Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years . |
| 2 | The mermaid did indeed return to claim Lutey and it is said that every nine years hence , one of his descendants is lost at sea . |
| 3 | But heads do nevertheless need to say what has to be changed from time to time — and should see the need for change before their colleagues . |
| 4 | As a postscript to this , Paul 's wedding did finally come to pass . |
| 5 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 6 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 7 | Some pessimists have calculated that enormous exercise workouts would be needed in order to achieve even modest weight loss , but it is now recognized that exercise does effectively help to burn up calories by speeding up the body 's metabolic rate for some time afterwards . |
| 8 | Their abilities to do so seem to depend , and are related to , the organizational structures within which they operate and whether the owners of the paper are able to exercise their power speedily or not . |
| 9 | The IWC did however agree to renew until 2002 the status of the Indian Ocean as a whale sanctuary . |
| 10 | And if retailers do indeed start charging less for cash purchases than for those bought on credit cards , ensure that this is precisely what they are doing and not merely surcharging credit card users . |
| 11 | Between the death of Jane Austen and the appearance of Sketches by Boz the emphasis does however begin to shift from the greatest houses to those below them . |
| 12 | The queen 's apparent reasonableness does indeed seem to have paid off , and the granting of military commands to Dorset and his uncle met with no recorded opposition . |
| 13 | The queen 's apparent reasonableness does indeed seem to have paid off , and the granting of military commands to Dorset and his uncle met with no recorded opposition . |
| 14 | ‘ People do sometimes manage to leave their offices without anyone noticing . ’ |
| 15 | The government had better learn to reach compromises with its own MPs before it got into a pickle . |
| 16 | To produce the low scarps which wind across the Mercurian surface the radius of Mercury need only have decreased by a few tenths of a percent . |
| 17 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 18 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 19 | Contemporaries recognized it too , and although after 1474 there is no suggestion of outright ducal poaching , men from families with Percy affiliations did apparently continue to enter the duke 's service . |
| 20 | Contemporaries recognized it too , and although after 1474 there is no suggestion of outright ducal poaching , men from families with Percy affiliations did apparently continue to enter the duke 's service . |
| 21 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 22 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 23 | Gina did indeed start giving lessons of a kind . |
| 24 | Children do quite like to gather together , in fits and starts , to enjoy one another 's company , to find out how others live . |
| 25 | The descriptive aspect of the analysis does however appear to reflect administrative practice more accurately than the ideal of rational decision-making . |
| 26 | The mandatory penalty does indeed serve to mark out murder from other crimes , but whether the definition of murder is sufficiently refined to capture the worst killings , and only the worst killings , remains to be discussed below . |
| 27 | Direct experience does however seem to have convinced the most senior teachers in Oxfordshire of its professionalism and potency , whereas in Solihull the most senior were the least convinced . |
| 28 | True , Mr Taylor does now appear to have safeguarded the contractual rights of players who soon will be working in the new League for their old employers . |
| 29 | At the sub-atomic level however physics does now have to take into account the effects of the observer on the particles he observes . |
| 30 | In other words , all religion and morality are the product of the class struggle and communism does indeed intend to abolish eternal truths , to abolish all religion and to abolish all morality . |