Example sentences of "[num] did [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , it would be misleading to conclude from the relative momentum of change in the three companies that RX alone represents success , not least because all three did achieve significant business turnaround as a result of organizational realignment . |
| 2 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 3 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 4 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 5 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 6 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |