Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
| 2 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |
| 3 | And of course you know there are twenty odd fronts at where they were fighting , and er they made big paly of this because er the people who did volunteer knew , there was a few volunteered , they they gave them er white bands to wear round the arm to show that they was members of the relief force you know . |
| 4 | Er so much so , you see that er er er people who did have employment in the industry would not , would not be seen talking to left-wing Labour party people , or members of the Communist party , because they readily understood , you know , that here was a risk that they were running , whereby they may indeed lo er er lose their employment . |
| 5 | Er but obviously you know , the the the courage and the the strength of the the people who did keep it going , erm really has achieved a lot . |
| 6 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 7 | At times , in the months following the return from Germany , he had actively hated it and all the people who did belong . |
| 8 | The people who did seem to be enjoying things ( although they did n't much like the film ) were those who , unlike Jane , were there on their own terms . |
| 9 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 10 | Now these people who did come as visitors went through all of this , and then they would spend the rest of the evening in the Mess . |
| 11 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 12 | The record number of people who did get involved , or who wanted to be kept in touch , generated a vast workload for the inquiry bureaucracy , in reality a handful of hard-pressed individuals . |