Example sentences of "[conj] they did [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
2 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |
3 | Whether the preface to his treatise in which this comment was made was ever actually read by the society 's members is not known , although they did order two copies of his ‘ two publications on Farriery ’ . |
4 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
5 | It was easy for Draper and White to mock the church fathers for their naiveté on matters of natural philosophy , forgetting that they did have higher concerns — forgetting , too , that their naiveté often reflected the pagan wisdom of their day . |
6 | S so then the evidence is that they did know each other , begging what know exactly entails , but that 's not in dispute . |
7 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
8 | She said so I said , so they did do that ? |
9 | Yeah when I went in the ladies loo there was one woman in there and they did look nice |
10 | Since most employment rights are dependent upon the possession of a record of continuous service with a single employer , most casual workers would fail to qualify for most of these rights even if they did have dependent employee status . |
11 | But , alternatively , assuming that this was not so , and that the instrument did not cease to be a negotiable instrument , then , in my judgment , from the moment when the draft sent by Sir Richard Temple was cashed by the plaintiffs a trust was created as between Sir Richard Temple and the moneylenders in favour of the former , so that any money which the latter might receive upon the promissory note , if they did receive any , would be held by them in trust for him . … |
12 | As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame . |
13 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
14 | As these young people were already disturbed these factors can not be claimed to have predated disturbed behaviour , but they did exist prior to the appearance of psychotic-like disorders . |
15 | It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun . |
16 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
17 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
18 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
19 | But they did say four to five weeks on the coat did n't they ? |
20 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
21 | St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top . |
22 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
23 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |
24 | There was no sign of any sheep , but they did notice some strange-looking footprints in the earth by the house . |
25 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
26 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
27 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
28 | When they did employ this form it was , as at the Pantheon , a dome set upon circular walls which did not present great constructional problems ( 127 , 128 and 129 ) . |
29 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
30 | When they did get good they 'd be one of the biggest bands in the world , the Fish predicted . |