity and change , actually affect the image of youth ? |
| 24 | Nice girls saved everything until they were married and bad girls , well , bad girls did the opposite . |
| 25 | And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in . |
| 26 | How many leaps did the frog have to take before he was out of the ditch ? |
| 27 | In only 14 cases did the user ‘ volunteer ’ in the first instance to go to the Drugs Council . |
| 28 | In only a handful of cases did the interviewer have to direct the interview to any great extent , and then only in cases where the informant responded only in short phrases . |
| 29 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 30 | Always , outside the wire , the bored guards relieved each other at two hourly intervals while , inside , prisoners did the washing-up or quarrelled or went to sleep . |