Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To their credit , a few prisoners do manage to discover their loving , creative , expansive side — Jimmy Boyle being a celebrated example — but this does break the unspoken rule . |
| 2 | Some cleansers help loosen simple blackheads , but are unsuitable for whiteheads , inflamed pimples or cysts . |
| 3 | Some projects did attempt to establish trade union links at grassroots level : organisations like Coventry Workshop bring together people from a range of causes and struggles in a common endeavour to build connections and analyse the wider context . |
| 4 | Some birds do lose their way . |
| 5 | This is largely true , though some artists do use ‘ body colour ’ occasionally , especially solid white to give that additional accent such as highlights and sparkles of light on water which sometimes give the same results as scratching out . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , some patterns did emerge . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , some builders do maintain their own stores , particularly when the company is engaged in small works . |
| 8 | Our questionnaire form clearly insists that rates quoted must include VAT and landing fees , though we have noticed that some clubs do manage accidentally-on-purpose to leave these out . |
| 9 | However , some cases do involve indirect restraints . |
| 10 | Nowadays some cases do occur , almost always associated with prematurity , and the result can vary from light perception only to relatively good vision . |
| 11 | Thirdly , some proposals do warrant a more detailed examination with regard to their desirability and practicability . |
| 12 | As pointed out earlier , some schools did visit project schools in order to gain insights of use in planning their own proposals , and some were subsequently visited by yet other schools . |
| 13 | While some schools did evaluate in committee the development of the library in the context of the project — and it is clear that developments in pedagogy were attributed at least partly to the project — we were not made aware of any which specifically monitored the number of times children and teachers borrowed or read books purchased specifically with project funds . |
| 14 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |
| 15 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 16 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 17 | Anyway , some Jews did manage to escape the round-ups . |
| 18 | Despite a concomitant drop in household disposable incomes , some sectors did report significant increases in spending — during the third quarter of 1989 , new car registrations recorded 20-30 per cent rises above levels in previous years . |
| 19 | Some shops do keep supplements on the shelves without realising that the date has passed . |
| 20 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 21 | In a place like that it all depends how you get on with the screws : some lasses did take hell . |
| 22 | ‘ But I think a few rats did survive . |
| 23 | Some countries do use property taxes in this way . |
| 24 | He does not recognize that it is possible to alternate between the two according to the stage of industry development , and Gilbert and Strebel ( 1988 ) illustrate how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality . |
| 25 | Some companies do have genuine offers after April 5 because they 've begun a new accounting period and will be keen to impress their investors . |
| 26 | Some cancers do cut cholesterol levels . |
| 27 | However , some judges do seem prepared to accept that the public are now more aware of character merchandising and there may be a change in this aspect of passing-off before too long . |
| 28 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |
| 29 | However , this generalization hides the fact that many areas of the countryside are actually traversed by good main roads , even though some areas do lie well away from major transport networks . |
| 30 | Antenatal classes could be more sensitive to their younger members , and fortunately some classes do exist specifically geared towards this age group . |