Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [n mass] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further work on the short-term memory paradigm by Poizner , Bellugi and Tweney ( 1981 ) produced confirming results that deaf people do use serial processes in a way similar to hearing people . |
| 2 | Although many of the stories are exaggerated accounts , and were once thought to be only legends , there is now proof that giant squid do exist . |
| 3 | Wenger ( 1984 ) , in discussing her North Wales data , argues that elderly people do turn to their children for support , but they do so reluctantly . |
| 4 | What the neo-Darwinists have in their favour is almost irrefutable evidence arising from recent advances in the techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering which virtually prove that modern species did evolve from common ancestors . |
| 5 | Even if young people do obtain a home in the privately rented sector , it is nearly always a transient tenure whether they are married or not . |
| 6 | But Chinese people do have an inbuilt respect for the natural balance of things . |
| 7 | The latter is unacceptable because non-religious people do talk about the " spiritual " . |
| 8 | There is some doubt about whether historical data do show the existence of a regular cycle of approximately fifty years , but the idea has attracted much attention in the 1980s . |
| 9 | But why do Sharwood 's go to such trouble and expense when other people make do with so much less ? |