Example sentences of "[Wh pn] did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 2 | It was probably Thomas William Coke ( later the Earl of Leicester ) of Holkham Hall , Norfolk , on the other side of England , who did most to introduce the Devon elsewhere . |
| 3 | Close to the Inchnadamph Hotel , a monument commemorates the work of the two geologists who did most to unravel the secrets of these rock movements : Ben Peach and John Horne , colleagues of Archibald Geikie of the Geological Survey in Scotland in 1907 . |
| 4 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 5 | Instead it was Andy Roxburgh 's new kid on the block , Eoin Jess , who did most to bring the young supporters out of their seats . |
| 6 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 7 | Of those who did eventually end up in court , the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 8 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 9 | Perhaps the unemployed were the only people who did any work these days . |
| 10 | Although Elton Mayo is considered to be the pioneer of the human relations movement , Lewin was another important theorist who did much research on group dynamics and leadership styles . |
| 11 | The house was almost certainly designed by the popular Regency architect John Papworth , who did much work in Chigwell , for several different clients . |
| 12 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 13 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 14 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 15 | One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected . |
| 16 | But that teacher also turned out a lot of good scholars — some even passed the examination for grammar school , although not all those who did actually went . |
| 17 | Since we ca n't find out who did actually make it we ca n't sue anybody for all the costs that that involved in trying put it right . |
| 18 | Moreover , most users who did actually want to come off were reacting , not to heroin itself but the associated dangerous and stressful lifestyle . |
| 19 | On reading the works of Sylvia Plath , who did indeed live the life of suicide , I have noticed that her comments on impingement often seem to coincide with my own feelings at the time I was anorexic . |
| 20 | The stranger , who did indeed take Tullivers , was a young married woman called Phyllida Prior , who had a small son Jeremy to keep her company . |
| 21 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |