Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [Wh pn] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |
| 2 | One such case who did submit to continuous observation was reported from Ian Oswald 's laboratory in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | The high cost of the meeting , though , kept away many bright young people , and the older established scientists who did come presented familiar work . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |
| 7 | One deaf person who did come through to play a leading role in deaf affairs was David Fyfe . |
| 8 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 9 | While grudgingly accepting Mr Rosen 's line that there were some good teachers who did teach properly , he was quick to counter with the challenge that ‘ we could n't be sure that it was happening elsewhere ’ . |
| 10 | Whilst a little over a third of employers thought there was no difference , those employers who did state a preference were , in almost all cases , more likely to prefer other recruits to young people . |
| 11 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 12 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Those members who did manage to attend area sessions considered that learning from each other 's experiences and personal contact with regional officials were major benefits . |
| 15 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 16 | And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle . |
| 17 | Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power . |
| 18 | ‘ The only person who did catch a glimmer of the truth was poor Dame Frances . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The court heard many potential eye witnesses in the pub had been imtimated and one man who did give evidence claimed a hit man had been paid twenty thousand pounds to kill him . |
| 21 | The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales . |
| 22 | At the time , the red herrings were too numerous to tabulate , but one man who did receive the most meticulous scrutiny of Inspector Berret , was called Walter Candy . |
| 23 | The technical pensions literature of the early 1960s advised employers to leave women out of pension schemes and give ex gratia ( unfunded ) pensions to that dwindling minority of single women who did become long-serving employees ( Pilch and Wood , 1960 , p. 80 ) . |
| 24 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 25 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 26 | True , we were the two boys who did stand out from the other three by temper and temperament . |
| 27 | To the region 's Labour MPs who did support the Bill , the compliments of many ; a conscience brickbat to those ( my own included ) who just could not find time to do so . |
| 28 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |